As the Inland Latino community grows, “so should investments in the organizations and initiatives aiming to close disparity gaps,” CIELO Fund Founding Chair Jesse Melgar said via email.

Compiled by UCR’s Center for Social Innovation, the study found that Latinos, with 2.37 million people, now make up 51.5% of the Inland population.

“Latino growth rates (in the region) are significantly higher than the Southern California average,” the study states.

Riverside, Moreno Valley, Corona, Fontana, San Bernardino and Ontario had the highest Latino populations in the Inland Empire, while the cities with the highest percentage of Latinos as part of their populations as a whole were Coachella, Jurupa Valley, Perris, Rialto, Colton and Ontario.

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