Desert View Highlands vs Val Verde

A side-by-side comparison of Desert View Highlands and Val Verde: population, income, housing, and more.

Desert View Highlands and Val Verde are places in California. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Desert View Highlands has the higher population (3,389 vs 3,074 in Val Verde). Val Verde has the higher median household income ($109,543 vs $68,958 in Desert View Highlands). Val Verde has the higher median home value ($526,000 vs $321,400 in Desert View Highlands).

Population, income & housing

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
Population	3,389	3,074
Median age	35.0 yrs	35.4 yrs
Median household income	$68,958	$109,543
Median home value	$321,400	$526,000
Median gross rent	$1,627	$1,661
Housing units	1,120	897
Homeownership rate	50.0%	80.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.9%	19.3%
Unemployment rate	7.3%	6.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
Population	2,668 → 3,389 (+27.0%)	2,734 → 3,074 (+12.4%)
Median household income	$60,703 → $68,958 (+13.6%)	$88,947 → $109,543 (+23.2%)
Median home value	$268,800 → $321,400 (+19.6%)	$348,800 → $526,000 (+50.8%)
Median gross rent	$1,331 → $1,627 (+22.2%)	$1,469 → $1,661 (+13.1%)

Desert View Highlands

Population

2,6683,389

Median household income

$60,703$68,958

Median home value

$268,800$321,400

Median gross rent

$1,331$1,627

Val Verde

Population

2,7343,074

Median household income

$88,947$109,543

Median home value

$348,800$526,000

Median gross rent

$1,469$1,661

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
Under 5	3.8%	3.4%
5 to 17	18.7%	25.2%
18 to 24	13.8%	7.1%
25 to 34	13.6%	13.9%
35 to 44	6.6%	13.1%
45 to 54	15.8%	12.4%
55 to 64	11.7%	15.7%
65 to 74	11.6%	6.7%
75 and over	4.2%	2.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
White (non-Hispanic)	9.0%	28.1%
Black or African American	13.2%	3.8%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	11.2%	4.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.8%
Two or more races	2.7%	3.5%
Hispanic or Latino	63.9%	58.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
No high school diploma	30.8%	19.7%
High school graduate	20.0%	23.4%
Some college or associate's	33.3%	37.5%
Bachelor's degree	11.8%	14.2%
Graduate or professional degree	4.1%	5.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
Drove alone	73.5%	73.6%
Carpooled	10.7%	17.3%
Public transit	3.4%	1.4%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	12.1%	7.4%
Other means	0.3%	0.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
1-unit, detached	87.0%	95.2%
1-unit, attached	2.1%	1.2%
2 to 4 units	10.9%	1.4%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	2.1%

Poverty & households

	Desert View Highlands	Val Verde
Poverty rate	1.8%	5.7%
Average household size	3.03	3.57
Mean commute (minutes)	36	27
Median year structure built	1972	1987