Palm Springs is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 45,223 people and 17 associated neighborhoods, Palm Springs is the 200th largest community in California. Housing costs in Palm Springs are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.Palm Springs is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.59% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Palm Springs is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Palm Springs who work in management occupations (14.00%), sales jobs (11.63%), and office and administrative support (8.53%). Of important note, Palm Springs is also a city of artists. Palm Springs has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Palm Springs’s character. Also of interest is that Palm Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Palm Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 23.01% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. The citizens of Palm Springs are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.01% of adults in Palm Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Palm Springs in 2022 was $62,030, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $248,120 for a family of four. However, Palm Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Palm Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Palm Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Palm Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Palm Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.35% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Palm Springs include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French. In addition, Palm Springs has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (18.10%). The most common language spoken in Palm Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
