The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Thousand Palms has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Thousand Palms a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Thousand Palms does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Thousand Palms are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.55% of adults in Thousand Palms having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Thousand Palms in 2022 was $30,074, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,296 for a family of four. However, Thousand Palms contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thousand Palms is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Thousand Palms home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Thousand Palms, accounting for 66.55% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Thousand Palms residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Thousand Palms include German, English, Italian, Irish, and Scottish.
In addition, Thousand Palms has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.41%).
The most common language spoken in Thousand Palms is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
