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Desert Shores CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Desert Shores CDP is a Census CDP of 801 people across 0.70 square miles of land, in Imperial County. Median household income is $37,212, 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Desert Shores through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 801 with a margin of error of plus or minus 459, which is 57.3 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Desert Shores
What Desert Shores is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.7 sq mi
- Water area0.11 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,148 plus or minus 658
- County holding the largest share of its areaImperial County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Desert Shores
How many people live in Desert Shores
- Population801 plus or minus 459
- Median age47.4 plus or minus 12.3
- Population under 1885 plus or minus 92
- Share under 1810.6 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over169 plus or minus 108
- Share 65 and over21.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Households249 plus or minus 133
- Family households171 plus or minus 105
- Share of households that are families68.7 percent plus or minus 20.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Desert Shores
- Median household income$37,212 plus or minus $32,157
- Per capita income$24,524 plus or minus $6,298
- Civilian labor force407 plus or minus 267
- Employed391 plus or minus 269
- Unemployed16 plus or minus 24
- Unemployment rate3.9 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over664 plus or minus 365
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher63.0 percent plus or minus 13.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher2.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Desert Shores
- Housing units276 plus or minus 127
- Occupied units249 plus or minus 133
- Vacant units27 plus or minus 43
- Vacancy rate9.8 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Owner occupied249 plus or minus 133
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$178,600 plus or minus $65,108
- Single family units204 plus or minus 131
- Share single family73.9 percent plus or minus 33.0
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes72 plus or minus 50
- Median year structure built1983
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Desert Shores gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute391 plus or minus 269
- Commuting under 15 minutes9 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting under 15 minutes2.3 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more210 plus or minus 165
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more53.7 percent plus or minus 20.2
- Drove alone96.2 percent
- Carpooled3.8 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Imperial County, not Desert Shores
Imperial County context, not Desert Shores figures
These are Imperial County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Desert Shores measurements.
- Establishments in Imperial County2,677
- Employment at those establishments, Imperial County34,323
- Covered employment, Imperial County67,166
- Average annual pay, Imperial County$54,639
- Average weekly wage, Imperial County$1,051
- Housing units permitted, Imperial County253
- Of those, single family, Imperial County153
- County product, 2024, Imperial County$12,907,423,000
- County product change over the prior year, Imperial County-0.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Imperial County$40,926
Every figure in this section is published for Imperial County as a whole and is not a measurement of Desert Shores. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Desert Shores questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Desert Shores, California?
801, in 249 households. Desert Shores CDP covers 0.70 square miles of land, which is 1,148 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Desert Shores in?
Imperial County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Desert Shores?
$37,212. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $178,600. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Desert Shores figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Imperial County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Desert Shores.
Is zoning published for Desert Shores?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.