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City in California, United States

Moreno Valley

$541kMedian Home
View on Map· Pop. 210k· Elev. 1,631 ftWikipedia

Moreno Valley is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and is part of the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Riverside County by population and one of the Inland Empire's population centers. The city's population was 208,634 at the 2020 census. Moreno Valley is also part of the greater Los Angeles area.Wikipedia

Nickname: MoVal
About the RegionCalifornia

California contains multitudes in a way that makes any single characterization misleading. The Bay Area and Los Angeles operate as global city-states, with housing markets, income levels, and cultural gravity that put them in direct competition with London and Tokyo rather than with other American metros. Both have lost net domestic migrants to lower-cost states for most of the last decade — primarily to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada — though both also continue to be net draws for international migration and maintain labor markets of extraordinary depth and diversity.

But California's geography is vast. The Central Valley offers costs of living that rival the Midwest with driving distance to the Sierra Nevada; the North Coast is one of the most beautiful and least-crowded stretches of American coastline; and the smaller cities of the inland valleys represent genuinely different lifestyle profiles. For remote workers who can absorb the state income tax and housing cost, the combination of climate diversity, outdoor access, and cultural institution density remains difficult to replicate anywhere in the world.

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Current Conditions

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Cost of Living

Housing
$2k/mo
Median Rent
$541k
Median Home Price
Rent burden34% of income
Household Income
$83k
Median annual
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Livability

School Rating
4.9/10
Internet
No internet coverage data yet.
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Demographics

Population210k
Altitude1,631 ftabove sea level
Median Age32 yrs
College Educated17%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home6%of workforce
Poverty Rate13%

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