Best PlacesPalm Beach Gardens, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Palm Beach Gardens, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Palm Beach Gardens ranks 886th of 2,098 U.S. cities 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 Palm Beach Gardens
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.
The best areas in Palm Beach Gardens
The parts of Palm Beach Gardens, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Mirasol & Old Palm
Evergreen & Paloma
Resort Core & Crystal Bay
Gables at Northlake & Horseshoe Acres
San Matera at the Gardens, Crystal Pointe & Frenchmans Reserve
Sandalwood Estates
Scores across Palm Beach Gardens run from about the 20th to the 95th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Palm Beach Gardens' strengths and weaknesses
Where Palm Beach Gardens ranks high
- State infrastructureBetter than 96% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than 89% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 89% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than 86% of cities
Where Palm Beach Gardens ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 2% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 9% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than only 11% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Palm Beach Gardens
A household needs to earn about $185,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Palm Beach Gardens home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $120,561, 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 Palm Beach Gardens' 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 Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach Gardens 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 Palm Beach Gardens.
Who works in Palm Beach Gardens, and how
Work in Palm Beach Gardens 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 75%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach Gardens has more restaurants and bars per resident than 86% of cities and more parkland per resident than 85% of cities. The coast is about 8 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Palm Beach Gardens and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Palm Beach Gardens, month by month
Palm Beach Gardens 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 Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach International sits about 11 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 Palm Beach Gardens
Schools across Palm Beach Gardens average a B, better than 64% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Marsh Pointe ElementaryA+ · 80% proficient
- Timber Trace Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Pierce Hammock Elementary SchoolA · 66% proficient
Top middle schools
- Independence Middle SchoolA+ · 68% proficient
- Western Pines Community MiddleA · 65% proficient
- Watson B. Duncan Middle SchoolA− · 57% 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 Palm Beach Gardens school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Palm Beach Gardens 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 Palm Beach Gardens against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Palm Beach Gardens suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 74% of cities and 21% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Palm Beach Gardens
Is Palm Beach Gardens a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Palm Beach Gardens ranks 886th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on state infrastructure, low taxes, and health care access, and lowest on summer heat and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Palm Beach Gardens expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $705,178. The overall cost of living runs about 15% above the national average. Set against a $120,561 median income, cost of living beats 74% of cities.
Is Palm Beach Gardens safe?
Yes, Palm Beach Gardens is safer than 69% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $177 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Palm Beach Gardens?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 78 with lows near 57. That works out to about 89 pleasant days a year, more than 53% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Palm Beach Gardens?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Mirasol & Old Palm, Evergreen & Paloma, and Resort Core & Crystal Bay. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Palm Beach Gardens with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Palm Beach Gardens. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Palm Beach Gardens 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.
Palm Beach Gardens detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Palm Beach Gardens: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Palm Beach Gardens: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Palm Beach Gardens: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Palm Beach Gardens: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Palm Beach Gardens 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.