About David Robinson

David is the Director of Analytic Services for CVEP. David lives for travel, loves everything about maps, listens to too many podcasts, and spoils his cat. He has graduate degrees in Architecture and Geographic Information Systems and is passionate about gathering, organizing, and disseminating data about the Coachella Valley.

For-profit? Non-profit? In which type of businesses do Coachella Valley employees work?

By |2023-11-28T14:33:15-08:00November 28th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , , |

I always find it fascinating to see how the Coachella Valley compares demographically with other geographic areas. Such comparisons give a fresh perspective on what is unique about our Valley. What are our particular strengths and weaknesses? Today we will compare the distribution of our workforce in terms of "class of worker." The US Census [...]

Choosing to Change: Our 2023 Greater Palm Springs Economic Report is now available free for download

By |2023-11-15T19:30:12-08:00November 15th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , |

No more Summit Report sneak peeks. I'm thrilled to announce that the official Economic Report for 2023 is now available for download on our website. We are excited to share with you nearly 75 pages of comprehensive business and socioeconomic data about the Coachella Valley. Enjoy our economist Dr. Manfred Keil's "big picture" discussion, COVID-19 [...]

Housing in the Coachella Valley – Unaffordable except for the few

By |2023-11-01T18:56:27-07:00November 1st, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , |

Our CEO, Joe Wallace, gave an inspiring presentation at our recent 2023 Economic Report meeting. One of the salient subjects he discussed was how the average household in the Coachella Valley could not afford to purchase a home here in the current real estate climate. The estimated median household income here is $64,192. So half [...]

Median Income of Coachella Valley residents based on Educational Attainment

By |2023-10-17T16:34:23-07:00October 17th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , |

As we complete the final touches to our 19th Annual CVEP Economic Report, we'll continue our sneak peeks of the informative data in the final report. The last peek presented data on the average pay per worker by business sector for 2022. Today we'll explore median pay in the Coachella Valley filtered by educational attainment. [...]

A Sneak Peek at the 2023 Economic Summit Report

By |2023-10-03T15:25:51-07:00October 3rd, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , , |

Today we present you with a sneak peek of our 19th Annual CVEP Economic Report. Our team from Claremont McKenna College, headed by Professor Manfred Keil, is busy finalizing the analysis of the latest economic data for the Coachella Valley. The final report will be available in digital form soon after our October 11 Summit. [...]

Ranking of Occupation Groups in the Coachella Valley

By |2023-09-19T17:09:09-07:00September 19th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , , |

In my last blog, I mapped where the Coachella Valley's working population is concentrated. Now let's look more closely at the types of occupations valley workers occupy. We will explore a ranking of occupation classes derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. We'll rank the classes by the total number [...]

The Working Population in the Coachella Valley

By |2023-09-06T21:28:16-07:00September 6th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , |

As a nation, we have many, many conflicting opinions and beliefs about the state of the American economy. One fact cannot be refuted, however. Employment in the US continues to rise, albeit at a recently lower rate. Today’s Data Digest shows a map of where the working-aged population resides in the Coachella Valley and how [...]

Tropical Storm Hilary and the Unique Geography of the Coachella Valley

By |2023-08-23T07:14:03-07:00August 22nd, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , |

My brother-in-law lives in Orlando, FL. During the fast approach of Hurricane Hilary, he was eager to help us prepare. After all, he's got a lot of experience, living in Florida. He was also keen to remind us that they haven't even had a significant hurricane yet. How could the first hurricane in the family [...]

Land Use in the Coachella Valley

By |2023-08-08T19:14:18-07:00August 8th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , |

As any of you who have read my Data Digest can tell, I can't get enough of graphs, tables, and infographics. One of my go-to sites for infographics about the economy is Visual Capitalist. Recently I stumbled on one of their older articles titled Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in America (and I can [...]

Our 18 and younger population in the Coachella Valley

By |2023-07-27T11:08:59-07:00July 26th, 2023|Categories: Data Digest|Tags: , , , , , |

In a recent Desert Sun article titled Palm Springs is an oasis for tourists, but not for the area's majority low-income students, the author, Jonathan Horwitz, explores how the Coachella Valley’s “glamourous vision” obscures a darker demographic fact. Many of the valley’s K-12 students are socioeconomically disadvantaged at higher rates than those in the rest [...]

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