Palm Springs Outpost median real estate price is $434,049, which is less expensive than 88.0% of California neighborhoods and 42.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Palm Springs Outpost is currently $2,939, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.2% of California neighborhoods.
Palm Springs Outpost is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Cathedral City, California.
Palm Springs Outpost real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Palm Springs Outpost 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.
Palm Springs Outpost has a 9.4% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 60.5% of American neighborhoods). A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (9.4%), which can occur in some markets dominated by colleges or vacation homes. If you live here year round, you will find many of the homes or apartments are empty for all or a portion of the year.
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.
There are more people living in the Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (51.6%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Palm Springs Outpost (24.5%) than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 68.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Palm Springs Outpost is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 68.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood in Cathedral City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% 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 Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood, 48.4% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.9%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 68.4% of households. Some people also speak English (30.2%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood in Cathedral City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (68.4%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (1.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 38.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Palm Springs Outpost neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.2%) 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 (24.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.