Pomona’s AI automation agency.

Pomona is one of the larger cities in Los Angeles County, with about 151,000 residents at the 2020 Census, sitting roughly 30 miles east of downtown LA where the basin meets the Inland Empire. It is a heavily Latino city with a large bilingual and immigrant population, and its economy is diversified rather than tied to a single sector. Education, healthcare, events, and logistics each carry real weight, which makes Pomona a working, multi-industry market rather than a one-employer town.

Education is the headline. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is one of only three polytechnics in the 23-campus CSU system, enrolls about 27,196 students, and is a Hispanic-Serving Institution with a majority-Latino undergraduate base. The 2025 CSU Economic Impact Report credits Cal Poly Pomona with about $1.5 billion in regional industry activity and more than 11,000 jobs. Western University of Health Sciences adds 3,600-plus health-professions students across nine colleges, and Pomona Unified School District serves more than 20,000 students across Pomona and Diamond Bar.

Healthcare, events, and logistics round out the base. Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is a 427-bed not-for-profit trauma center with roughly 1,900 employees, and the WesternU Patient Care Center sees more than 10,000 patients a year. The 543-acre Fairplex runs the LA County Fair, the NHRA drag-racing nationals at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, and 500-plus events a year, and is a confirmed LA28 Olympic venue. On the industrial side, Pomona sits on the Greater LA and Inland Empire freight corridor near the ports of LA and Long Beach, with Keystone Automotive Industries headquartered in the city and 3PLs such as WSI, IEDS Logistics, and Prologis running distribution centers.

Every one of those operations runs paperwork and front-desk volume that AI can carry. University and school registrars field admissions and records questions under FERPA, hospitals and clinics coordinate patient access under HIPAA and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, event and hospitality teams handle reservations and seasonal surges, and logistics operators key freight and customer documents by hand. Pomona businesses deploying AI for student and patient access, document processing, after-hours customer service, and back-office workflow are pulling ahead of peers still doing it all manually, with the Cal Poly Pomona engineering and computing talent pool on their doorstep.