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