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Riverside County, California is the fourth largest county in California and the tenth largest in the United States. It’s about 180 miles wide and covers more than 7,300 square miles. The county is home to 2.4 million residents. Riverside County was created in 1893 from parts of San Diego and San Bernardino counties. The county’s name comes from the City of Riverside, which was named in 1871 when the Santa Ana River’s upper canal reached it. Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, which has 24 nationally registered historic sites and more than 100 city landmarks. It also offers a variety of museums, theaters, festivals, markets, and unique shopping experiences. Riverside the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is about 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Known for its citrus industry and as the city of arts and innovation, visitors and residents enjoy cultural activities including downtown museums, restaurants and performing arts centers.

Riverside is also more affordable than major Golden State cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco. Due to Riverside’s warm, dry climate, the average electricity rates are 33% lower than the California average. The Riverside Chamber of Commerce says that the real estate market’s growth is Riverside’s main economic driver. Riverside’s transportation, retail, employment, innovation and private investment all make up an attractive environment for businesses. Riverside has experienced $1.5 billion in private investment in the past five years while Riverside County’s retail market has been resilient. In 2021, employment gains were largest in leisure services, professional business services, private education and healthcare, and retail trade.

The Inland Empire, which includes Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, has a network of innovation centers that drive investment and job growth. The City of Riverside is committed to building inclusive partnerships for sustainable, resilient economic development through strategies to stimulate a favorable investment climate, welcome entrepreneurship, encourage industry and talent diversity, expand living wage jobs and support our unique quality of place. As a world-class city of Arts and Innovation, Riverside is the city of choice in Southern California: a place where people of diverse talents choose to work and live and where entrepreneurs and businesses choose to locate and invest. The City offers a rich agricultural heritage, unique architecture, affordable housing stock and business friendly environment that is unique to Southern California.

Anchored by two historic performing arts centers managed by Live Nation, downtown Riverside offers the best in nightlife and entertainment, all within steps of the Riverside Convention Center and downtown hotels. A lively restaurant, bar/pub and nightclub scene is a constant in downtown Riverside, with numerous annual festivals, including the famed six-week Festival of Lights (the Top Holiday Lighting event in the United States), the Lunar Fest, and Dicken’s Festival regularly enlivening downtown.

Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) provides both local and regional services throughout the region with 32 local routes, three CommuterLink express routes, on-demand GoMicro micro-transit service and Dial-A-Ride services using 277 vehicles. Metrolink is one of Southern California’s best ways to beat the commuter blues. Metrolink trains have comfortable seating, on board restroom facilities, bicycle racks, and are ADA accessible. RCTC owns and operates all of the nine Metrolink stations that serve Riverside County. Riverside–Downtown station is served by 14 Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange County Line trains (7 in each direction) each weekday, running primarily at peak hours in the peak direction of travel.

The Riverside University Health System - Medical Center, or RUHS-MC is a public teaching hospital located in Moreno Valley, California, operated by the County of Riverside. It is classified as a Level I Trauma Center. Riverside Community Hospital is a 517-bed facility and houses the largest Emergency Room and Level I Trauma Center in the Inland Empire at 62 beds. RCH is one of Riverside County’s only STEMI (heart attack) receiving centers and is a fully accredited Chest Pain Center. Centers of Excellence include the HeartCare Institute, offering invasive and non-invasive cardiac procedures, Cancer Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a Bariatric Center of Excellence. Kaiser Permanente in Riverside has 215 hospital beds with on site outpatient clinics, a 272,288 patient population and twelve physicians in the Department of General Surgery.