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A town of 6,803, settled in 1915.
Nuevo grades D overall, ranked 645th of 841 in California, mostly because of health. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 82% of the country. One bright spot: the median household earns $113K. Nuevo’s mean commuting time is 39 minutes, above both the California town median (28 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). On walkability, just 77 of California’s 1,063 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 97% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top.
Where Nuevo’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Nuevo is from typical.
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Census counts: 1,628 in 1980, 6,733 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2024 and 4 maps from 1942 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Nuevo. Close and well known come first.
6 mi MuseumOrange Empire Railway Museum
39 mi MuseumRichard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
27 mi MountainSan Gorgonio Mountain
27 mi MountainSan Jacinto Peak
31 mi Stadium & arenaToyota Arena
9 mi LandmarkRiverside National CemeteryOrange Empire Railway Museum: The original uploader was Pretzelpaws at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum: The original uploader was Sorcha at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 · San Gorgonio Mountain: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0 · San Jacinto Peak: Wattewyl, CC BY 3.0 · Toyota Arena: jondoeforty1, CC BY 2.0 · Riverside National Cemetery: Sigris Lopez, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nuevo 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Nuevo.
Nuevo has a longer frost-free season than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Riverside and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Expected losses in Nuevo break down as 39% from earthquakes and 34% from inland flooding. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Nuevo after 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2007.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The public schools here belong to the Nuview Union school district. Its one school is below. Nuevo’s only public school teaches 554 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley View ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 554 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests
Against the 6,764 U.S. towns with household incomes like Nuevo’s, it is less healthy than 98%, so it trails even them.
Two in five adults have obesity in Nuevo. CDC measures, 32 in all: Nuevo beats California on 1 and trails on 22. In Nuevo, 27% of adults worry about having enough food, and 70% had a checkup this year.
| Nuevo | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 22% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 16% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | Nuevo | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.7% | 6.4% |
| More uninsured adults | 17.1% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Nuevo has 424 jobs for its 2,530 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 39.3 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
Half commute less than 21 miles. Employers in Nuevo added 231 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 424. Most people who work leave Nuevo to do it: just 2% work in town. The top destinations are Riverside (9%), Perris (8%) and Moreno Valley (7%).
| Nuevo | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $113,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 6.6% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Work from home | 10% | 14% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Among households in Nuevo, 88% own their home. Home values are up 1.5% over the year to September 2026.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The San Jacinto weather station, 10 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 315 days, longer than in 96% of U.S. towns. The San Jacinto weather station, 10 miles away, records that about 120 days a year reach 90°, more than in 98% of U.S. towns.
July afternoons reach 95°, January nights drop to 40° and snow is almost unheard of.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Nuevo’s density of trails is 0.3 miles per square mile. 1.9 miles of trail.
| Nuevo | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.5% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
3 within 15 miles of the center of Nuevo
About 4 of every 100 Nuevo residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
Census-designated place in California, United States
Nuevo (Spanish for "New") is a rural community located east of Lake Perris and the city of Perris in Riverside County, California. The population of the census-designated place (CDP) is 6,733 according to the 2020 census, up from 6,447 at the 2010 census.
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One town shares a border with Nuevo.
Lakeview has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Nuevo and Lakeview report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Nuevo with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Nuevo grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #645 of 841 in California. It grades C− for health and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. That is 6.4 years of the area's median household income ($89,662 across the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
