Best PlacesNorth Palm Beach, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around North Palm Beach, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
North Palm Beach ranks 9,364th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in North Palm Beach
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
North Palm Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where North Palm Beach ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 96% of towns
Where North Palm Beach ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,238 a month, better than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in North Palm Beach
A household needs to earn about $181,000 a year to comfortably buy the median North Palm Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $114,568, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses North Palm Beach's effective rate of 0.84%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in North Palm Beach
North Palm Beach runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for North Palm Beach.
Who works in North Palm Beach, and how
Work in North Palm Beach centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 23%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in North Palm Beach
North Palm Beach has more restaurants and bars per resident than 84% of towns and more parkland per resident than 86% of towns. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of North Palm Beach and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in North Palm Beach, month by month
North Palm Beach sees roughly 89 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 78, with lows near 57. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78° | 67° | 57° |
| April | 85° | 76° | 68° |
| July | 92° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 87° | 80° | 73° |
Flying in and out of North Palm Beach
Palm Beach International sits about 10 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.3 million passengers in 2025, with 67 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around North Palm Beach
Schools across North Palm Beach average a B−, better than 50% of towns.
Top middle schools
- Jupiter Middle SchoolA · 62% proficient
- Howell L. Watkins Middle SchoolD+ · 26% proficient
Top high schools
- William T. Dwyer High SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
- Palm Beach Gardens High SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every North Palm Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
North Palm Beach measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare North Palm Beach against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in North Palm Beach
Is North Palm Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, North Palm Beach ranks 9,364th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state infrastructure, walkability, and transit, and lowest on summer heat and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is North Palm Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $686,611. The overall cost of living runs about 17% above the national average. Set against a $114,568 median income, cost of living beats 84% of towns.
Is North Palm Beach safe?
North Palm Beach is safer than 52% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $196 per resident a year.
Compare North Palm Beach with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to North Palm Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in North Palm Beach represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
North Palm Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for North Palm Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in North Palm Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of North Palm Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in North Palm Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
North Palm Beach detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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