THE INLAND EMPIRE: BY THE NUMBERS
Our Region
We’re Young and Diverse
- 4.5 million: Population of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
- 120+: Number of people moving into the IE every day.
- 7 million: Projected population of the IE within 30 years.
- 1 in 9: Proportion of California residents who live in the Inland Empire.
- 27,000: Number of square miles comprising the IE – larger than 10 states. San Bernardino County is the largest geographic county in the U.S.
- 52: Number of cities in the two- county region.
- 56: Number of School Districts in the two-county region.
- 832,000: Number of K-12 students attending school in the two-county region.
- 32: Median age in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties – five years younger than the California average and six years younger than the U.S. average.
- 26%: Percentage of the population in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties under the age of 18. The state and national averages are less than 23%.
- 68%: Percentage of IE residents who are people of color.
- 51%: Percentage of IE residents who are Latinx.
- 41%: Percentage of IE households in which a language other than English is spoken at home.
- 20%: Percentage of adults in the IE who have a four-year college degree or higher (versus 32% for California and 30% for the nation as a whole).
Sources for Data
U.S. Census Quick Facts: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts
California Department of Education Data & Statistics : https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/
U.S. Conference of Mayors Research: https://www.usmayors.org/category/reports/
Southern California Association of Governments Research: https://scag.ca.gov/DataAndTools/Pages/Home.aspx
UC-Riverside Center for Economic Forecasting: https://ucreconomicforecast.org
UC-Riverside Center for Social Innovation: State of Immigrants: https://socialinnovation.ucr.edu/research/immigrants/
Real Cost Measure
United Ways of California recently released a county-by-county analysis of the amount of income required to meet basic needs for a given household type in a specific county. The analysis showed San Bernardino and Riverside Counties continuing to fall behind when it comes to individuals and families being able to meet basic costs of living.
36%: Percentage of IE households that fall below the Real Cost Measure (lack income to meet their basic needs). This is 3 percentage points higher than the California average.
369,301: Number of households in the IE that fall below the Real Cost Measure.
$68,945: Income needed to sustain a family of four (2 adults, 1 infant, 1 school-age child) in Riverside County. Such a family would need more than 3 full-time minimum-wage jobs to achieve economic security.
$51,922: Income needed to sustain a family of four (2 adults, 1 infant, 1 school-age child) in San Bernardino County. Such a family would need more than 2 full-time minimum-wage jobs to achieve economic security.
42%: Percentage of San Bernardino County households that spend more than 30% of their income on housing (Riverside County: 41%).
Source for Data
United Ways of California: https://www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost
Our Nonprofits
- 11,000: Number of nonprofit organizations in the Inland Empire.
- $115 million: Annual contributions from philanthropic foundations to IE nonprofits as of 2016 – an increase of 85% from 2013 ($61.3 million).
- $98 million: Annual foundation investment coming in from outside the region as of 2016 – more than double the 2013 total ($46 million).
- $25.55: Per capita foundation spending on nonprofits in the Inland Empire.
- $262.99: Per capita foundation spending on nonprofits throughout California.
- $2.5 million: Amount raised from individual donors in the IE during one-day annual web-athons (Give Big Riverside County, Give Big San Bernardino County) over a five-year period.
- 67%: of Inland Empire nonprofits with annual revenues below $25,000.
Sources for Data
U.S. Census Quick Facts: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/
California Foundation Center: https://california.foundationcenter.org/
San Bernardino County Community Indicators Report: https://www.iegives.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SB_2019-Report.ONLINE.pdf