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Oronoque is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northern part of the town of Stratford in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.

As of the 2020 census, Oronoque had a population of 3,790, and it was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 1,860 households and 2,025 housing units in Oronoque.

Oronoque is bordered to the north by the city of Shelton, to the east by the Housatonic River, and to the south by the Merritt Parkway, and Connecticut Route 110 (Main Street) runs north-south through the community.

The CDP covers 2.31 square miles, of which 2.25 square miles is land, and sits at an elevation of about 190 feet.

Much of Oronoque is the Oronoque Village condominium community, a 55-and-older community of 929 homes built in the 1970s on former farmland and apple orchards, which helps explain why the CDP's median age in 2020 was 63.8 years and 48.0 percent of residents were 65 or older.

Oronoque Village became a 55-and-older community in 1989, its streets bear American Indian names, its home styles are named for American writers such as Thoreau, Emerson, Whittier and Wolcott, and the community has two clubhouses, three swimming pools and tennis and pickleball courts.

The administrative offices of Sikorsky Aircraft are in the eastern part of the CDP, between Route 110 and the Housatonic River, near the company's plant on Route 110 built in 1955.

Oronoque Village residents are social members of the adjoining Blackhawk Country Club and its 18-hole championship golf course, designed by Desmond Muirhead.

Oronoque uses the Stratford ZIP code 06614, and the town of Stratford had a population of 52,355 at the 2020 census.