Work & commute · Desert Hot Springs

Work & commute in Desert Hot Springs, CA

Most working residents leave Desert Hot Springs for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Palm Springs (15%), Palm Desert (8%) and Rancho Mirage (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

1,265 of 11,782 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,517 Desert Hot Springs residents head out of town to work, 1,265 work right here, and 3,135 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Desert Hot Springs.

10,517live here, work elsewhere

1,265live and work here

3,135work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Desert Hot Springs goes to work

Palm Springs10.6 mi away

15%1,798

Desert Hot Springs (in town)right here

11%1,265

Palm Desert18.3 mi away

8%892

Rancho Mirage15 mi away

5%611

Cathedral City9.6 mi away

5%545

Los Angeles107.1 mi away

3%402

Indio23.5 mi away

3%396

San Diego84.7 mi away

3%356

Thousand Palms14.6 mi away

3%326

Riverside48.8 mi away

2%183

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%5,008

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Desert Hot Springs commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

26%

31%

10%

33%

26%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Desert Hot Springs is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.37 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Desert Hot Springs are

4,400 jobs are based in Desert Hot Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Desert Hot Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Desert Hot Springs

4,400 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Desert Hot Springs residents hold

11,782 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+67%

Jobs based in Desert Hot Springs, 2013 → 2023: 2,627 → 4,400. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.