Work & commute · Royal Palm Beach

Work & commute in Royal Palm Beach, FL

Most working residents leave Royal Palm Beach for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are West Palm Beach (14%), Palm Springs (7%) and Wellington (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1,095 of 18,849 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 17,754 Royal Palm Beach residents head out of town to work, 1,095 work right here, and 11,354 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Royal Palm Beach.

17,754live here, work elsewhere

1,095live and work here

11,354work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Royal Palm Beach goes to work

West Palm Beach7 mi away

14%2,652

Palm Springs9.1 mi away

7%1,234

Royal Palm Beach (in town)right here

6%1,095

Wellington4.2 mi away

5%894

Palm Beach Gardens11 mi away

3%640

Riviera Beach10.9 mi away

3%633

Boca Raton24 mi away

3%616

Fort Lauderdale38.9 mi away

2%442

Boynton Beach15 mi away

2%423

Jupiter16.7 mi away

2%358

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%9,862

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

How far

How far Royal Palm Beach commutes

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

38%

31%

16%

15%

38%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Royal Palm Beach is a commuter town

0.66jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.66 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Royal Palm Beach are

12,449 jobs are based in Royal Palm Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Royal Palm Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Royal Palm Beach

12,449 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities38%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Royal Palm Beach residents hold

18,849 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+47%

Jobs based in Royal Palm Beach, 2013 → 2023: 8,449 → 12,449. 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.