West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach population, 2020 to 2024

West Palm Beach added 10,232 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,727. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 70th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so West Palm Beach is 5.8 times that size.

West Palm Beach covers 53.87 square miles of land and 4.17 of water, for 2,371 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so West Palm Beach is close to the typical town.

What county West Palm Beach is in

All of West Palm Beach's residents live in Palm Beach County, which had 1,582,055 residents in 2024. West Palm Beach holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in West Palm Beach

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap West Palm Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33401, 33405, 33407, 33409, 33411, 33412, 33417. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where West Palm Beach is

The Census internal point of West Palm Beach is at 26.745100, -80.127000. Tallahassee, the capital, is 358.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Coral Springs, FL (140,808 people), 33.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boca Raton, FL, 25.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in West Palm Beach

At 26.75° N, West 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 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the West Palm Beach daylight page.

Places near West Palm Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Mangonia Park, 3.3 miles away, with 2,643 people.