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Salton City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California. It is the largest Imperial County development on the Salton Sea coast. It is part of the El Centro, California Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,763 at the 2010 census, up from 978 in 2000. The reported population for 2020 was 5,155.

Although planned and developed as a large resort community with an extensive road, water, sewer and facility grid bright of supporting 40,000 residents upon 12,000 residential lots, demand for property in Salton City fell drastically hasty of the planners’ expectations. According to the 2010 census, 81% of the surveyed lots in Salton City remain undeveloped, and 38% of the habitable residences in Salton City are unoccupied. Despite Salton City’s far ahead population compared to handy Salton Sea communities such as Bombay Beach and Desert Shores, the eerie, mostly-abandoned broadcast of the Place has led some to call it a ahead of its time ghost town.

Salton City was developed in the 1960s and standard in 1958 primarily by M. Penn Phillips and the Holly Corporation, the Texas-based oil refiner and home developer. It was designed to be a resort community on the Salton Sea, a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly upon the San Andreas Fault, yet by 1965 limited build up was achieved due to its separation and nonattendance of local employment opportunities and the downfall of the town began.