Grand

Riverside, CA

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Grand - Riverside, CA Area Guide

This small, safe neighborhood offers excellent parks and easy access to Downtown Riverside

Convenient Suburban Outdoors Great Location Shopping

Located a few blocks from Downtown Riverside, Grand is a small neighborhood with excellent parks and quick access to an abundance of amenities. The area feels suburban with Spanish and ranch-style single-family homes and mid-rise apartments. With warm weather a majority of the year, residents take full advantage of the many neighborhood parks in the area. After having a picnic or harvesting veggies in the community garden at Ryan Bonaminio Park, you’ll find residents walking over to nearby Mount Rubidoux Park to hike up the mountain for sweeping views of the city. There is a small shopping plaza along Grand Avenue with cafes, local restaurants, and specialty shops but for more options, residents only have to travel a few minutes outside of the neighborhood. Grand is convenient to several commercial centers like the Riverside Plaza, an outdoor shopping center with diverse eateries, popular clothing brands, and a movie theater. After hours, residents flock to breweries, speakeasies, gastropubs, and clubs catering to any lifestyle or taste shaping a vibrant nightlife scene. Once you move into your new home, check out a show at the Fox Performing Arts Center or admire local art at the Riverside Art Museum. With all of these conveniences, it’s not hard to see why this neighborhood is named Grand.

Rent Trends

As of May 2026, the average apartment rent in Grand is $1,326 for a studio, $1,524 for one bedroom, $1,803 for two bedrooms, and $2,258 for three bedrooms. Apartment rent in Grand has decreased by -11.5% in the past year.

  • Studio

  • 425 sq ft

    Average Sq Ft

  • $1,326/month

    Average Rent

  • 1 BR

  • 654 sq ft

    Average Sq Ft

  • $1,524/month

    Average Rent

  • 2 BR

  • 895 sq ft

    Average Sq Ft

  • $1,803/month

    Average Rent

  • 3 BR

  • 1,112 sq ft

    Average Sq Ft

  • $2,258/month

    Average Rent

Getting Around

Fairly Walkable

Walkability

40 / 100

Some Public Transit

Transit

40 / 100

Very Drivable

Drivability

80 / 100

Very Bikeable

Bikeability

80 / 100

Daily Essentials

Supermarket Within a 20 Minute Walk

Groceries

50 / 100

Fair Restaurant Variety Nearby

Restaurants

50 / 100

Limited Café Variety Nearby

Cafes

30 / 100

Fair Variety of Shops Nearby

Shopping

50 / 100

Recreation

Exceptional Amount of Park Space Nearby

Parks

100 / 100

Fair Wellness Amenity Variety Nearby

Wellness

50 / 100

Local Vibe

Mostly Calm Atmosphere

Vibrancy

20 / 100

Limited Nightlife Variety Nearby

Nightlife

20 / 100

Not Noisy

Quiet Score

90 / 100

Points of Interest

Parks and Recreation

  • Louis Robidoux Nature Center
  • UCR Botanic Gardens
  • California Citrus State Historical Park
  • Hidden Valley Nature Center
  • Mary Vagle Nature Center

Airports

  • Ontario International
  • John Wayne/Orange County

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Methodology

† Our analysis of utilities, groceries, transportation, healthcare, home prices, and other goods and services is sourced from the Cost of Living Index, a respected benchmark published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) that provides a thorough overview of living expenses across different regions.

Rent data is provided by CoStar Group’s Market Trend reports. As the industry leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, and news, CoStar conducts extensive research to produce and maintain a comprehensive database of commercial real estate information. We combine this data with public record to provide the most up-to-date rental information available.

Consumer goods, services, and home prices are sourced from the Cost of Living Index published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER). The data on this page is updated quarterly. It was last published in February 2026.

Demographic information comes from Neustar and combines detailed address data with U.S. Census and American Community Survey statistics to produce reliable local estimates.