Palm Springs, CA
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LIVING IN PALM SPRINGS
Palm Springs is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 44,575 people and 17 constituent 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.
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 19.83% 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.
Palm Springs is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 42.14% of adults in Palm Springs have at least a bachelor’s degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
The per capita income in Palm Springs in 2018 was $49,987, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $199,948 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 Asian. 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 25.19% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Palm Springs include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.
Palm Springs also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.90%.
The most common language spoken in Palm Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
This information was found on neighborhoodscout.com