South Palm Beach, FL population, income and ZIP codes

South Palm Beach town is a small town in Florida, with 1,667 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #709 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 68.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in South Palm Beach town earn a median of $79,583 a year, 1.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 16% above the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 11.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in South Palm Beach town is valued at $374,200, 23.3% above the national figure and 23% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,750 a month, 24.5% above the national figure, or roughly $21,000 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 88.6% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 68.1 puts South 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.