Twentynine Palms, California

Twentynine Palms population, 2020 to 2024

Twentynine Palms lost 1,497 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.3%. In the latest year it moved by -298. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 420th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Twentynine Palms is 72% of it.

Twentynine Palms covers 58.75 square miles of land, for 452 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Twentynine Palms is less dense than the typical town.

What county Twentynine Palms is in

All of Twentynine Palms's residents live in San Bernardino County, which had 2,214,281 residents in 2024. Twentynine Palms holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Twentynine Palms

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Twentynine Palms by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 92277, 92278. 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 Twentynine Palms is

The Census internal point of Twentynine Palms is at 34.147800, -116.066000. Sacramento, the capital, is 429.8 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Desert Hot Springs, CA (33,917 people), 30.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Moreno Valley, CA, 67.0 miles away.

Daylight in Twentynine Palms

At 34.15° N, Twentynine Palms gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Twentynine Palms

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Yucca Valley, 20.4 miles away, with 21,858 people.