Land Use in the Coachella Valley
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 [...]
New Partnership Benefits Palm Desert Businesses
For business owners, or those who dream of starting a business, the Coachella Valley is an ideal place to be. With numerous business-centric organizations and a strong movement among local chambers of commerce and consumers [...]
Our 18 and younger population in the Coachella Valley
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 [...]
Wealth in the Coachella Valley
For my first Data Digest of 2023, I explored household income in the Coachella Valley. Household income has risen since the COVID lockdowns, especially for those with the lowest incomes. Persistent inflation, however, has taken [...]
Urban Displacement in the Coachella Valley
Since the beginning of the pandemic, residential real estate has been on a wild roller coaster ride. Housing prices in the Coachella Valley rose to historic levels during the COVID restrictions. People moved into the [...]
Agriculture in the Coachella Valley
The Coachella Valley Agriculture sector is valued at an estimated $600 million, according to the 2019 Coachella Valley Water District's (CVWD) 2019 Crop Report. It accounts for half the estimated $1.3 billion agriculture industry in [...]