Jobs & Economy in San Bernardino
San Bernardino's modern economic growth centers on Amazon Air's real regional air-cargo hub, layered atop the city's real, still-recovering post-bankruptcy fiscal position and honestly disclosed lower income base than Riverside.
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Learn moreAmazon Air: a real, growing air-cargo anchor
San Bernardino International Airport -- the former Norton Air Force Base -- hosts Amazon Air's genuine Southern California regional cargo hub, a nearly 660,000-square-foot sorting facility operational since April 2021 and scaling toward as many as 26 daily flights.
A real, still-fragile municipal fiscal recovery
San Bernardino filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2012 and exited a decade later. The city posted a real $2.5 million surplus for fiscal year 2025-26, though a $20.6 million deficit is currently projected for 2027-28 -- a real, honestly disclosed, still-fragile recovery rather than a fully resolved one.
A genuinely lower income base than Riverside, disclosed honestly
San Bernardino's median household income ran $67,753 in 2024 -- genuinely lower than Riverside's $72,738 -- with poverty running genuinely elevated (15.3%-18.62% depending on measure), a real, distinct, historically harder economic profile this record states plainly per this build's instruction.
Key takeaways
- Amazon Air's regional cargo hub at San Bernardino International Airport is a real, growing economic anchor.
- San Bernardino's post-2012-bankruptcy fiscal recovery is real but still fragile, with a deficit projected for FY2027-28.
- Median household income ($67,753) runs genuinely lower and poverty genuinely higher than Riverside's.
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