Patricia Lock Dawson (Independent) has been Mayor of Riverside since 1 Jan 2020. In Aug 2026 the unemployment rate was 5.2% of the labour force, 1.9 percentage points higher than when Patricia Lock Dawson took office in January 2020; California's moved +1.0 percentage point over the same months. Among the 116 cities with a year or more of figures, Riverside ranks 14th on pay growth and 100th of 106 on the fall in violent crime. Over the same months California's real GDP per person rose 2.2% a year; Riverside's rose 1.4%; the gap was widest in 2021, +2.4% against +7.5%. Under Rusty Bailey (2012 to 2020) the unemployment rate fell 7.5 percentage points.

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