West Palm Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, home to about 122,290 people across 54 square miles. Its ZIP codes are 33401, 33405, 33407, 33409, 33412 and 33417, and parts of 33411 are in West Palm Beach too.
Homes sold for a median of $349 per square foot across 6 ZIP codes in the three months ending August 2026, and 0 of 6 were seller’s markets.
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Mostly West Palm Beach; also Riviera Beach and Mangonia Park
Mostly West Palm Beach; also Westgate
Mostly West Palm Beach; also Palm Beach Gardens and The Acreage
Mostly West Palm Beach; also Haverhill and Plantation Mobile Home Park
Mostly Royal Palm Beach; part is in West Palm Beach
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Settlers began homesteading around Lake Worth in the 1870s, but West Palm Beach itself was a creation of Henry M. Flagler. Scouting a route south for his Florida East Coast Railway in 1892, Flagler bought two lakefront properties on the mainland across from Palm Beach island, where he was building the Royal Poinciana Hotel. He laid out a 48-block grid with streets named for local plants as a commercial and residential town to serve his hotels, and the first lots were auctioned on February 4, 1894. Clematis Street became the town's center that year, and on November 5, 1894, residents voted to incorporate. After two fires burned much of the business district in 1896, the town required stone or brick construction downtown.
When Palm Beach County was created in 1909, West Palm Beach became the county seat, and the courthouse completed in 1916 still stands as the home of the county history museum. The West Palm Beach Canal, finished in 1917, made the city the shipping point for farm produce from the interior, and the Seaboard Air Line Railway arrived in 1925. Property values quadrupled during the early-1920s land boom, which produced many of the city's historic neighborhoods, before hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 brought destruction and the boom collapsed.
Morrison Field, the county airport, was dedicated in 1936 and became an Army Air Corps base in 1942, bringing thousands of service members to the area; many returned after the war, beginning a long era of development that continued into the 2000s. By 2013, when it was named a Preserve America Community, the city had 16 locally designated historic districts, 11 of them also on the National Register, and its district map has continued to grow since.
West Palm Beach sits on the mainland shore of Lake Worth, across the water from Palm Beach, with the original downtown grid centered on Clematis Street and the waterfront and residential neighborhoods spreading out from there. Housing ranges from early twentieth-century bungalows and Mediterranean Revival houses in the historic districts to neighborhoods built during the long postwar growth period.
The city's historic districts are a large part of its housing stock. Grandview Heights, platted in the 1910s and 1920s on the Atlantic Ridge just south of Okeechobee Boulevard and listed on the National Register in 1999, is made up mostly of Craftsman and Mission-style bungalows less than a mile from downtown. A cluster of districts carries the Northwood name, including Old Northwood, West Northwood, Northwood Hills, Northwood Harbor and Northwood Road; others include Northboro Park, Central Park, El Cid, Flamingo Park, Prospect/Southland Park, Vedado-Hillcrest, Mango Promenade, Belair, Sunshine Park and the Clematis Street commercial district. Many older buildings use the Mediterranean Revival style, built with local materials such as coral stone and slow-growth Dade County pine.
City parks are spread through the neighborhoods, among them Currie Park on North Flagler Drive with water access, Howard Park with its tennis and pickleball center, and Gaines, Coleman and South Olive parks with community centers. City parks are open sunrise to sunset.
West Palm Beach has several rail options. Tri-Rail commuter trains serve two stations in the area: West Palm Beach station, which Tri-Rail lists as the stop for most city destinations and for the airport, and Mangonia Park station to the north, near FITTEAM Ballpark and the VA medical center. Brightline's West Palm Beach station has trains south to Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Aventura and Miami and north to Orlando; as of 2023 Brightline cited a trip of about 40 minutes between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
Palm Tran buses, the county system, connect the city with the rest of Palm Beach County, and routes 1, 20, 41, 43, 49 and 60 meet the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station. Downtown, the city's free trolley runs Green and Yellow lines serving downtown.
By car, Interstate 95 runs north-south through the city, with Florida's Turnpike farther west, and Okeechobee Boulevard is a principal east-west route into downtown. Palm Beach County's main international airport, which opened as Morrison Field in 1936, is close by, and Tri-Rail's West Palm Beach station is its rail stop. Downtown, the Clematis Street area and the waterfront along Flagler Drive are compact enough to cover on foot or by trolley.
The Norton Museum of Art on South Dixie Highway opened in 1941 in an Art Deco building founded by Ralph and Elizabeth Norton and holds more than 8,900 works in European, American, Asian, contemporary and photography collections; a Foster + Partners expansion that reopened in 2019 added new galleries, an auditorium and a sculpture garden. The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on Okeechobee Boulevard, open since 1992, presents Broadway tours, classical concerts and touring acts in Dreyfoos Hall and smaller stages, and hosts Palm Beach Opera, Miami City Ballet and the Palm Beach Symphony. The Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum, run by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County in the restored 1916 courthouse on North Dixie Highway, has free general admission and rotating exhibits.
Downtown along Clematis Street, itself a historic district, the Centennial Fountain in Centennial Square runs music-synchronized water shows, and the waterfront has free public boat docks, including a 440-foot dock at the foot of Clematis Street. The Mandel Public Library is the city library, and the city also runs a GreenMarket and the Lake Pavilion.
For open space, Grassy Waters Preserve, a reservoir and nature preserve in the city's northwest, has a nature center, and The Park is a municipal golf course. Free volunteer-led historical tours of Woodlawn Cemetery on South Dixie Highway are scheduled to resume in October 2026, and neighborhood parks host seasonal events such as the fall festival at Gaines Park.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | President Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)7 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Miami, FL68 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of West Palm Beach; driving is longer.
Source: Airports from OurAirports (scheduled passenger service); city centers and populations from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: Members of Congress from the congress-legislators project; districts from the Census Bureau’s relationship files; governor and mayor from Wikidata.
West Palm Beach had 117,415 residents in the 2020 census, up 43% since 2000.
It’s the 18th largest of 954 towns in Florida by population.
Palm Beach County grew from 5,577 residents in 1910 to 1,492,191 in 2020.
Palm Beach County, 1910–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 89°F in summer, and winter lows average 56°F. About 66.2 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Palm Beach Gardens, FL weather station (5 miles away).
592,227 jobs at 55,803 businesses in Palm Beach County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
2,636 doctors and other health care providers list an office in West Palm Beach’s ZIP codes.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 237 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 520 |
| Dentists | 132 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 538 |
| Mental health providers | 882 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 221 |
| Optometrists | 26 |
| Chiropractors | 80 |
| Pharmacies | 71 |
Source: Hospitals from CMS Hospital General Information (ratings are CMS overall star ratings); straight-line distances; providers from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), by practice address and primary specialty.
Parks (11 nearby)
Grocery stores (10 nearby)
Pharmacies (5 nearby)
Libraries (3 nearby)
Museums
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 5 miles of the center of town.
Source: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), as mapped by volunteers; it can miss places or include closed ones.
Established in 1884.
Colleges and universities
Notable people born here
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Palm Beach. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belvedere Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 467 | Public | 8.2 mi |
| Benoist Farms Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 430 | Public | 3.4 mi |
| Connections Education Center of the Palm BeachesWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 92 | Charter, Special Education | 6.6 mi |
| Egret Lake Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 547 | Public | 3.2 mi |
| Ese Hospital Homebound Instructional ServicesWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–12 | — | Special Education | 6.2 mi |
| Golden Grove Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 956 | Public | 5.9 mi |
| Grassy Waters Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 705 | Public | 2.6 mi |
| Hope-Centennial Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 802 | Public | 4.9 mi |
| Northboro Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 728 | Public | 7.2 mi |
| Northmore Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 710 | Public | 6.6 mi |
| Palmetto Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 508 | Public | 9.2 mi |
| Pleasant City Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 315 | Public | 7.3 mi |
| Roosevelt Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 315 | Public | 6.7 mi |
| Seminole Trails Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 683 | Public | 3.5 mi |
| South Olive Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 504 | Public | 10.1 mi |
| Teen Parent Program - PkRiviera Beach | Pre-K–K | 25 | Public | 6.1 mi |
| U. B. Kinsey/Palmview ElementaryWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 496 | Public | 7.1 mi |
| West Gate Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 767 | Public | 6.1 mi |
| Westward Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 512 | Public | 6.3 mi |
| Wynnebrook Elementary SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–5 | 629 | Public | 4.6 mi |
| Everglades ElementaryWest Palm Beach | K–5 | 818 | Public | 5.8 mi |
| Indian Ridge SchoolWest Palm Beach | K–12 | 73 | Special Education | 3.2 mi |
| Renaissance Charter School at CypressWest Palm Beach | K–8 | 728 | Charter | 3.1 mi |
| Renaissance Charter School at West Palm BeachWest Palm Beach | K–8 | 1,014 | Charter | 5.5 mi |
| University Preparatory Academy Palm BeachWest Palm Beach | K–8 | 246 | Charter | 6.6 mi |
| Highridge Family CenterWest Palm Beach | 3–12 | 18 | Alternative Education | 6.2 mi |
| Alternative Program CentralWest Palm Beach | 4–12 | 12 | Alternative Education | 6.3 mi |
| Palm Beach Regional Detention CenterWest Palm Beach | 4–12 | 51 | Alternative Education | 6.3 mi |
| Bak Middle School of the ArtsWest Palm Beach | 6–8 | 1,246 | Public | 5.3 mi |
| Bear Lakes Middle SchoolWest Palm Beach | 6–8 | 841 | Public | 4.1 mi |
And 10 more.
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Step Above Learning CenterWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–TK | 7 | Nonsectarian | 7.9 mi |
| Berean Christian SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–12 | 642 | Baptist | 3.3 mi |
| Conklin International AcademyWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 15 | Christian (no specific denomination) | 3.3 mi |
| Conklin International AcademyWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 10 | Christian (no specific denomination) | 4.6 mi |
| Our Sacred Academy Inc.West Palm Beach | Pre-K–10 | 27 | Nonsectarian | 4.9 mi |
| Palm Beach Christian AcademyWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–6 | 76 | Baptist | 8.1 mi |
| Rosarian AcademyWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 363 | Roman Catholic | 7.8 mi |
| St Ann Catholic SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 272 | Roman Catholic | 7.8 mi |
| St Juliana Catholic SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 393 | Roman Catholic | 9.2 mi |
| The Greene SchoolWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–8 | 180 | Nonsectarian | 8.2 mi |
| The King's AcademyWest Palm Beach | Pre-K–12 | 1,635 | Christian (no specific denomination) | 4.3 mi |
| Forest Trail AcademyWest Palm Beach | K–12 | 571 | Nonsectarian | 3.0 mi |
| The Foundations School at Center for Creative EducWest Palm Beach | K–5 | 65 | Nonsectarian | 4.8 mi |
| The Bilgrav SchoolWest Palm Beach | 1–8 | 20 | Nonsectarian | 7.9 mi |
| The Bilgrav SchoolWest Palm Beach | 2–8 | 18 | Nonsectarian | 7.9 mi |
| Obridge Academy/Admin OfficeWest Palm Beach | 3–12 | 501 | Nonsectarian | 7.8 mi |
| Coates Learning Center, Inc.West Palm Beach | 5–12 | 13 | Nonsectarian | 5.4 mi |
| Oxbridge AcademyWest Palm Beach | 6–12 | 603 | Nonsectarian | 4.2 mi |
| Cardinal Newman High SchoolWest Palm Beach | 9–12 | 634 | Roman Catholic | 5.6 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools; Private School Universe Survey (2023-2024) for private schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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