Population, land area, and incorporation facts for one of Palm Beach County's most compact and historic coastal cities.
Call (954) 290-5177, Free Estimate →Lake Worth Beach is a compact coastal city in Palm Beach County. The 2020 Census recorded 42,219 residents on just 5.89 square miles, making it one of the county's densest cities. It was incorporated on June 14, 1913 as the Town of Lake Worth and renamed Lake Worth Beach on March 12, 2019. Recent estimates put the population near 43,365 (2023).
Lake Worth Beach had a 2020 Census population of 42,219, with 2023 estimates near 43,365. It is one of Palm Beach County's more diverse cities: Census data shows a large Hispanic or Latino population and a significant foreign-born population. The city is more urban and compact than western communities like Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, or The Acreage, and its character can change block by block.
At 5.89 square miles, Lake Worth Beach is small by Palm Beach County standards, and that smallness is the point. The city packs a downtown, historic cottage neighborhoods, a municipal beach, a pier, and Intracoastal frontage into a walkable footprint between West Palm Beach and Lantana. Snook Islands Natural Area and Bryant Park sit along the Lake Worth Lagoon on its western shore.
Household income figures for Lake Worth Beach vary notably between sources and survey years, from roughly the low $40,000s in 2019 data to low $60,000s in recent estimates, so treat any single number with caution. What is consistent is the housing profile: historic cottages, older single-family homes, multifamily properties, apartments, and condos, with much of the stock older than in the county's western communities. The city also operates its own electric utility, unlike most neighbors served by Florida Power & Light.
Lake Worth Beach is the small, dense, historic counterweight to its neighbors. Boynton Beach, just south, has nearly twice the population (80,380) on almost three times the land. Jupiter, at the county's north end, has 61,047 residents spread across 21.63 square miles. Lake Worth Beach fits 42,219 people into 5.89 square miles, a density neither neighbor approaches, and it did so largely with housing built decades earlier.
For pool owners, age is the operative statistic. A city incorporated in 1913 has pools that have been resurfaced, patched, and re-plumbed across generations, and older pools are where hidden leaks at skimmers, light niches, and aging plumbing live.
Density and age are what these numbers mean in a backyard. Lake Worth Beach lots are tighter and the homes are older than almost anywhere else we work in the county, and the pools match, older shells, older plumbing, and often several rounds of past repairs.
On a pool like that, the leak is rarely where the last repair was. We test the whole system and document what we find, because on an older pool the history matters as much as the symptom.
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