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Palm Springs, FL

Palm Springs's Census ACS profile: residents, income, housing, and the joined public-record layers available for this place.

26,871
Residents
$59,602
Median income
$234,500
Median home
$1,526
Median rent (state)
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Sheet FL-PALM-SPRINGS-FL · Palm Springs, FL 26,871 pop · income 35th pct

POP-SMALL · INC-MID · COL-PAR · SAFE-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · HOME-MID · BOOK-UNK

  • POP-SMALL 26,871
  • INC-MID $59,602
  • COL-PAR 103.4
  • SAFE-UNK Safety pending
  • RANK-LOWER 35th
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midway
  • HOME-MID $234,500
  • BOOK-UNK Tracts pending

Nearest income peer: Midway, KY (+ $7 income $)

Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Palm Springs

Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Palm Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.

median HH income

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-08

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Nationwide peers by population, income

Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Palm Springs on ACS population and median household income . Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.

Similar population

Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 26,871.

4 peers

Similar household income

Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS median household income. This city: $59,602. Population peers are excluded.

4 peers

Palm Springs - the verdict

Palm Springs ranks in the 35th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.

35th
percentile, household income
52nd
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this

Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.

Data Snapshot: Palm Springs, FL

Census ACS 2023 estimates count 26,871 residents in Palm Springs, a small city within Florida. Median household income here is $59,602 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.4%. Home values in Palm Springs run a median of $234,500, and the median resident age is 37.8 years. Educational attainment runs 15.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.

In 2024, 8 residential building permits were authorized in Palm Springs (Construction Slowdown), down 90% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.

Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Florida at 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).

A decision-led reading path

Useful questions to ask of Palm Springs's data

How this reading path is ordered

This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.

For Palm Springs, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count. No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.

Question 1

What does the education layer cover for Palm Springs?

The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 15.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.

The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.

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2. Population change

Is Palm Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?

Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.

Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,409 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.

See the national growth ranking →

3. Work and mobility

What does the journey to work look like in Palm Springs?

Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.

Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.

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Question 4

Which cities make useful reference points for Palm Springs?

Within Florida, the closest population matches are Leisure (26,917 residents, $48,640 income); Temple Terrace (26,922 residents, $65,756 income); Lutz (26,731 residents, $114,516 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Plum, PA (26,873 residents); Benicia, CA (26,861 residents); Oak Forest, IL (26,888 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.

Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.

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Why these stay compact

These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.

Housing and income

How far does income reach against housing in Palm Springs?

The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.

This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.

Household income
$59,602
Home value
$234,500
Value / income
3.9×

City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.

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Population

26,871 residents

Small city (10k–49k)

Median Household Income

$59,602 /yr

Below median income · poverty 10.4% (Above-median poverty)

Cost of Living Index (state)

103.4 (US=100)

Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average

City profile score · Palm Springs, FL

31/100

4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023

Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.

Poverty rate F
10.4%

Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.

Household income F
$59,602

Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.

Cost of living F
103.4 index

BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.

Bachelor's+ share F
15.9%

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.

Violent crime N/A
N/A

No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).

Palm Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions) 4-axis radar comparing 1 series across Poverty rate, Household income, Cost of living, Bachelor's+ share. Poverty rateHousehold incomeCost of livingBachelor's+ share 31 F
Palm Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)
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  • Poverty rate: 38/100 (F) · 10.4%
  • Household income: 34/100 (F) · $59,602
  • Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
  • Bachelor's+ share: 23/100 (F) · 15.9%

How does Palm Springs compare to other US cities?

Where Palm Springs sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.

Household income 35% higher than other cities
Home value 52% pricier than other cities
Median rent 73% pricier than other cities

"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.

How we calculate these percentiles & ranks

Each percentile compares Palm Springs against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.

Florida-relative analysis

Median Gross Rent places Palm Springs near the bottom of Florida's cities

Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Palm Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Palm Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.

Median Household Income
#605 of 903
33rd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#611 of 894
32nd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#350 of 930
62nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#704 of 930
24th percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered

Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.

35thIncome percentile
Gauge source note

35th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.

How Palm Springs's home value compares nationally

Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)

$234,500 48th percentile more affordable than 48% of 15,600 US cities

Show national distribution $0–$25,000: 5 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $25,000–$50,000: 54 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $50,000–$75,000: 352 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $75,000–$100,000: 1,086 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $100,000–$125,000: 1,516 US cities (10%). Below this entry. $125,000–$150,000: 1,170 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $150,000–$175,000: 1,278 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $175,000–$200,000: 1,229 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $200,000–$225,000: 1,035 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $225,000–$250,000: 976 US cities (6%). This entry sits in this band. $250,000–$275,000: 754 US cities (5%). Above this entry. $275,000–$300,000: 712 US cities (5%). Above this entry. $300,000–$325,000: 521 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $325,000–$350,000: 526 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $350,000–$375,000: 465 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $375,000–$400,000: 393 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $400,000–$425,000: 317 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $425,000–$450,000: 300 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $450,000–$475,000: 307 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $475,000–$500,000: 250 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $500,000–$525,000: 160 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $525,000–$550,000: 156 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $550,000–$575,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $575,000–$600,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $600,000–$625,000: 163 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $625,000–$650,000: 167 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $650,000–$675,000: 135 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $675,000–$700,000: 101 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $700,000–$725,000: 95 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $725,000–$750,000: 71 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $750,000–$775,000: 65 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $775,000–$800,000: 70 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $800,000–$825,000: 57 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $825,000–$850,000: 67 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $850,000–$875,000: 60 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $875,000–$900,000: 58 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $900,000–$925,000: 47 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $925,000–$950,000: 37 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $950,000–$975,000: 31 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $975,000–$1,000,000: 470 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $1,000,000–$1,025,000: 0 US cities (0%). Above this entry. Palm Springs $0 $1,025,000 every US city, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023

Palm Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×

ACS median home value divided by median household income.

Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,501 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,925 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)

At 3.9×, Palm Springs sits in the moderate band: national rank #10,501 of 15,516 and #1,925 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999). Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.

How this ratio is calculated

Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000. Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0). This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.

Income distribution context

$59,602 Palm Springs, FL median household income (Census ACS)

Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Household income distribution - Palm Springs, FL Palm Springs, FL's median household income ($59,602) against the U.S. national quintile-share pattern. The Lorenz curve and quintile bars are national context, not Palm Springs, FL-specific shares. $ Household Income Distribution Palm Springs, FL median $59,602/yr, vs. U.S. national quintile pattern QUINTILE SHARE OF AGGREGATE INCOME Lowest 20% 3.4% Second 20% 9.2% Middle 20% 15.1% Fourth 20% 23.2% Top 20% 49.1% LORENZ CURVE cumulative income vs. population 100% 0% 100% pop. 0%
Palm Springs, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Palm Springs, FL.

Key socioeconomic indicators

Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) 15.9%

Census ACS S1501, educational attainment

Poverty rate (households below FPL) 10.4%

Census ACS S1701, poverty status

Labor force participation (adults 16+) 66.5%

Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force

Population
26,871
Median Income
$59,602
Median Home Value
$234,500
Median Age
37.8
Poverty Rate
10.4%
Labor force participation
66.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.9%

Schools

Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city

Population Change

PEP vintage

Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025

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26,500 residents27,000 residents27,500 residents28,000 residents28,500 residents29,000 residents 202020212022202320242025 26,894 residents 28,303 residents ▲ +5.2%
Palm Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.
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Period Population
2020 26,894 residents
2021 26,769 residents
2022 27,119 residents
2023 27,636 residents
2024 28,429 residents
2025 28,303 residents

Housing Supply

BPS source

Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized

📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
4
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents

5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)

Year Total
2019 79
2020 7
2021 59
2022 111
2023 316
2024 8

Permit volume decreased 90% from 2019 to 2024.

Commute Patterns

Commute source

How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023

Drive Alone
74.3%
Carpool
15.3%
Public Transit
3.5%
Walk
0.1%
Work from Home
5.6%
Other
1.2%

Based on 13,936 workers 16 and over.

Monthly Utility Costs

Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225

EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).

These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Palm Springs. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.

Living Costs & Risk

Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Palm Springs is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).

Cost/risk geography note

Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Palm Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.

How Palm Springs compares to similar-size Florida cities

Same-state peer method

Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.

City Population Median Household Income
Palm Springs (this city) 26,871 $59,602
Leisure 26,917 $48,640
Temple Terrace 26,922 $65,756
Lutz 26,731 $114,516
NCES CCD Census BPS 2024
Primary sources on this page

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.

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Primary sources: Census ACS, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES. Joins use OMB Bulletin 23-01 / FIPS keys.

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