Counties / California / Riverside County

Riverside County, CA

FIPS 06065 · population 2,478,600 · part of Riverside, CA

$609k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
Direct county rent answer

What does rent cost in Riverside County, CA?

The latest county-level Zillow ZORI is $2,591 per month in 2026-06. It is a typical asking-rent index across rental types—not an arithmetic average, signed lease or quote for one property.

County Zillow ZORI$2,5912026-06 · up 2.3% year over year
County ACS gross rent$1,901ACS 2024 5-year · occupied-renter survey
HUD two-bedroom FMR$2,201FY2026 · administrative standard
HUD Fair Market Rent by bedroom count in Riverside County
BedroomsHUD monthly FMRGeographyMeasurement boundary
Studio$1,692Riverside County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
1 bedroom$1,777Riverside County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
2 bedrooms$2,201Riverside County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
3 bedrooms$2,912Riverside County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
4 bedrooms$3,514Riverside County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.

Zillow asking rent, ACS gross rent and HUD FMR describe different housing universes. They remain separate and no metro, city or neighboring-county value replaces missing county evidence.Zillow pulled 2026-07-26 · HUD pulled 2026-07-26

The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$609k
▼ 1.0% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$2,591
▲ 2.3% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
5.1%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$2,201
market rent is 1.18x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

The annual signals disagree
FHFA five-year cumulative+54.3%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−1.0%FHFA HPI2025+1.3%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-08-02.
Owner-reported value$557k
Surveyed gross rent$1,901
Rent burden 30%+59.4%
Median year built1990
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
10.8%vacant
869,414estimated housing units
Occupied tenure30.9% renter
owner 69.1%renter 30.9%
Structure mix74.8% single-family
Single-family 74.8%20+ units 5.3%Mobile home 8.7%Other 11.2%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs846,329▲ 0.7% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments93,375annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,175▲ 2.3% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities27.4% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+0.7%WEEKLY WAGE+2.3%Trade, transportation, and utilities27.4%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-08-02. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

Resident income

How local income has compounded

BEA per-capita personal income divides all personal income by the county population. It is broader than wages, but it is not household income or a measure of what renters can afford.

Per-capita personal income19692024
Per-capita personal income history for Riverside CountyA line chart of annual BEA per-capita personal income from 1969 through 2024.$0k$30k$60k196919972024$4k$56k
Nominal annual dollars; not adjusted for inflation. A rising line can reflect wage, business-income, transfer-income and investment-income changes together.
Renter affordability

Who carries the heaviest rent burden

HUD CHAS separates renter households by income relative to local HAMFI. Moderate burden means housing costs above 30% through 50% of income; severe burden means more than 50%.

Share of renter households in each income band2018-2022
Renter cost burden by HAMFI income band in Riverside CountyFive horizontal bars show moderate and severe housing cost burden shares among renter households in each HUD income band.0%25%50%75%100%At or below 30% HAMFI43,74579.9% burdened30–50% HAMFI38,16086.5% burdened50–80% HAMFI49,24568.4% burdened80–100% HAMFI26,05547.1% burdenedAbove 100% HAMFI78,94513.4% burdened
Moderate: >30% to 50%Severe: >50%
Each percentage uses HUD’s published subtotal for that income band. For disclosure, HUD keeps 0 as 0, publishes 1–7 households as 4 and rounds 8 or more to the nearest 5. Independently rounded categories can differ from their displayed sum and are not forced into a percentage.
Direct local rental evidence

Recent leases and rental-market liquidity in Riverside County, CA

These Apartment List observations match the exact county Census code 06065. They are kept separate from Zillow asking rent, Census occupied-home rent and wider metro measures.

Direct recent-lease rent history

Monthly overall-rent index; missing observations are not filled from another geography.

$2,058$1,981$1,9042021-082026-07
Recent-lease rent$1,9492026-07 · +0.4% year over year
Rental vacancy6.4%2026-07 · -0.1 percentage points year over year
Time on marketn/an/a
County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Riverside County presents an income-versus-resilience tension: investors able to validate property-level flood and operating costs should investigate, while thin-margin or heavily leveraged buyers should be cautious. In Zillow’s 2026-06 county observation, median home value fell 0.96% year over year, while median asking rent was $2,591 monthly and reported gross yield was 5.11%. FHFA’s 2025 repeat-transaction HPI showed a 54.34% cumulative five-year gain. It is not a home value and cannot be blended with Zillow’s different-vintage measure.

02Housing economics

The rent is measured market asking rent; HUD’s $2,201 two-bedroom Fair Market Rent is instead a payment standard and must not be substituted into yield. Gross yield is a price-to-market-rent measure before property tax, insurance, maintenance, vacancy, financing, and capital spending. The 0.78% effective property-tax rate is a carrying-cost reference, but parcel assessments, insurance quotes, and operating statements are not published. Their absence prevents net operating income, debt-service coverage, or a cash-flow conclusion.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s 2026-06 MLS offers listing-market evidence, not sale evidence: median listing price was down 1.88% year over year, median marketing time was 59 days, and 17.17% of listings had price reductions; active inventory also declined. Asking prices, visible supply, marketing time, and reductions do not establish buyer demand or closed-sale value by themselves. Net migration was positive and incoming movers had higher average AGI than outgoing movers, a county-level demand signal. Non-occupant borrowers made 2,053 of 25,608 purchase mortgages, so investor competition is present but bounded by total purchase flow. The 2025 QCEW is annual covered employment at county workplaces, not resident employment; Trade, transportation, and utilities is its largest disclosed private supersector.

04Risk & next checks

Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled annual building-value loss is 0.49%; this model is not a parcel flood determination or an insurance quote. The record lacks property type, submarket rents, vacancy, closed-sale comps, flood-zone and claims history, insurance deductibles, replacement cost, and financing terms. Verify each before deciding whether reported gross yield survives carrying costs and hazard exposure; county aggregates cannot establish an asset’s value, insurability, or exit liquidity.

County ZIP rental landscape

How asking rent and renter pressure vary inside Riverside County, CA

This view uses 12 direct Zillow ZIP markets matched to Census ZCTAs. Each ZIP is assigned by its largest HUD residential county share; this is not an exhaustive county inventory.

Selected ZIP range$1,750$3,183Zillow asking-rent index
Monthly spread$1,433highest minus lowest selected ZIP
Observed burden range47.7%62.5%ACS renter households paying 30%+
Renter households covered91,282across the selected ZCTAs
01 · ASKING RENT LADDERDirect ZIP ZORI
Horizontal bars compare Zillow asking-rent indexes across the selected direct-evidence ZIP set.92882$3,18392563$2,89192879$2,64292562$2,47592201$2,45492505$2,39892234$2,39092503$2,37792507$2,37392553$2,26892240$1,97892543$1,750
02 · PRESSURE MATRIXRent × observed burden
Each point is one selected ZIP and ZCTA match. Horizontal position is Zillow asking rent and vertical position is the ACS renter cost-burden share.65.0%60.0%55.1%50.2%45.2%925079255392201925039288292505928799223492562922409254392563Zillow asking-rent index →ACS burden share →
03 · BENCHMARK GAPZORI vs HUD 2BR
Bars show the percentage difference between the Zillow blended asking-rent index and the local HUD two-bedroom standard. Their housing universes differ.92882+144.6%92563+131.3%92879+120.0%92201+111.5%92505+109.0%92234+108.6%92503+108.0%92507+107.8%92553+103.0%92240+89.9%92562+89.0%92543+79.5%
WHAT THE LOCAL DISTRIBUTION SAYS

Across the selected direct-evidence set, June 2026 Zillow ZORI runs from $1,750 in 92543 to $3,183 in 92882, a $1,433 spread. Its selected-set median is $2,394, below Riverside County's $2,591 county-level ZORI. The decision question is therefore not whether rent is one countywide figure, but whether a target unit's asking-rent signal, bedroom count, and lease terms fit the applicant's income and current listing options. ZORI is a typical observed asking-rent index, not a quoted rent for a particular property. The displayed spread is useful for framing a search budget, but it neither identifies the unit mix behind either endpoint nor guarantees that a comparable unit is presently listed.

Three series serve different purposes and should remain separate. Zillow is the current observed asking-rent index for the direct set. ACS 2024 five-year median gross rent ranges from $1,401 to $2,625; it is a survey estimate and differs in timing and construction from ZORI. HUD's FY2026 two-bedroom FMR is $2,201 in all but 92562, where it is $2,780; it is a bedroom-specific administrative standard, not an asking-rent estimate. The provided ZORI-to-two-bedroom-FMR ratio ranges from 79.5% to 144.6%, indicating that the broad ZORI signal sits below or above that standard without making the measures interchangeable.

ACS also supplies the burden and vacancy evidence, which is a separate trade-off rather than a rent ranking. Among the shown ZCTAs, 47.7% to 62.5% of renter households report rent burden at or above 30% of income, versus 59.4% for the county ACS estimate. Reported vacancy ranges from 2.3% to 16.0%, compared with the county's 10.8%. The high-vacancy end of this selected set is not automatically low-burden, so neither measure alone resolves affordability or current unit availability. These five-year survey estimates describe different housing dimensions; they do not show that vacancy causes rent burden, or that a current listing will be available.

Coverage and geography constrain the comparison. The display contains 12 direct ZORI ZIP/ZCTA matches selected from 49 eligible matches, covering 91,282 renter households; it is not an exhaustive county inventory or a description of any neighborhood. ZIPs may cross county lines, though the supplied HUD crosswalk assigns each displayed ZIP to Riverside County by its largest residential-address share, which is 100% for every displayed label. Census ZCTAs are statistical areas rather than USPS delivery ZIPs, and ACS values are 2024 five-year estimates. Before applying any benchmark to a property, verify advertised rent, bedroom count, lease term, utilities, fees, income qualification, availability date, and exact address and county assignment against relevant program rules.

Selected ZIP evidence

Keep each source universe visible

49 ZIP profiles passed the county gate; the 12 with the most renter households are shown.

ZIP / ZCTAZillow asking rentACS gross rentHUD 2BRBurden 30%+VacancyIncome screenHUD county share
92507$2,373$1,895$2,20158.2%7.8%$95k100.0%
92553$2,268$1,994$2,20162.5%2.8%$91k100.0%
92201$2,454$1,401$2,20155.2%14.7%$98k100.0%
92503$2,377$1,884$2,20159.0%3.9%$95k100.0%
92882$3,183$2,107$2,20157.5%3.0%$127k100.0%
92505$2,398$2,048$2,20156.6%5.1%$96k100.0%
92879$2,642$2,215$2,20156.2%2.6%$106k100.0%
92234$2,390$1,601$2,20158.7%16.0%$96k100.0%
92562$2,475$2,344$2,78061.1%4.5%$99k100.0%
92240$1,978$1,462$2,20160.4%10.7%$79k100.0%
92543$1,750$1,423$2,20159.1%8.5%$70k100.0%
92563$2,891$2,625$2,20147.7%2.3%$116k100.0%
READ BEFORE USING

The 12 displayed direct-evidence matches were selected from a larger eligible set and are not exhaustive. Zillow ZORI is a current asking-rent index, whereas ACS ZCTA measures are 2024 five-year survey estimates and need not describe the same housing units.

ZIP display assignment follows the largest HUD residential-address county share. Although every shown match has a 100% Riverside County share in this packet, ZIPs can cross county lines and ZCTAs are statistical areas rather than USPS delivery ZIPs; neither is an exact property boundary.

SOURCE LEDGERCensus ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stockACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and incomeACS 2024 5-year ZCTA · pulled 2026-08-08HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standardFY2026 FMR · pulled 2026-07-26HUD-USPS ZIP-to-county residential-address crosswalkHUD-USPS 2026Q1 · pulled 2026-08-09Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rentscounty ZHVI/ZORI 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-26Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rentsZORI ZIP 2026-06 · pulled 2026-08-08
Cities & communities

Where people live within Riverside County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Riverside city319.1KMoreno Valley city211.7KCorona city159.7KMurrieta city112.1KTemecula city111.2KMenifee city110.3KJurupa Valley city107KIndio city92K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

75 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Riverside cityIncorporated place
    319,069
  2. 02
    Moreno Valley cityIncorporated place
    211,666
  3. 03
    Corona cityIncorporated place
    159,670
  4. 04
    Murrieta cityIncorporated place
    112,064
  5. 05
    Temecula cityIncorporated place
    111,167
  6. 06
    Menifee cityIncorporated place
    110,305
  7. 07
    Jurupa Valley cityIncorporated place
    107,011
  8. 08
    Indio cityIncorporated place
    91,950
  9. 09
    Hemet cityIncorporated place
    91,326
  10. 10
    Perris cityIncorporated place
    80,511
  11. 11
    Lake Elsinore cityIncorporated place
    72,461
  12. 12
    Eastvale cityIncorporated place
    70,633
Show 63 more places
  1. 13
    Beaumont cityIncorporated place
    56,266
  2. 14
    San Jacinto cityIncorporated place
    55,180
  3. 15
    Cathedral City cityIncorporated place
    52,267
  4. 16
    Palm Desert cityIncorporated place
    51,990
  5. 17
    French Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    45,269
  6. 18
    Palm Springs cityIncorporated place
    45,070
  7. 19
    Coachella cityIncorporated place
    43,307
  8. 20
    La Quinta cityIncorporated place
    38,707
  9. 21
    Wildomar cityIncorporated place
    37,277
  10. 22
    Desert Hot Springs cityIncorporated place
    33,200
  11. 23
    Banning cityIncorporated place
    31,093
  12. 24
    Temescal Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    30,069
  13. 25
    Norco cityIncorporated place
    25,054
  14. 26
    East Hemet CDPCensus-designated place
    20,257
  15. 27
    Mead Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    19,286
  16. 28
    Valle Vista CDPCensus-designated place
    18,602
  17. 29
    Rancho Mirage cityIncorporated place
    17,563
  18. 30
    Blythe cityIncorporated place
    17,396
  19. 31
    Woodcrest CDPCensus-designated place
    17,368
  20. 32
    El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)Census place
    13,129
  21. 33
    Lakeland Village CDPCensus-designated place
    12,236
  22. 34
    Canyon Lake cityIncorporated place
    11,119
  23. 35
    Calimesa cityIncorporated place
    10,902
  24. 36
    Home Gardens CDPCensus-designated place
    10,506
  25. 37
    Good Hope CDPCensus-designated place
    8,816
  26. 38
    Highgrove CDPCensus-designated place
    8,366
  27. 39
    Bermuda Dunes CDPCensus-designated place
    7,971
  28. 40
    Thousand Palms CDPCensus-designated place
    7,720
  29. 41
    Homeland CDPCensus-designated place
    7,584
  30. 42
    Garnet CDPCensus-designated place
    7,382
  31. 43
    Mecca CDPCensus-designated place
    7,184
  32. 44
    Nuevo CDPCensus-designated place
    6,803
  33. 45
    Cherry Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    6,668
  34. 46
    Desert Palms CDPCensus-designated place
    6,579
  35. 47
    Lake Mathews CDPCensus-designated place
    6,527
  36. 48
    El Cerrito CDPCensus-designated place
    5,325
  37. 49
    Indian Wells cityIncorporated place
    4,871
  38. 50
    Winchester CDPCensus-designated place
    4,555
  39. 51
    Oasis CDPCensus-designated place
    4,051
  40. 52
    Idyllwild-Pine Cove CDPCensus-designated place
    3,957
  41. 53
    Sage CDPCensus-designated place
    3,781
  42. 54
    Desert Edge CDPCensus-designated place
    3,778
  43. 55
    North Shore CDPCensus-designated place
    3,515
  44. 56
    Green Acres CDPCensus-designated place
    3,382
  45. 57
    Coronita CDPCensus-designated place
    2,763
  46. 58
    Meadowbrook CDPCensus-designated place
    2,627
  47. 59
    Vista Santa Rosa CDPCensus-designated place
    2,333
  48. 60
    Romoland CDPCensus-designated place
    2,268
  49. 61
    Sky Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    2,255
  50. 62
    Lakeview CDPCensus-designated place
    2,062
  51. 63
    Anza CDPCensus-designated place
    1,898
  52. 64
    Cabazon CDPCensus-designated place
    1,887
  53. 65
    Thermal CDPCensus-designated place
    1,800
  54. 66
    Warm Springs CDPCensus-designated place
    1,673
  55. 67
    March ARB CDPCensus-designated place
    1,273
  56. 68
    Lake Riverside CDPCensus-designated place
    1,262
  57. 69
    Whitewater CDPCensus-designated place
    1,181
  58. 70
    Indio Hills CDPCensus-designated place
    1,117
  59. 71
    Mesa Verde CDPCensus-designated place
    1,016
  60. 72
    Aguanga CDPCensus-designated place
    961
  61. 73
    Ripley CDPCensus-designated place
    476
  62. 74
    Desert Center CDPCensus-designated place
    144
  63. 75
    Mountain Center CDPCensus-designated place
    45

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.486% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.78%

$4,348 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+1,546

54,646 in · 53,100 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$5,237

$76,491 arriving · $71,254 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors8.0%

2,053 of 25,608 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings7,436▼ 5.6% year over year
Median days on market59▲ 0.0% year over year
Listings price-reduced17.2%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 1.9% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Riverside, CA

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Riverside County2,478,600$609k$2,5915.1%inland flooding
San Bernardino County2,197,104$554k$2,4895.4%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Flood insurance, deductibles, repairs, or loss exposure could absorb the pre-cost gross yield.
  2. MLS listing-market softening may not provide closed-sale support for an exit valuation.
  3. County rent, migration, and workplace employment evidence may not match the selected property’s submarket, tenant base, or operating costs.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Can HUD Fair Market Rent be used as the county's asking-rent estimate?

No. It is a two-bedroom payment standard; the record separately publishes measured median asking rent.

Do Realtor.com MLS metrics establish a closed-sale value?

No. They describe active listing prices, visible supply, marketing time, and seller price reductions rather than completed transactions.

What does the QCEW employment measure represent?

It represents annual covered jobs at workplaces in the county, not resident employment or an unemployment measure.