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SheetFL-BOYNTON-BEACH-FL · Boynton Beach, FL 80,601 pop · income 51st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Boynton Beach
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Boynton Beach on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Flint · lowest
36,194
Flint · lowest
36,194 median HH income
28.5% of the leader · rank #1
Bourbon · near
71,375
Bourbon · near
71,375 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #2
Glenwood · near
71,376
Glenwood · near
71,376 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #3
Boynton Beach · this city
71,378
Boynton Beach · this city
71,378 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #4
Reynoldsburg · near
71,381
Reynoldsburg · near
71,381 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #5
Duncanville · near
71,381
Duncanville · near
71,381 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #6
Somerville · highest
127,056
Somerville · highest
127,056 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Boynton Beach on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 80,601.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Boynton Beach - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Boynton Beach lands in the 51st percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
51st
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
19th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Boynton Beach, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 80,601 residents in Boynton Beach, a small city within Florida. The typical household in Boynton Beach brings in $71,378 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.6%. Home values in Boynton Beach run a median of $312,700, and the median resident age is 42.9 years. 31.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 61.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 36 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 95% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2700.3 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Boynton Beach's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Boynton Beach, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Boynton Beach?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Boynton Beach?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are North Port (80,512 residents, $81,940 income); Homestead (80,725 residents, $61,975 income); Miami Beach (81,319 residents, $67,014 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Frederick, MD (80,617 residents); Somerville, MA (80,549 residents); Rancho Cordova, CA (80,656 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
How far does income reach against housing in Boynton Beach?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the education layer cover for Boynton Beach?
The NCES join finds 23 public schools within the city match. 31.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Boynton Beach growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,923 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 36 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+2.4%
2025 estimate
82,396
2020 estimate
80,473
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Boynton Beach?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2700.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2283.0
Violent rate
417.3
Total reported rate
2700.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 8.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Boynton Beach, FL
40/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$71,378
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
417 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Boynton Beach profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.9%
Household income: 51/100 (C-) · $71,378
Poverty rate: 45/100 (D) · 8.6%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Violent crime: 21/100 (F) · 417 /100k
Where Boynton Beach sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Boynton Beach's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Boynton Beach highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Boynton Beach, FL (this city): home $312,700, crime 2,700/100k
Frederick, MD : home $365,200, crime 2,080/100k
Somerville, MA : home $899,400, crime 1,920/100k
Rancho Cordova, CA : home $451,400, crime 2,538/100k
Lakewood, CA : home $774,100, crime 3,038/100k
Flint, MI : home $47,600, crime 2,570/100k
South Jordan, UT : home $614,800, crime 982/100k
North Port, FL : home $328,700, crime 875/100k
Kissimmee, FL : home $273,900, crime 2,386/100k
How does Boynton Beach compare to other US cities?
Boynton Beach measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income51% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety19% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Florida alone, Boynton Beach ranks #93 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Boynton Beach against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Boynton Beach near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Boynton Beach ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Boynton Beach only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#408 of 903
55th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#404 of 894
55th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#426 of 930
54th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#385 of 930
58th percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
51st percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Boynton Beach's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Boynton Beach's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Boynton Beach's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$312,70033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Boynton Beach's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,722 of 15,516
More affordable than 24% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#381 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.4×, Boynton Beach sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,722 of 15,516 and #381 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$71,378Boynton Beach, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Boynton Beach, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Boynton Beach, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
80,601
Median Income
$71,378
Median Home Value
$312,700
Median Age
42.9
Poverty Rate
8.6%
Labor force participation
61.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2700.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
417.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2283.0
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
23
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Boynton Beach's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
80,473 residents
2021
80,123 residents
2022
81,463 residents
2023
82,558 residents
2024
82,730 residents
2025
82,396 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
36
housing units authorized
Single-Family
36
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
769
22
747
$83.3M
2020
21
19
2
$5.0M
2021
363
37
326
$113.0M
2022
174
73
101
$139.4M
2023
49
49
0
$16.3M
2024
36
36
0
$12.7M
Permit volume decreased 95% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.0%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
8.9%
Other
4.0%
Based on 41,271 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Boynton Beach. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Boynton Beach is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Boynton Beach sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Boynton Beach compares to similar-size Florida cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.