Population, land area, income, home values, and how the village compares with Wellington, Loxahatchee Groves, and The Acreage.
Call (954) 290-5177, Free Estimate →Royal Palm Beach is a village in western Palm Beach County, Florida with a 2020 Census population of 38,932 on 11.34 square miles. It incorporated on June 18, 1959, making it the oldest municipality among the western communities. The Census Bureau estimates 41,948 residents as of July 1, 2024. Per 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey estimates, median household income is $92,382 and median owner-occupied home value is $389,300, with 80.1 percent of homes owner occupied. Despite the name, the village is inland, roughly 15 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
Royal Palm Beach counted 38,932 residents in the 2020 Census, and the U.S. Census Bureau estimates 41,948 residents as of July 1, 2024, growth of about 6.4 percent, so the village is still growing at a healthy clip. It is a mid sized Palm Beach County community: larger than Loxahatchee Groves by a factor of eleven, smaller than Wellington, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, and West Palm Beach.
The profile is suburban and residential: families, homeowners, established neighborhoods, parks, and recreation programs. ZIP codes serving the area include 33411, 33414, and 33470.
Median household income of $92,382 and a median owner-occupied home value of $389,300 (2019-2023 ACS, per Census QuickFacts) place Royal Palm Beach in a practical middle ground for the western communities. The owner-occupied housing rate of 80.1 percent is the highest among these four cities, a genuinely homeowner-dominated market. It costs meaningfully less to buy here than in Wellington, where the median owner-occupied home value is $599,400 (2020-2024 ACS), while offering similar access to jobs, shopping, and schools. That value equation is a big part of why families choose the village.
Royal Palm Beach packs nearly The Acreage's population into about a quarter of the land. It is the compact, planned, suburban option among the western communities, and it has been at this longer than any of its neighbors, incorporating in 1959, decades before Wellington in 1995 or Loxahatchee Groves in 2006.
That 1959 incorporation date is the statistic I think about most on a Royal Palm Beach job. The village has been building homes and pools across seven decades, so two houses on the same street can have completely different pool plumbing eras under the deck. A resurfaced pool can be hiding original pipe from the 1980s.
When a pool here loses water, I never assume the age of what I am testing. The surface finish and the underground plumbing often come from different decades, and the diagnosis has to respect that.
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