Florida · Census place 1254025

Palm Beach, Florida

Palm Beach is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida with an estimated 9,493 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 176th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
9,493
#176 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+2.7%
+247 people
Land area
3.8 sq mi
+ 4.01 sq mi water
Density
2,498 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Palm Beach. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Palm Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Palm Beach added 247 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +86. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 173rd; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Palm Beach is 43% of it.

9,24620209,23520219,31420229,40720239,4932024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 9,250. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Palm Beach covers 3.80 square miles of land and 4.01 of water, for 2,498 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Palm Beach is close to the typical town.

What county Palm Beach is in

All of Palm Beach's residents live in Palm Beach County, which had 1,582,055 residents in 2024. Palm Beach holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palm Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palm Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 33480. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Palm Beach is

The Census internal point of Palm Beach is at 26.694800, -80.041900. Tallahassee, the capital, is 364.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake Worth Beach, FL (44,417 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is West Palm Beach, FL, 6.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
26.694800, -80.041900
DMS
26°41'41.28"N 80°02'30.84"W
UTM
17N 595316.0E 2952990.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
76RXMXV5+W6

Daylight in Palm Beach

At 26.69° N, Palm Beach gets about 13 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palm Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake Clarke Shores, 4.0 miles away, with 3,629 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Palm Beach, FL?

9,493 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 247 (2.7%) from 9,246 in July 2020.

What county is Palm Beach in?

Palm Beach County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Palm Beach?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 33480.

How far is Palm Beach from Tallahassee?

364.7 miles (586.9 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Palm Beach.

What is the nearest larger city to Palm Beach?

Lake Worth Beach, FL, with 44,417 residents, 5.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.