Royal Palm Beach is a medium-sized village located in the state of Florida. With a population of 21,564 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Royal Palm Beach is the 121st largest community in Florida.

Royal Palm Beach is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Royal Palm Beach is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Royal Palm Beach who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.09%), sales jobs (10.46%), and management occupations (10.11%).

In Royal Palm Beach, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.56 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Residents of Royal Palm Beach by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented village. While Royal Palm Beach may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

As is often the case in a small village, Royal Palm Beach doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Royal Palm Beach Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Royal Palm Beach is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 24.04% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Royal Palm Beach in 2000 was $21,875, which is upper middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,500 for a family of four.

Royal Palm Beach is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Royal Palm Beach home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Royal Palm Beach is White, followed by African-American. Royal Palm Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.97% of the village's residents. Important ancestries of people in Royal Palm Beach include Italian, German, Irish, English, Jamaican, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Royal Palm Beach is English. Some people also speak Spanish.