Twentynine Palms is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 28,734 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Twentynine Palms is the 266th largest community in California.

Twentynine Palms is a military town: the armed forces employs 29.70% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Accommodation are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 16.38% and 13.91% of the civilian workforce respectively.

A relatively large number of people in Twentynine Palms telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.20% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

One of the benefits of Twentynine Palms is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.32 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small city, Twentynine Palms does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The population of Twentynine Palms overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Twentynine Palms, 24.72% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Twentynine Palms in 2022 was $29,241, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,964 for a family of four. However, Twentynine Palms contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Twentynine Palms is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Twentynine Palms home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Twentynine Palms residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Twentynine Palms also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Twentynine Palms include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

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