The 10 Worst Riverside Suburbs For 2023

The 10 Worst Riverside Suburbs To Live For 2023

We’ll get the ball rolling with Banning, the absolute worst place to live around Riverside according to the data.

And in the world of worst rankings, Banning beat the competition pretty handily thanks to scoring in the bottom 15% in three major categories. Income is the 2nd worst in the Riverside area, and to make matters worse, the city ranks 3rd worst when it comes to home values.

But hey, at least it’s cheap to live there. But there’s a reason for that… it’s Banning.

You won’t feel bad about not having a great income for the area. There aren’t a bunch of places to spend your money anyway.

Welcome to San Jacinto. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 25.0 miles to Riverside. Income levels here are the 7th lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $62,144 a year, which only goes so far even on a shoestring budget.

But on the bright side, there are a lot of fast food joints in the area.

Back up the highway we go for the third worst Riverside suburb you can live in. You might have expected to see San Bernardino on here. While the cost of living is low, your entertainment and work options are limited. And that’s an understatement.

In terms of numbers, it’s in the worst 15% for insurance, and the adult high school dropout rate is poor compared to other Riverside suburbs.

But at least there are lovely parks to bring the kids during the day.

If you live in Hemet, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the lowest Riverside suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Riverside. Remember, we looked at 54 cities for this study.

Hemet is about 26.8 miles to downtown.

Perris has the distinction of being a Riverside suburb. Which means that’s about all it has going for it.

All snarkiness aside, Perris has the 9th lowest home values in the metro Riverside area, where the median price is $333,900. The median income is $172,375.

Perris has an unemployment rate of 7.17% which ranks 16th worst.

Lakeland has 110,401 residents that probably know it’s a pretty crummy place to live when you look at the data. (Or, if you’ve ever been there, you don’t need to look at the data.)

Incomes are towards the bottom, and the poverty rate sits at 15.084474950600828%.

Ah, Colton. You rank as the 7th worst place to live around Riverside.

It’s the place with the 9th most out of work residents in the Riverside metro area (7.36%).

Rialto is a city about 12.0 miles from Riverside, but Riverside probably wishes it was further away. It ranks as the 8th worst burb for 2018.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a worse place to live. Rialto has the 7th most uninsured people, 13th worst incomes, and has the 2nd highest unemployment rate (10.09%) in the entire Riverside metro area.

Homes only cost $350,000 for a reason. That’s cheap for Riverside standards.

If you absolutely have to live near Riverside, then Jurupa Valley might be a place for you to consider as it’s only the 9th worst Riverside suburb.

About 7.21% of residents are out of work.

Rounding out the ten worst Riverside suburbs to call home is Montclair.

Located 19.7 miles outside the city, Montclairs is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 7th highest unemployment rate (7.76%), and poverty is far above the area average.