Palm Springs is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 45,223 people and 17 associated 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.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 23.01% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

The citizens of Palm Springs are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.01% of adults in Palm Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Palm Springs in 2018 was $62,030, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $248,120 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 Black or African-American. 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 23.35% 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: 18.10%.

The most common language spoken in Palm Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.