Metro area · California

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA is a metropolitan area of 2 counties in California, home to 4,769,007 residents. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 27 out of 100 (low), ranking #674 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in California it ranks #23 of 34. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), firearm deaths (low) and broadband subscriptions (high). It ranks worst on median Air Quality Index (high), days with unhealthy air (high) and high ozone days (high).

27Low
Quality-of-life score
#674 of 925 metro and micro areas
California
#23 of 34 in CA
Population
4,769,007 (2025)
Land area
27,277 mi²
Density
174.8 /mi²
CBSA code
40140

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety44#519/924
  • Economy54#430/925
  • Housing1#919/925
  • Health69#290/925
  • Healthcare50#465/923
  • Environment1#907/917
  • Education32#629/925
  • Infrastructure67#306/925
  • Community15#790/925
  • Leisure & amenities27#680/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Riverside CountyCentral county382,544,916
  2. San Bernardino CountyCentral county292,224,091

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. ChinoPrincipal city92,652
  2. CoronaPrincipal city159,670
  3. OntarioPrincipal city180,547
  4. Palm DesertPrincipal city51,990
  5. RedlandsPrincipal city73,375
  6. RiversidePrincipal city319,069
  7. San BernardinoPrincipal city222,724
  8. TemeculaPrincipal city111,167

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Riverside319,069
  2. San Bernardino222,724
  3. Fontana214,169
  4. Moreno Valley211,666
  5. Ontario180,547
  6. Rancho Cucamonga175,411
  7. Corona159,670
  8. Victorville137,627
  9. Murrieta112,064
  10. Temecula111,167
  11. Menifee110,305
  12. Jurupa Valley107,011
  13. Rialto104,143
  14. Hesperia100,775
  15. Chino92,652
  16. Indio91,950
  17. Hemet91,326
  18. Perris80,511
  19. Upland79,257
  20. Chino Hills77,927
  21. Apple Valley75,473
  22. Redlands73,375
  23. Lake Elsinore72,461
  24. Eastvale70,633

Other metro and micro areas in California

Areas based in California, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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