22 Facts About Inland Empire

Inland Empire is a metropolitan area and region inland of and adjacent to coastal Southern California, centering around the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside, and bordering Los Angeles County to the west.

Term "Inland Empire" is documented to have been used by the Riverside Enterprise newspaper as early as April 1914.

The boundaries of the Inland Empire are nebulous, but the region is generally defined as the cities of western Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, adjacent to the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Inland Empire has been referred to as the 909, after one of the region's most used area codes.

Some sources such as the Los Angeles Times have referred to Riverside County and San Bernardino County as the Inland Empire, mirroring the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area.

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The CTTC defines the Inland Empire as being bounded by Los Angeles County and Orange County on the west and San Diego County on the south, stretching as far north as the Victor Valley area and as far east as Idyllwild in the San Jacinto Mountains.

Inland Empire area is one of the least educated areas of the state with the lowest average in annual wages in the country.

Unemployment rate in the Inland Empire has been consistently over the national average since 2007.

The Inland Empire was declared the nation's worst example of sprawl according to a study by Smart Growth America in 2002.

In 2019, the "bedroom community" nature of the Inland Empire led to a plan to increase the construction of new housing in coastal cities preferentially versus building more housing in the Inland Empire areas.

Air pollution, or suspended particulate matter locally generated from the increased number of automobiles in the area, from point sources such as factories, dust carried into the air by construction activity, and the contribution of similar pollutants from the Los Angeles area has regularly caused the Inland Empire to be at, or near, the bottom of many air quality ratings.

The Inland Empire population grew as a result of affordable housing, at least relative to the rest of Southern California, but most of the higher paying jobs are located in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties.

Inland Empire is the chosen route for connecting California High-Speed Rail service to San Diego.

Between 2000 and 2010 Inland Empire's population expanded by 970, 000 or 30 percent, and between 2010 and 2020 it expanded by a further 375, 000 or another 9 percent to reach 4.

In 2012, Obama repeated this feat and again carried both counties, and the two Inland Empire counties have stayed in the Democratic column in presidential elections since.

Inland Empire has a Jewish community, and additionally a Jewish American community is in and around the Sun City neighborhood of Menifee.

Various locations in the Inland Empire provide venues for cultural performances and entertainment.

Inland Empire dubbed it Studio Z and began making recordings that eventually led to the founding of Zappa's group The Mothers of Invention.

Inland Empire is the largest metropolitan area in the United States without a major professional sports team.

Inland Empire is ranked 26th in the national radio market as a stand-alone market.

Some famous films shot in the Inland Empire include Executive Decision, U Turn, Erin Brockovich, and The Fast and the Furious.

Ann Lerner, Albuquerque's film liaison, told the L A Times about the AMC cable TV series Breaking Bad producers wanted to film the series in California's Inland Empire but switched to New Mexico because of New Mexico's tax incentives.