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Cathedral City city, California: commercial real estate data.
Cathedral City city is a Census city of 52,267 people across 22.48 square miles of land, in Riverside County. Median household income is $73,572, 66.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 45 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $21.6 m.
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Cathedral City
What Cathedral City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area22.48 sq mi
- Water area0.26 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,325
- County holding the largest share of its areaRiverside 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.
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How many people live in Cathedral City
- Population52,267
- Median age41.1
- Population under 1810,440
- Share under 1820.0 percent
- Population 65 and over9,923
- Share 65 and over19.0 percent
- Households18,979
- Family households12,002
- Share of households that are families63.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Cathedral City
- Median household income$73,572
- Per capita income$36,551
- Civilian labor force26,613
- Employed25,015
- Unemployed1,598 plus or minus 340
- Unemployment rate6.0 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Adults 25 and over37,552
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Cathedral City
- Housing units22,599
- Occupied units18,979
- Vacant units3,620
- Vacancy rate16.0 percent
- Owner occupied12,616
- Renter occupied6,363
- Ownership rate66.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$453,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,601
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.1 percent
- Single family units14,947
- Share single family66.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4,973
- Share in buildings of two or more22.0 percent
- Mobile homes2,446
- Median year structure built1988
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Cathedral City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute22,149
- Commuting under 15 minutes6,787
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.6 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,275
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more14.8 percent
- Drove alone71.3 percent
- Carpooled14.8 percent
- Public transport1.1 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Walked1.4 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home9.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA 7(a) lending to Cathedral City borrowers
- Approvals45
- Gross approval$21,608,400
- Average approval$480,187
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,687,500
- Largest approval$3,080,000
- Jobs supported250
- Jobs per approval5.6
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full8
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises8.9 percent
- Distinct lenders20
- Distinct industries by NAICS36
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
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SBA 504 lending to Cathedral City borrowers
- Approvals13
- Gross approval$16,700,000
- Average approval$1,284,615
- Median approval$778,000
- Largest approval$4,458,000
- Jobs supported280
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs5
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
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Flood programme status in Cathedral City
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060704
- Currently effective map date08/28/08
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Riverside County, not Cathedral City
Riverside County context, not Cathedral City figures
These are Riverside County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cathedral City measurements.
- Establishments in Riverside County46,244
- Employment at those establishments, Riverside County687,526
- Covered employment, Riverside County840,433
- Average annual pay, Riverside County$59,734
- Average weekly wage, Riverside County$1,149
- Housing units permitted, Riverside County9,598
- Of those, single family, Riverside County8,016
- County product, 2024, Riverside County$134,756,586,000
- County product change over the prior year, Riverside County6.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Riverside County$80,685
Every figure in this section is published for Riverside County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cathedral City. 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.
- 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
Cathedral City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cathedral City, California?
52,267, in 18,979 households. Cathedral City city covers 22.48 square miles of land, which is 2,325 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cathedral City in?
Riverside 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 Cathedral City?
$73,572. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $453,100. Median gross rent is $1,601 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cathedral City businesses?
45 7(a) approvals totalling $21.6 m, across 20 lenders, median approval $100,000, plus 13 504 approvals worth $16.7 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cathedral City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cathedral City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cathedral City. only 8 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Cathedral City in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Cathedral City appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060704, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Cathedral City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Riverside 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 Cathedral City.
Is zoning published for Cathedral City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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