Work & commute · North Palm Beach

Work & commute in North Palm Beach, FL

Most working residents leave North Palm Beach for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Palm Beach Gardens (14%), West Palm Beach (12%) and Jupiter (6%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

332 of 5,136 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,804 North Palm Beach residents head out of town to work, 332 work right here, and 4,377 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in North Palm Beach.

4,804live here, work elsewhere

332live and work here

4,377work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where North Palm Beach goes to work

Palm Beach Gardens7.1 mi away

14%713

West Palm Beach6.7 mi away

12%607

North Palm Beach (in town)right here

6%332

Jupiter7.9 mi away

6%298

Riviera Beach2.9 mi away

4%211

Palm Springs13 mi away

4%194

Juno Beach3.8 mi away

3%151

Lake Park1.5 mi away

3%142

Palm Beach8.7 mi away

3%131

Boca Raton31.2 mi away

2%105

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%2,252

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far North Palm Beach commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

55%

16%

10%

19%

55%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

North Palm Beach is balanced between jobs and homes

0.92jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in North Palm Beach are

4,709 jobs are based in North Palm Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs North Palm Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in North Palm Beach

4,709 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs North Palm Beach residents hold

5,136 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+21%

Jobs based in North Palm Beach, 2013 → 2023: 3,900 → 4,709. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.