Temescal Valley, California

Area Profile

30,069 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Temescal Valley, in Riverside County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Housing affordability3841st of 4,223 cities measured48
ClimateTop 5% of 4,223 cities measured90
Physical resilience4143rd of 4,182 cities measured4
AccessTop 49% of 4,226 cities measured92
Economic stabilityTop 27% of 4,226 cities measured71
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.8 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 29% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

A typical July reaches 93°F and a typical January falls to 44°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
30,069
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$122,051
Top 10% nationally
Density
1,555/sq mi
19.3 sq mi of land
Median age
40.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Riverside County
California
Metro area
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
Nearest major airport
ONT
22 mi · Ontario Intl
Median home value
$710,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 77% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 90% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$11,270$122,051Top 10%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,888$49,200Top 18%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.5%Bottom 21%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute44.9 minTop 4%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher35.8%Top 23%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation60.9%Top 49%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,160Bottom 30%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,400Bottom 25%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024122k108k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $122,051 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides102,760$34,320
Stockers and Order Fillers77,160$43,200
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand69,820$46,060
Fast Food and Counter Workers51,310$42,280
Retail Salespersons41,270$36,720
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers40,230$60,580

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There are 24.7 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
24.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Dr. Bernice Jameson Todd ElementaryCorona-Norco Unified1,01826.1
Temescal Valley ElementaryCorona-Norco Unified83226.0
LuisenoLake Elsinore Unified81922.8
Woodrow Wilson ElementaryCorona-Norco Unified69624.0

61.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against California’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,938 takes 29% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.8 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
28.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,938
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$710,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.82Top 10%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate86.7%Top 28%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±7009,627Top 6%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$821$2,938Top 2%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$22,000$710,400Top 6%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income28.9%Top 8%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate1.2%Bottom 13%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

11 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 9.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 87, in the Moderate band, and about 147 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station RIVERSIDE MUNI AP, 13.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index174.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation9.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months111991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1001472024 calendar year
Median air quality index87.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing25°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
87
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
174
90th percentile index
Days above 100
147
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

4 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

WildfireHigh
Inland floodingHigh
EarthquakeHigh
LandslideModerate
Heat waveModerate
AvalancheModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, hail, winter weather, volcanic activity, drought, strong wind, hurricane, coastal flooding, tsunami.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Riverside County records 2.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 21.3 per 100,000 residents in Riverside County.

Homicide
2.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
21.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Riverside County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Temescal Valley rather than Temescal Valley itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

8 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 22 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Ontario IntlONT22 mi12,197 ft
San Bernardino IntlSBD27 mi10,000 ft
Long Beach (Daugherty Fld)LGB40 mi10,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
RiversideRiverside County319,06952vs Temescal Valley
San BernardinoSan Bernardino County222,72446vs Temescal Valley
FontanaSan Bernardino County214,16955vs Temescal Valley
Moreno ValleyRiverside County211,66648vs Temescal Valley
OntarioSan Bernardino County180,54752vs Temescal Valley
Rancho CucamongaSan Bernardino County175,41152vs Temescal Valley
CoronaRiverside County159,67055vs Temescal Valley
VictorvilleSan Bernardino County137,62743vs Temescal Valley
MurrietaRiverside County112,06453vs Temescal Valley
TemeculaRiverside County111,16755vs Temescal Valley
MenifeeRiverside County110,30555vs Temescal Valley
Jurupa ValleyRiverside County107,01154vs Temescal Valley

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Temescal Valley

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9288339,990$132,969