Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates median real estate price is $475,837, which is less expensive than 85.0% of California neighborhoods and 37.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates is currently $2,418, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 79.6% of California neighborhoods.
Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Cathedral City, California.
Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) small apartment buildings and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.3% in Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 56.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.4% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 23.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Did you know that the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 65.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 73.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood in Cathedral City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood, 36.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.3%), and 11.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 73.3% of households. Some people also speak English (22.2%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood in Cathedral City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (65.6%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 41.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Desert Retreat Estates / Rancho Vista Estates neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (18.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.