Palm Desert, California

Palm Desert population, 2020 to 2024

Palm Desert added 1,951 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by +863. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 60th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Palm Desert is 1.4 times that size.

Palm Desert covers 26.78 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 1,985 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Palm Desert is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palm Desert is in

All of Palm Desert's residents live in Riverside County, which had 2,529,933 residents in 2024. Palm Desert holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palm Desert

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palm Desert by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92211, 92260. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Palm Desert is

The Census internal point of Palm Desert is at 33.737600, -116.364100. Sacramento, the capital, is 439.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indio, CA (94,275 people), 7.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Menifee, CA, 47.3 miles away.

Daylight in Palm Desert

At 33.74° N, Palm Desert gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palm Desert

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Indian Wells, 3.3 miles away, with 4,989 people.