Palm Beach’s public schools outperform 48% of Florida districts
The public schools Palm Beach’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 52% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
About one in five working residents works right in Palm Beach
Most working residents leave Palm Beach for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are West Palm Beach (12%), Boca Raton (4%) and Fort Lauderdale (3%). Half commute less than 17 miles.
Palm Beach has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 90°, a January night drops to 58°, and snow is almost unheard of.
Palm Beach's reported crime rate is close to Florida's. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts. 14 violent crimes were reported in 2025.
Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Located on a barrier island, the town is separated from West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoastal Waterway to its west and a small section of the Intracoastal Waterway and South Palm Beach to its south. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 9,245. White Americans began to live in the area as early as 1872. Elisha Newton "Cap" Dimick, later the town's first mayor, established Palm Beach's first hotel, the Cocoanut Grove House, in 1880, but Standard Oil tycoon Henry Flagler became instrumental in transforming the island's tropica…
