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SheetFL-ROYAL-PALM-BEACH-FL · Royal Palm Beach, FL 39,089 pop · income 73rd 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 Royal Palm Beach
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Royal Palm Beach on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Warren · lowest
36,955
Warren · lowest
36,955 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #1
Whittier · near
92,374
Whittier · near
92,374 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #2
Lewes · near
92,375
Lewes · near
92,375 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #3
Moreland · near
92,375
Moreland · near
92,375 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #4
Royal Palm Be… · this city
92,382
Royal Palm Be… · this city
92,382 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #5
Ferndale · near
92,391
Ferndale · near
92,391 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #6
Lakewood Ranch · highest
123,471
Lakewood Ranch · highest
123,471 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 Royal Palm 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: 39,089.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Royal Palm Beach - the verdict
Nationally, Royal Palm Beach sits in the 73rd percentile for household income and the 42nd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
73rd
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
42nd
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: Royal Palm Beach, FL
Florida's Royal Palm Beach is a small city, with 39,089 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Royal Palm Beach report a median income of $92,382 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Home values in Royal Palm Beach run a median of $389,300, and the median resident age is 41.5 years. 35.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 366 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 112% from five years earlier. Royal Palm Beach reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1636.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Florida at 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). 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 Royal Palm 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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility 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 Royal Palm Beach, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Royal Palm Beach?
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.
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Navarre (38,988 residents, $98,522 income); Valrico (38,820 residents, $98,451 income); Aventura (39,372 residents, $82,777 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Warren, OH (39,057 residents); Streamwood, IL (39,055 residents); Roy, UT (39,021 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Royal Palm Beach?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Royal Palm Beach?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for Royal Palm Beach?
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.
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 35.8% 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.
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 Royal Palm Beach growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,966 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 366 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
39,511
2025 estimate
42,477
Period change
+7.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Royal Palm Beach?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1636.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 28% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
1636.7
Violent rate
158.9
Property rate
1477.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C+
City profile score · Royal Palm Beach, FL
60/100
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.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B
$92,382
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C
159 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Royal Palm Beach profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Household income: 72/100 (B) · $92,382
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 35.8%
Violent crime: 56/100 (C) · 159 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Royal Palm Beach sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Royal Palm 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 - Royal Palm Beach highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Royal Palm Beach, FL (this city): home $389,300, crime 1,637/100k
Streamwood, IL : home $258,300, crime 835/100k
Roy, UT : home $350,800, crime 1,033/100k
Owasso, OK : home $231,400, crime 1,533/100k
Keizer, OR : home $396,700, crime 2,057/100k
Aventura, FL : home $416,300, crime 4,254/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Royal Palm Beach compare to other US cities?
Royal Palm Beach measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income73% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety42% 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, Royal Palm Beach ranks #55 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 Royal Palm 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 Royal Palm Beach near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Royal Palm Beach ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Royal Palm Beach only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#206 of 903
77th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#243 of 894
73rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#751 of 930
19th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#312 of 930
66th 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
73rd percentile nationally for median household income · 42nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Royal Palm Beach's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Royal Palm 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 Royal Palm Beach's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$389,30024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Royal Palm Beach's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,278 of 15,516
More affordable than 27% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,150 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.2×, Royal Palm Beach sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,278 of 15,516 and #2,150 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$92,382Royal Palm Beach, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Royal Palm 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 Royal Palm Beach, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
39,089
Median Income
$92,382
Median Home Value
$389,300
Median Age
41.5
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
64.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1636.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
158.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1477.8
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Royal Palm Beach's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
39,511 residents
2021
39,525 residents
2022
40,121 residents
2023
40,669 residents
2024
41,682 residents
2025
42,477 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
366
housing units authorized
Single-Family
56
detached homes
Multifamily
310
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
173
173
0
$56.8M
2020
77
72
5
$24.8M
2021
103
93
10
$40.4M
2022
63
63
0
$27.2M
2023
359
146
213
$152.7M
2024
366
56
310
$49.3M
Permit volume increased 112% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.5%
Carpool
7.2%
Public Transit
2.4%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
9.5%
Other
1.5%
Based on 19,808 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 Royal Palm 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 Royal Palm 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 Royal Palm Beach sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Royal Palm 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.