The 10 Worst Riverside Suburbs

The 10 Worst Riverside Suburbs To Live For 2024

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 2nd 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 Bernardino. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 15.2 miles to Riverside. Income levels here are the 5th lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $61,323 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 Jacinto 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 Perris, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the 14th lowest Riverside suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the 12th worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Riverside. Remember, we looked at 54 cities for this study.

Perris is about 14.2 miles to downtown.

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

All snarkiness aside, Hemet has the 4th lowest home values in the metro Riverside area, where the median price is $425,611. The median income is $189,306.

Hemet has an unemployment rate of 9.55% which ranks worst.

Colton has 53,959 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 15.430405493664743%.

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

It’s the place with the 25th most out of work residents in the Riverside metro area (6.0%).

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, 15th worst incomes, and has the 2nd highest unemployment rate (9.27%) in the entire Riverside metro area.

Homes only cost $539,398 for a reason. That’s cheap for Riverside standards.

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

About 5.38% of residents are out of work.

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

Located 6.2 miles outside the city, Jurupa Valleys is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 14th highest unemployment rate (6.79%), and poverty is far above the area average.