The Orange County economy is in for a boost this year.
That’s the thrust of a report released Wednesday from the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, which forecasts that job growth in 2015 will outpace both the nation and California.
The state’s third most-populous county should add nearly 47,000 jobs in 2015, an increase of 3.1% from 2014.
That rate is an acceleration from a 2.5% growth rate last year and comes from strong, expected gains in hospitality, business services, health care and construction.
Several factors are driving growth, said Esmael Adibi, director of the school’s Anderson Center.