Palm Beach, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Palm Beach town is a mid-size town in Florida, with 9,234 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #355 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 69.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Palm Beach town earn a median of $175,078 a year, 122.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 155% above the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 6.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Palm Beach town is valued at $1,996,700, 558.1% above the national figure and 554% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,849 a month, 31.5% above the national figure, or roughly $22,188 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 11.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 82.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Home values sit at 11.4× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. A median age of 69.7 puts Palm Beach town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.