Home GardensCA
A town of 10,506.
Is Home Gardens a good place to live?
Home Gardens grades C overall, ranked 332nd of 841 in California, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. The median household earns $96K and it is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Home Gardens’ typical journey to work is 37 minutes, above both the California town median (28 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Homes are expensive, about $539K for a typical one and 6 times the Riverside metro’s $90K median household income.
What makes Home Gardens stand out
Where Home Gardens beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Home Gardens Academy | K–8 | 961 |
| Ysmael Villegas Middle | 6–8 | 1,136 |
99% of working residents leave Home Gardens for work
Where Home Gardens’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Home Gardens grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Home Gardens is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Disneyland and 90 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Home Gardens. Close and well known come first.
Big draw24 mi Theme parkDisneyland17.3M visitors a year
Big draw28 mi Theme parkKnott's Berry Farm4.5M visitors a year
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaAngel Stadium of Anaheim
Big draw24 mi Theme parkDisney California Adventure10.1M visitors a year
Big draw35 mi MuseumOldest McDonald's restaurant
22 mi Stadium & arenaHonda CenterPhoto credits
Disneyland: HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Knott's Berry Farm: Phydend at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Angel Stadium of Anaheim: Staff Sgt. Chad McMeen, Public domain · Disney California Adventure: CrispyCream27, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oldest McDonald's restaurant: Northwalker, CC0 · Honda Center: Arnold C (Buchanan-Hermit), Attribution
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Moving to Home Gardens: who provides what
Home Gardens is unincorporated, so Riverside County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Home Gardens.
Home Gardens has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns, but it scores below Riverside and its other neighbors on health and has commutes longer than most of California.
Very high risk in Home Gardens, with inland flooding at the top
Of the losses FEMA expects in Home Gardens, 57% come from inland flooding and 42% from earthquakes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On state tests, Home Gardens’ schools beat 70% of California districts
Public schools: the Alvord Unified school district. One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysmael Villegas MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,136 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Most of Home Gardens’ workers head elsewhere: there are 0.3 jobs for each of them
The average commute for its 5,100 working residents takes 36.8 minutes, against 28.7 across California. Jobs based here grew from 1,036 in 2013 to 1,624.
Most people who work leave Home Gardens to do it: just 1% work in town. Employers in Home Gardens added 588 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,624. Also worth knowing: the share of workers in Home Gardens who work remotely from home: 5.8%. For half of commuters, work is under 19 miles away.
| Home Gardens | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 5.8% | 14% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.2% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $96,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Home Gardens trails 68% of U.S. towns
All 3 graded neighbors score healthier than its C, from Riverside (C+) to El Sobrante (A−). Against the 9,123 U.S. towns with household incomes like Home Gardens’s, it is less healthy than 88%, so it trails even them.
18% of adults report frequent mental distress in Home Gardens. Of 32 CDC measures, Home Gardens beats the California average on 1 and trails it on 15. In Home Gardens, 26% of adults worry about having enough food, and 28% say their health is fair or poor.
| Home Gardens | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 69% | 72% | 79% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 16% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 22% | 19% |
| What stands out | Home Gardens | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.7% | 6.4% |
| More uninsured adults | 18% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Home Gardens’ year
The Riverside Fire Stn 3 weather station, 9 miles away, records that about 110 days a year reach 90°, more than in 95% of U.S. towns. January nights average 43.2°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.9°.
The January low for Home Gardens comes to 43°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Home Gardens | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 43°F | 40°F | 22°F |
| July high | 92°F | 89°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Home Gardens sells for about $486K
In Home Gardens, the midpoint rent is $2,065 a month. 78% of Home Gardens households are owner-occupiers.
| Home Gardens | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,065 a month | $1,895 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 78% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Home Gardens
Colleges nearby
12 within 15 miles of the center of Home Gardens
About 7 of every 100 Home Gardens residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
About Home Gardens
Census-designated place in California, United States
Home Gardens is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Inland Empire region of Riverside County, California, United States. It is within the City of Corona's sphere of influence. The population was 11,203 at the 2020 census, down from 11,507 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 669 ft
Home Gardens’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Home Gardens.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Gardens | #332 | C | D | — | B+ | C |
| Corona | #381 | C | D− | C | B+ | B |
| El Sobrante | #296 | C+ | D− | — | B | A− |
| Riverside | #568 | D | D | D | B | C+ |
Home Gardens and El Sobrante report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Home Gardens with a neighbor →
Questions about Home Gardens
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Home Gardens, CA a good place to live?
It grades C for health and B+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Home Gardens, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $539,000, 29% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.