Housing mix
Cathedral City, CA housing supply, ownership, and rent
What the latest ACS housing mix can and cannot tell buyers and renters comparing options in Cathedral City, CA.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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The local figures answer the first question: Cathedral City, CA's current ACS housing baseline includes 22,599 total housing units, 18,979 occupied units, and 3,620 vacant units. For the decision at hand, those counts can help a borrower establish the scale of the measured housing base before comparing tenure, rent, current listings, property condition, and financing. The figures describe stock across the survey period; they do not say that 3,620 homes were listed for sale or available to rent at one moment. In practical terms, reading 22,599 total units with 18,979 occupied and 3,620 vacant units keeps the release internally grounded while leaving live availability to current listing and property evidence.
A grounded Cathedral City, CA comparison starts with current listings and lease offers, then uses the ACS evidence to check whether the sample is being interpreted in the context of 22,599 total units, a vacancy share of 16.0%, and an owner share of 66.5%. For renting, replace the $1,601 median with the actual lease, utilities, deposits, and expected changes. For ownership, keep the 66.5% share as market context while adding the selected property's price, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, loan disclosures, and cash-to-close. The resulting worksheet will not turn 33.5% or 66.5% into a recommendation, but it will keep the two paths comparable and make the remaining assumptions visible before a decision.