Bermuda Dunes, California

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 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 , all of it land. The official elevation of Bermuda Dunes is above sea level, but the surface drops by over from west to east. The distance from Bermuda Dunes to Washington, D.C. is approximately . The distance to Sacramento, the California state capital, is approximately , and to Los Angeles, the state's largest city, is . 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 of rain annually. Bermuda Dunes has a warm winter/hot summer climate: Its average annual high temperature is and average annual low is but summer highs above are common and sometimes exceed , while summer night lows often stay above . Winters are warm with daytime highs often between and corresponding night lows falling to . The mean annual temperature is . {{Weather box|location = Bermuda Dunes, CA ==Demographics==

Bermuda Dunes first appeared as a census-designated place in the 1990 United States census. 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. Of all households, 47.0% were married-couple households, 7.4% were cohabiting couple households, 17.5% had a male householder with no spouse or partner present, and 28.1% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. 26.5% of households were one person, and 11.1% were one person aged 65 or older. There were 2,224 families (66.3% of all households), and the average household size was 2.46. 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 . 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). ==References==