Riverside, California

**Riverside** is a city in California. It is the county seat of Riverside County. The city, which got its name from being close to the Santa Ana River, is the first place in California in which people sold a lot of citrus fruit. In 2020, about 315,000 people lived in Riverside. The city is the 59th most populous city in the United States and the 12th biggest city in California.

Because houses cost less money in Riverside than most cities in Southern California, people have been slowly moving there. This makes traffic bad as people from Riverside drive to work in Orange County and Los Angeles.

Riverside has a few schools, including La Sierra University, California Baptist College, and the University of California, Riverside. The city also has Riverside Municipal Museum, the California Museum of Photography, and the California Citrus State Historic Park. In 1873, the Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree was planted in Riverside, and it is one of two original orange trees in California. The historic Mission Inn is another popular place.

Riverside is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area.

German, Irish, English, Italian and European are the most common ancestries. Spanish and Chinese are the most common foreign languages.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Riverside, California
- **settlement type**: List of municipalities in California, City
- **image flag**: Flag of Riverside, California (2020).svg
- **image seal**: Seal of Riverside, California.png
- **motto**: City of Arts & Innovation
- **image map**: Riverside County California Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Riverside Highlighted.svg
- **map caption**: Location of Riverside County within the State of California
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: United States
- **subdivision type1**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision name1**: California
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in California, County
- **subdivision name2**: Riverside County, California, Riverside
- **established title2**: Municipal corporation, Incorporated
- **established title3**: Chartered
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total sq mi**: 81.54
- **area total km2**: 211.18
- **area land sq mi**: 81.23
- **area land km2**: 210.38
- **area water sq mi**: 0.31
- **area water km2**: 0.80
- **elevation ft**: 827
- **elevation m**: 252
- **population as of**: 2020 United States Census, 2020
- **population total**: 314998
- **population rank**: List of United States cities by population, 59th in the United States
12th in California
- **population density sq mi**: 3877.85
- **population density km2**: 1497.28
- **population urban**: 2,276,703 (US: 19th)
- **population density urban km2**: 1,444.4
- **population density urban sq mi**: 3,741.1
- **population metro**: 4599839 (US: 13th)
- **timezone**: Pacific Time Zone, Pacific
- **utc offset**: −8
- **timezone dst**: Pacific Daylight Time, PDT
- **utc offset dst**: −7
- **postal code type**: ZIP codes
- **postal code**: 92501–92509, 92513–92519, 92521–92522
- **area code type**: North American Numbering Plan, Area code
- **area code**: 951
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS code
- **blank1 name**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS feature IDs
- **blank1 info**: ,