Bermuda Dunes, California

Geography

Bermuda Dunes is located at (33.745, -116.285).

The CDP's name originated from the Bermuda Dunes country club, a golf course community designed by William Francis Bell first opened in 1962 and the former site of the Bob Hope Chrysler Golf Classic. There are 10 other golf clubs and communities within the 5 mi radius, including Sun City Palm Desert. Bermuda Dunes Airport is located in the community.

Public services

The local public school district is the Desert Sands Unified School District, with one elementary school within the community boundaries; James Monroe Elementary. Bermuda Dunes also hosts the Desert Christian Academy, a private preschool through grade 12 school. Electricity is provided by the Imperial Irrigation District and Southern California Edison across Washington Street. Water is provided by both the IID and the Myoma Dunes Water Company and telephone landlines are administered by Verizon.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.9 sqmi, all of it land. The official elevation of Bermuda Dunes is 30 ft above sea level, but the surface drops by over 80 ft from west to east.

The distance from Bermuda Dunes to Washington, D.C. is approximately 2318 mi. The distance to Sacramento, the California state capital, is approximately 507 mi, and to Los Angeles, the state's largest city, is 122 mi. Bermuda Dunes shares two ZIP codes with Indio: 92201 and 92203. The telephone area codes are 760 and 442.

Terrain and climate

Located in the Coachella Valley desert region, Bermuda Dunes is sheltered by the San Jacinto Mountains to the west, the Santa Rosa Mountains to the south and by the Little San Bernardino Mountains to the east. This geography gives Bermuda Dunes its hot, dry climate, with 354 days of sunshine and only 3.44 in of rain annually.{{cite web | access-date = 2011-07-24 | archive-date = May 20, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130520081226/http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/products/station/USC00044259.normals.txt | url-status = dead

Bermuda Dunes has a warm winter/hot summer climate: Its average annual high temperature is 89.5 °F and average annual low is 62.1 °F but summer highs above 110 °F are common and sometimes exceed 120 °F, while summer night lows often stay above 82 °F. Winters are warm with daytime highs often between 70 - and corresponding night lows falling to 48 -. The mean annual temperature is 75.8 °F.

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Demographics

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Bermuda Dunes first appeared as a census-designated place in the 1990 United States census.

2020

The 2020 United States census reported that Bermuda Dunes had a population of 8,244. The population density was 2,797.4 PD/sqmi. The racial makeup of Bermuda Dunes was 58.2% White, 2.7% African American, 1.2% Native American, 3.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 16.9% from other races, and 17.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 38.5% of the population.

The census reported that 99.9% of the population lived in households, 0.1% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and no one was institutionalized.

There were 3,352 households, out of which 29.6% included children under the age of 18, 47.0% were married-couple households, 7.4% were cohabiting couple households, 28.1% had a female householder with no partner present, and 17.5% had a male householder with no partner present. 26.5% of households were one person, and 11.1% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.46.

The age distribution was 21.8% under the age of 18, 7.6% aged 18 to 24, 25.7% aged 25 to 44, 25.9% aged 45 to 64, and 19.1% who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 40.3years. For every 100 females, there were 95.8 males.

There were 3,861 housing units at an average density of 1,310.1 /mi2, of which 3,352 (86.8%) were occupied. Of these, 53.9% were owner-occupied, and 46.1% were occupied by renters.

2023 estimates

In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that 13.1% of the population were foreign-born. Of all people aged 5 or older, 75.6% spoke only English at home, 21.3% spoke Spanish, 0.1% spoke other Indo-European languages, 1.9% spoke Asian or Pacific Islander languages, and 1.0% spoke other languages. Of those aged 25 or older, 89.1% were high school graduates and 35.9% had a bachelor's degree.

The median household income was $93,819, and the per capita income was $47,358. About 5.0% of families and 9.1% of the population were below the poverty line.

Politics

In the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Thousand Palms is in 4th District, Represented by Democrat V. Manuel Perez Supervisor of the 4th District

In the California State Legislature, Bermuda Dunes is in , and in .{{Cite web | access-date = December 15, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150201113744/http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html | archive-date = February 1, 2015 | url-status = dead

In the United States House of Representatives, Bermuda Dunes is in .

Notable people

• John J. Benoit (1951–2016), California law enforcement officer and politician
• Rock Hudson, actor, owned a house in Bermuda Dunes. Author Armistead Maupin edited Tales of the City in the house.
• Casey Merrill, former Defensive End for the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints (NFL).

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