 At the 2006 census, Palmer had a population of 329.Palmer has a primary school (opened 1882), a general store, hotel and a Lutheran Church
of which Carl Heinrich Loessel was the first pastor, from 22 May 1869 before the church was built, succeeded by the long-serving Pastor Kuss.At the ABS 2001 census, Palmer had a population of 305 people living in 124 dwellings.