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Renting an Apartment in Indio
Indio, California, is a U.S. city located in the Coachella Valley of Southern
California's desert region. The city is located in Riverside County, 26 miles
(42 km) east of Palm Springs, 70 miles (113 km) east of Riverside, 83 miles (134
km) east of San Bernardino, and 125 miles (201 km) east of Los Angeles. The
population was 49,116 at the 2000 census, but Indio has experienced fast-growth
as many exurban other cities in Southern California have. According to the book
History of the Coachella Valley Water District, the word indio is Spanish for
Indian. Indio sits on an earlier site of a Cahuilla village, Teikweit before the
1880s.
Indio is one of Southern California's most important agricultural regions as
well, once responsible for a large percentage of the nation's date crop;
however, with all the new residential and recreational development, the date
groves are being pushed more to the south and southeast of Indio. Even the grove
of date palms at the Riverside County Date Festival fairgrounds has been torn
out by the county. Travelers from around the world still can stop by Shields
Date Gardens, a famous date grower that maintains a large retail store along
State Highway 111 in Indio. There are citrus groves and vegetable fields
surrounding the city limits, but rapid development of new housing tracts and
golf courses in the "East Valley" in the 1990s and 2000s has displaced most of
the agricultural space.
The California Department of Finance's annual report estimating city populations
listed Indio with a population of 66,539 in 2005 and 71,654 as of January 1,
2006. Indio ranks one of the 10 fastest growing cities in California. If current
trends continue, Indio will have over 80,000 by 2010 or pass the 100,000 mark in
the next decade.
When nearby golf resort cities of Palm Springs are built-up and expensive,
Indio, the neighboring towns of Coachella and La Quinta became popular
destinations for new movers relocating to the area, and year-round residents
sought a moderately-priced home.
Expected to have 5,000 new single family homes and 1,000 apartment units by the
year 2012, Indio handles unprecedented growth for being a selection for new
residents. City leaders and other locals are expanding city public services,
including new recreation activities, commercial retail centers, and industrial
complexes.
Indio is called the only "year-round" community in the Coachella Valley, because
three-fourths of residents in the year 2000 live full-time. Also to note in the
2000 census, over 75 percent of residents were born or raised in Indio, had
parents or grandparents in the same town, or had lived in the city for over 10
years.
The majority of residents and newcomers are Latino, and a high proportion of
immigrants from Mexico have arrived. The number of foreign born residents is
high in ratio to the town's population. The proximity to the border is 80 miles
(130 km) away has given the town and nearby Coachella, where Hispanics are 90
percent of the local population, to have a "borderland" reputation.
In recent years, Indio served as a magnet of job opportunities for immigrants,
and newcomers from parts of California and across the nation. Job fields, such
as agriculture, construction, hospitality (hotel resorts), maintenance, retail
and housekeeping are highly needed in the area.
Indio sought more corporate businesses and office professions, like fruit
packing and shipping firms. Locally-based United States Filter Corporation, Guy
Evans Inc., Dimare and Sun World; and move-in companies: Armtec Defense
Products, Ernie Ball, Ernst and Young, Ferguson, Fulton Distributors and
SunScape Tech choose Indio for the location of transport routes, low economical
costs and growth potential.
The growth in population increased political representation, as the area
(including Indio and Palm Desert, California) are covered by the 45th and 46th
US congressional, and 64th and 80th state assembly districts, created by each
city's partisan majorities (Monroe Street and Interstate 10, where the elevation
is sea level, also is a political representative boundary-mostly Democrat to the
east, mostly Republican west), signified the city's new socioeconomic divide,
replaced the older north/south divide of Indio Boulevard.