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Riverside County growth

9,697 new homes permitted in 2025

Census Building Permits Survey, 2025

New homes permitted in Riverside County

Housing units the county's permit offices authorized, by year, from the Census Bureau.

New housing units permitted in Riverside County
PeriodNew homesIn single-family homes
Jan–Sep 20265,5804,535
Jan–Sep 20257,3044,757
20259,6976,399
20249,5988,016
202312,9538,836
202210,2848,461
20219,2647,835
202010,1038,895
20198,9927,002
  • Sep 2026860
  • Aug 2026393
  • Jul 2026588
  • Jun 2026931
  • May 2026555
  • Apr 2026858
  • Mar 2026608
  • Feb 2026532
  • Jan 2026443
  • Dec 2025489
  • Nov 2025693
  • Oct 2025469

New homes permitted each month, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

People in Riverside County

  • Population2,544,916Census Population Estimates · July 1, 2025
  • Change since 2020+120,470 (+5.0%)July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 · Census Population Estimates
  • New homes per 1,000 residents3.82025 permits per 1,000 people on July 1, 2025 · Census
  • Median household income$93,0742020-2024 · Census ACS 5-year, ±$1,015

Jobs in Riverside County

  • Jobs in the county846,070Annual average 2025, all industries, by place of work · BLS QCEW
  • Change since 2020+124,144 (+17.2%)2020 to 2025 annual averages · BLS QCEW
  • Average weekly wage$1,1752025, all industries · BLS QCEW

Home values in Riverside County

Change in the price of homes sold or refinanced more than once (the FHFA repeat-sales index).

  • Home prices, 1 year+1%2024 to 2025 · FHFA House Price Index
  • Home prices, 5 years+54%2020 to 2025 · FHFA House Price Index

Land in Riverside County

Our own figures from the county roll and the county's recorded sales.

  • Vacant land85,710 vacant-coded on the county rollCounty roll · Oct 11, 2026

Growth in nearby counties

Imperial CountyOrange CountySan Bernardino CountySan Diego County

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About these numbersSources, dates and how these figures are built

New homes

U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2019-01 to 2026-09; annual files 2019-2025, posted May 14, 2026; the monthly files through Sep 2026, posted Oct 27, 2026. New housing units authorized by building permits, reported plus imputed. A month is the figure in that month's file; a year is the annual file, which adds late and corrected reports, so twelve months need not add up to the year. Public domain.

People

U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025, July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025, posted Mar 26, 2026. Public domain.

Income

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, 2020-2024 (2024 dollars), posted Jan 29, 2026. Median household income; printed at a coefficient of variation of 30% or less. Public domain.

Jobs

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2020-2025 annual averages, posted Aug 21, 2026. All industries, all ownerships, jobs covered by unemployment insurance; place of work. Public domain.

Home values

FHFA House Price Index (all-transactions), annual county and five-digit ZIP indexes, 2025, posted Mar 31, 2026. Public domain.

Land

Groundwork's map of the county roll and the county's own recorded sales: the same figures, gates and dates as the county page.

Data edition

Figures as of Oct 27, 2026. Area figures, not any one parcel's.