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Desert Center CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Desert Center CDP is a Census CDP of 144 people across 30.42 square miles of land, in Riverside County. Median household income is $73,393, 54.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.0 m.
66 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 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 Center through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 144 with a margin of error of plus or minus 90, which is 62.5 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 Center
What Desert Center is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area30.42 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land5 plus or minus 3
- 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.
Desert Center
How many people live in Desert Center
- Population144 plus or minus 90
- Median age45.5 plus or minus 17.3
- Population under 1817 plus or minus 23
- Share under 1811.8 percent plus or minus 14.0
- Population 65 and over37 plus or minus 26
- Share 65 and over25.7 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Households57 plus or minus 29
- Family households30 plus or minus 19
- Share of households that are families52.6 percent plus or minus 19.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Desert Center
- Median household income$73,393 plus or minus $66,823
- Per capita income$26,408 plus or minus $8,061
- Civilian labor force59 plus or minus 42
- Employed51 plus or minus 33
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 12
- Unemployment rate13.6 percent plus or minus 17.9
- Adults 25 and over122 plus or minus 82
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.5 percent plus or minus 86.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.9 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.6 percent plus or minus 11.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Desert Center
- Housing units199 plus or minus 59
- Occupied units57 plus or minus 29
- Vacant units142 plus or minus 50
- Vacancy rate71.4 percent
- Owner occupied31 plus or minus 21
- Renter occupied26 plus or minus 18
- Ownership rate54.4 percent plus or minus 24.3
- Median owner-occupied home value$216,100 plus or minus $79,757
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,135 plus or minus $684
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.6 percent plus or minus 20.3
- Single family units64 plus or minus 31
- Share single family32.2 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes135 plus or minus 49
- 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 Center gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute47 plus or minus 32
- Commuting under 15 minutes34 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting under 15 minutes72.3 percent plus or minus 53.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more6 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more12.8 percent plus or minus 34.3
- Drove alone60.8 percent plus or minus 29.3
- Carpooled5.9 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked25.5 percent plus or minus 26.7
- Worked from home7.8 percent plus or minus 12.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Desert Center
SBA loans in Desert Center (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$5,000,000
- Average approval$5,000,000
- Median approval$5,000,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$5,000,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported1
- Jobs per approval1.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Riverside County, not Desert Center
Riverside County context, not Desert Center 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 Desert Center 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 Desert Center. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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 Center questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Desert Center, California?
144, in 57 households. Desert Center CDP covers 30.42 square miles of land, which is 5 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Desert Center 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 Desert Center?
$73,393. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $216,100. Median gross rent is $1,135 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Desert Center businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $5.0 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $5,000,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Desert Center, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Desert Center borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Desert Center. only 1 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.
Are the county figures on this page Desert Center 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 Desert Center.
Is zoning published for Desert Center?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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