Work & commute · Desert Palms

Work & commute in Desert Palms, CA

Most working residents leave Desert Palms for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Palm Desert (6%), San Diego (6%) and Los Angeles (5%). Half commute less than 79 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

54 of 1,392 working residents

Typical commute

79 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

38%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,338 Desert Palms residents head out of town to work, 54 work right here, and 439 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Desert Palms.

1,338live here, work elsewhere

54live and work here

439work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Desert Palms goes to work

Palm Desert4.8 mi away

6%90

San Diego81 mi away

6%86

Los Angeles122.3 mi away

5%68

Riverside63.8 mi away

4%57

Desert Palms (in town)right here

4%54

Rancho Mirage7.6 mi away

4%53

Palm Springs13.9 mi away

3%35

Indio4.9 mi away

2%32

La Quinta9.9 mi away

2%31

San Bernardino62.3 mi away

2%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

62%858

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

How far

How far Desert Palms commutes

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

23%

70%

23%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

70%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Desert Palms is a commuter town

0.35jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Desert Palms are

493 jobs are based in Desert Palms. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Desert Palms’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Desert Palms

493 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Desert Palms residents hold

1,392 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−1%

Jobs based in Desert Palms, 2013 → 2023: 499 → 493. 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.