Moreno Valley, California

Moreno Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Moreno Valley added 5,057 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +1,149. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 86th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Moreno Valley is 5.8 times that size.

Moreno Valley covers 51.31 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 4,169 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Moreno Valley is denser than the typical town.

What county Moreno Valley is in

All of Moreno Valley's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Moreno Valley holds 8.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Moreno Valley

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Moreno Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92551, 92553, 92555, 92557. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Moreno Valley is

The Census internal point of Moreno Valley is at 33.923300, -117.205700. Sacramento, the capital, is 400.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Riverside, CA (323,757 people), 10.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 493 m (1,617 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Moreno Valley

At 33.92° N, Moreno Valley gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Moreno Valley daylight page.

Places near Moreno Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Loma Linda, 8.6 miles away, with 25,197 people.