Cathedral City, California

Demographics

Racial and ethnic composition

{| class="wikitable"

!Race / Ethnicity <small>(NH = Non-Hispanic)</small>

!Pop 1980

!Pop 1990

!Pop 2000

!Pop 2010

!style="background-color: #ffffb3;"|Pop 2020

!% 1980

!% 1990

!% 2000

!% 2010

!style="background-color: #ffffb3;"|% 2020

|White alone (NH)

|2,941

|17,134

|17,908

|16,531

|style='background: #ffffe6; |14,778

|71.21%

|56.95%

|41.99%

|32.29%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |28.70%

|Black or African American alone (NH)

|25

|618

|1,049

|1,108

|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,108

|0.61%

|2.05%

|2.46%

|2.16%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.15%

|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)

|14

|155

|231

|228

|style='background: #ffffe6; |268

|0.34%

|0.52%

|0.54%

|0.45%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.52%

|Asian alone (NH)

| rowspan="2" |24

| rowspan="2" |924

|1,502

|2,449

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,929

| rowspan="2" |0.58%

| rowspan="2" |3.07%

|3.52%

|4.78%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |5.69%

|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)

|20

|47

|style='background: #ffffe6; |53

|0.05%

|0.09%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.10%

|Other race alone (NH)

|10

|57

|39

|69

|style='background: #ffffe6; |250

|0.24%

|0.19%

|0.09%

|0.13%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.49%

|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)

|586

|683

|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,214

|1.37%

|1.33%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.36%

|Hispanic or Latino (any race)

|1,116

|11,197

|21,312

|30,085

|style='background: #ffffe6; |30,893

|27.02%

|37.22%

|49.97%

|58.76%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |60.00%

|Total

|4,130

|30,085

|42,647

|51,200

|style='background: #ffffe6; |51,493

|100.00%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, Cathedral City had a population of 51,493. The population density was . The racial makeup of Cathedral City was 36.9% White, 2.4% African American, 1.9% Native American, 6.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 35.0% from other races, and 17.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 60.0% of the population.

The census reported that 99.2% of the population lived in households, 0.4% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0.3% were institutionalized. 100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.

There were 18,174 households, of which 31.9% included children under the age of 18. Of all households, 44.0% were married-couple households, 8.2% were cohabiting couple households, 25.9% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present, and 21.9% had a male householder with no spouse or partner present. About 26.6% of households were one person, and 15.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.81. There were 11,928 families (65.6% of all households). reported that Cathedral City had a population of 51,200. The population density was . The racial makeup of Cathedral City was 32,537 (63.5%) White (32.3% Non-Hispanic White), 1,344 (2.6%) African American, 540 (1.1%) Native American, 2,562 (5.0%) Asian, 55 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 12,008 (23.5%) from other races, and 2,154 (4.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 30,085 persons (58.8%).

The Census reported that 50,905 people (99.4% of the population) lived in households, 263 (0.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 32 (0.1%) were institutionalized.

There were 17,047 households, out of which 6,574 (38.6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 7,589 (44.5%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,291 (13.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,176 (6.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,054 (6.2%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 779 (4.6%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 4,292 households (25.2%) were made up of individuals, and 2,259 (13.3%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.99. There were 11,056 families (64.9% of all households); the average family size was 3.67.

The population was spread out, with 13,856 people (27.1%) under the age of 18, 4,906 people (9.6%) aged 18 to 24, 12,948 people (25.3%) aged 25 to 44, 12,127 people (23.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,363 people (14.4%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.2 males.

There were 20,995 housing units at an average density of , of which 10,769 (63.2%) were owner-occupied, and 6,278 (36.8%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 4.2%; the rental vacancy rate was 11.0%. 30,236 people (59.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 20,669 people (40.4%) lived in rental housing units.

Income and poverty

During 2009–2013, Cathedral City had a median household income of $44,406, with 20.5% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

Economy

Cathedral City Auto Center

The Cathedral City Auto Center, situated along the Highway 111 commercial corridor, is a major automotive regional center in the Coachella Valley. The center features 9 dealerships representing 16 manufacturers.

A cornerstone of the center is Jessup Auto Plaza, a family-owned dealership founded in 1938. Originally opened as Plaza Motors, it is one of the oldest continuously operating automotive businesses in the region and moved to its current 13-acre Cathedral City campus in 2001.

Parks and recreation

Date Palm Country Club and golf course, designed in 1967 and opened in 1971, has an 18-hole "executive style" facility designed by Ted Robinson, ASCCA. It features of golf from the longest tees for a par of 58. The course rating is 54.9/57.2 and it has a slope rating of 90/93. It is landscaped in Bermuda Greens and includes lakes and sand traps. It includes the 175 yard 8th hole, which has an accurate tee shot over a lake. The Phil Harris Golf Classic was held there for many years from the 1940s to until the death of Phil Harris in 1994. The country club is built on land leased from the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, and includes a retirement community of manufactured homes that line the greens.

The Big League Dreams Sports Park softball complex is on the corner of Date Palm and Dinah Shore drives, made up of four softball fields designed as replicas of four major league ballparks. The Pepsi All-Star Softball Game has been held there since 1998. The Cathedral City Soccer Park, next to James Workman Middle School, is where the So Cal Coyotes minor league football team play their games (and also in the Rancho Mirage High School stadium). In 2018–19, the So Cal Coyotes changed leagues and now play in Indio, California in the Shadow Hills High School football stadium.

The nine parks in Cathedral City are:

Century Park
Dog Park
Dennis Keat Soccer Park
Memorial Park
Ocotillo Park
Panorama Park
Patriot Park
Second Street Park
Town Square

An additional park is proposed at Corta Road and Landau Boulevard.

Golf

Several local golf resorts are in Cathedral City. These include Lawrence Welk's Desert Oasis Hotel/resort located in the Cathedral Canyon Country Club, the Date Palm Country Club, Outdoor Resort – Palm Springs, Cimarron Golf Resort, and the Desert Princess Palm Springs Resort and Golf Club.

Government

County

Cathedral City is in Supervisorial District 4 of Riverside County, represented by Democrat V. Manuel Perez.

State

In the California State Legislature, Cathedral City is in , and in .

Federal

In the United States House of Representatives, Cathedral City is in .

Tribal Council

The tribal council of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians governs over parts of the city where reservation jurisdictions overlap.

Education

Cathedral City High School, opened in 1991, is a major educational and recreational center to the city. The varsity football, basketball and soccer teams had earned CIF-southern California championship runs in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Cathedral City is also home to Mayfield College, a private college that offers career training in health care, HVAC, technology, and business.

Notable people

thumb|[[Frank Sinatra's grave at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City]]

The city was a winter residence for actors Robert Duvall and Martin Landau in the 1960s, and TV show host Monty Hall in the 1990s. Frank Sinatra's grave is located in Desert Memorial Park cemetery, as are those of several other prominent figures, including actor William Powell, singer-songwriter Sonny Bono, former mayor of Palm Springs, and actress Jane Wyman.

Other notable residents include:

Timothy Bradley (born 1983), a former WBO welterweight champion, is from Cathedral City and graduated from Cathedral City High School.
Lalo Guerrero (1916–2005), a Chicano folk musician, lived in Cathedral City in his final years.
John Michael Meehan (1959–2016), a nurse anesthetist and conman whose life story was adapted into the Dirty John podcast, lived in a trailer, on his sister Donna Meehan Stewart's RV lot in Cathedral City, before marrying Debra Newell.
Simon Oakland (1915–1983), an American actor, died in the town on August 29, 1983, a day after the actor's 68th birthday.
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961), was a German-born modernist painter, who was particularly known for portraits of Native American Pueblo peoples, desert landscapes and still life paintings, spent the last 29 year of her life in Cathedral City. F Street was renamed Agnes Pelton Way in her honor.
Willard Price (1887–1983), a Canadian-American writer, lived in Cathedral City from 1940 until 1973, during which he wrote most of his Adventure series of children's novels.

References

Bibliography

Hillery, Robert A. (2015). Cathedral City The Early Years 1925 to 1981, Outskirts Press, Inc., Denver, Colorado.

Citations

External links

The Desert Sun at mydesert.com, Coachella Valley Newspaper