Twentynine Palms is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 28,734 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Twentynine Palms is the 266th largest community in California.

Twentynine Palms is a military town: the armed forces employs 29.70% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Accommodation are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 16.38% and 13.91% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.20% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.32 minutes getting to work every day.

Twentynine Palms is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The citizens of Twentynine Palms are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.72% of adults in Twentynine Palms having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Twentynine Palms in 2022 was $29,241, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,964 for a family of four. However, Twentynine Palms contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Twentynine Palms is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Twentynine Palms home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Twentynine Palms residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Twentynine Palms also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Twentynine Palms include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Twentynine Palms is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.