2026 OCAP State of the Child Report

ECONOMIC WELL-BEING

Number and Percent of Riverside County Children Under 18 Receiving CalWORKs 2015-2016 to 2024-2025

Percent of Children Under 18 Receiving CalWORKs by Age Group 2024-2025

12.2 74,743

Under 5 5 to 12 13 to 17

75k

70,087

70k

67,795

11.4

63,506

11.0

65k

60,582

10.3

60k

9.9

24.8

53,817 54,815

55k

9.2

46.2

9.0

49,964

48,994

50k

8.1

8.3

45,681

29.0

45k

7.6

40k

0

2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25

Percent of Children Under 18 Receiving CalWORKs (by City of Residence) 2025

1.1 - 3.4 3.5 - 5.9 6.0 - 8.8 8.9 - 14.0 14.1 - 21.5 Percent Receiving CalWORKs

14

4

9

10

2

25

1

20

18

23 2 1 5

8

6

4

26

22

24

21

11

13

12

5

17

7

16

15

3

28

19

27

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1 Banning..................13.4 2 Beaumont...............5.9 3 Blythe...................20.8 4 Calimesa.................4.0 5 Canyon Lake ............2.6 6 Cathedral City..........8.8 7 Coachella...............10.8 8 Corona....................4.9 9 Desert Hot Springs..21.5 10 Eastvale..................2.3

11 Hemet....................19.5 12 Indian Wells ............. 11.1 13 Indio.......................11.4 14 Jurupa Valley ...........6.5 15 La Quinta ................5.7 16 Lake Elsinore............ 7.6 17 Menifee...................4.8 18 Moreno Valley......... 11.5 19 Murrieta..................3.4 20 Norco.......................5.1

21 Palm Desert............. 7.3 22 Palm Springs...........14.0 23 Perris ..................... 11.4 24 Rancho Mirage.........4.6 25 Riverside ..................8.1 26 San Jacinto.............12.7 27 Temecula.................2.7 28 Wildomar................. 6.7

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Census ACS 5-year estimates (published annually from 2016 through 2023), Table B09001 “Population Under 18 Years by Age,” for Riverside County & Riverside County Department of Public Social Services Riverside County Department of Public Social Services Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 5-Year Estimates, Table B09001

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