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SheetFL-PALM-BEACH-GARDENS-FL · Palm Beach Gardens, FL 59,751 pop · income 83rd 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 Palm Beach Gardens
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Palm Beach Gardens on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Youngstown · lowest
34,746
Youngstown · lowest
34,746 median HH income
30.1% of the leader · rank #1
North Seekonk · near
110,541
North Seekonk · near
110,541 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #2
Wellsville · near
110,543
Wellsville · near
110,543 median HH income
95.6% of the leader · rank #3
Palm Beach Ga… · this city
110,563
Palm Beach Ga… · this city
110,563 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #4
Talahi Island · near
110,573
Talahi Island · near
110,573 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #5
Placentia · near
110,575
Placentia · near
110,575 median HH income
95.7% of the leader · rank #6
White Plains · highest
115,586
White Plains · highest
115,586 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Palm Beach Gardens on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 59,751.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Palm Beach Gardens lands in the 83rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
83rd
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
59,751 people live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Palm Beach Gardens report a median income of $110,563 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.0%. Home values in Palm Beach Gardens run a median of $554,300, and the median resident age is 50.1 years. Educational attainment runs 56.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 677 residential building permits were authorized in Palm Beach Gardens (Building Boom), up 133% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. NOAA puts Palm Beach Gardens's yearly average temperature at 74.4°F with 66.0 inches of precipitation per year.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Palm Beach Gardens report an average commute of 18.7 minutes, with 69.9% driving alone and 18.9% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 75.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Palm Beach Gardens'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Palm Beach Gardens, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Palm Beach Gardens?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.7 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Palm Beach Gardens?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are North Miami (59,429 residents, $51,909 income); Four Corners (60,443 residents, $74,202 income); The Hammocks (58,548 residents, $83,253 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gardena, CA (59,765 residents); Taunton, MA (59,719 residents); White Plains, NY (59,818 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Palm Beach Gardens?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 74.4°F, with 66.0 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Florida is 75.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What does the education layer cover for Palm Beach Gardens?
The NCES join finds 12 public schools within the city match. 56.7% 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 Palm Beach Gardens 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 +4,641 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 677 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
+7.8%
2025 estimate
63,883
2020 estimate
59,242
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Palm Beach Gardens?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.0%, 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.
Household income
$110,563
Home value
$554,300
Value / income
5.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
B-
City profile score · Palm Beach Gardens, FL
67/100
4 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 A+
56.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$110,563
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.0%
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Palm Beach Gardens profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 56.7%
Household income: 82/100 (A-) · $110,563
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 4.0%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Palm Beach Gardens compare to other US cities?
Palm Beach Gardens measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Palm Beach Gardens 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 Palm Beach Gardens near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Palm Beach Gardens ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Palm Beach Gardens only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#105 of 903
88th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#113 of 894
87th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#696 of 930
24th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#81 of 930
91st 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Palm Beach Gardens's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$554,30013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#12,905 of 15,516
More affordable than 17% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#455 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.0×, Palm Beach Gardens sits in the pressured band:
national rank #12,905 of 15,516 and #455 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$110,563Palm Beach Gardens, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Palm Beach Gardens, 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 Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)56.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
59,751
Median Income
$110,563
Median Home Value
$554,300
Median Age
50.1
Poverty Rate
4.0%
Labor force participation
55.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
56.7%
Climate
Avg Temperature
74.4°F
Annual Precipitation
66.0"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Palm Beach Gardens's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
59,242 residents
2021
59,548 residents
2022
60,714 residents
2023
62,187 residents
2024
62,900 residents
2025
63,883 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
677
housing units authorized
Single-Family
675
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
291
220
71
$110.0M
2020
319
253
66
$124.9M
2021
367
285
82
$141.5M
2022
481
481
0
$290.0M
2023
341
341
0
$224.8M
2024
677
675
2
$537.7M
Permit volume increased 133% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.7 minutes
Drive Alone
69.9%
Carpool
7.8%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
18.9%
Other
1.9%
Based on 27,583 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 Palm Beach Gardens. 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 Palm Beach Gardens 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 Palm Beach Gardens sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Palm Beach Gardens 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.