Royal Palm Beach is a medium-sized village located in the state of Florida. With a population of 39,043 people and seven constituent neighborhoods, Royal Palm Beach is the 89th largest community in Florida.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Royal Palm Beach is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Royal Palm Beach is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Royal Palm Beach who work in sales jobs (10.97%), office and administrative support (10.42%), and management occupations (9.22%).
Also of interest is that Royal Palm Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Royal Palm Beach is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Royal Palm Beach, the average commute to work is 30.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, Royal Palm Beach is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.68% of adults in Royal Palm Beach have a college degree.
The per capita income in Royal Palm Beach in 2018 was $31,785, which is middle income relative to Florida, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,140 for a family of four. However, Royal Palm Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Royal Palm Beach is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Royal Palm Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Royal Palm Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or 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 25.76% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Royal Palm Beach include Haitian, German, Irish, Italian, and Jamaican.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Royal Palm Beach's cultural character, accounting for 27.74% of the village’s population.
The most common language spoken in Royal Palm Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.