Is Haverhill a good place to live?
The best of Haverhill’s subject grades is an A for the outdoors; the weakest is a D for cost of living. Haverhill’s January low is 57°F, above both the Florida town median (51°F) and the median of U.S. towns (22°F). Haverhill's public schools beat 68% of Florida towns on state tests and graduation. Haverhill’s trail density is 1.6 miles per square mile, where Florida’s towns sit at 0.4 and U.S. towns at 0.4. Haverhill's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 98% of U.S. towns. Only 14 of Florida’s 779 towns score lower on history. Haverhill has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Haverhill has grown 25% since 2010
1,873 counted in 2010 and 2,187 in 2020; an estimated 2,314 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Haverhill grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Haverhill is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Amerant Bank Arena and 29 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Haverhill. Close and well known come first.
39 mi Stadium & arenaAmerant Bank Arena
5 mi MuseumFlagler Museum
35 mi Stadium & arenaChase Stadium
22 mi Stadium & arenaFAU Stadium
4 mi MuseumNorton Museum of Art13 mi Zoo & aquariumLion Country SafariPhoto credits
Amerant Bank Arena: Yanjipy, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flagler Museum: Roger Wollstadt from Sarasota, Florida, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Chase Stadium: elisfkc2, CC BY-SA 2.0 · FAU Stadium: Jerseydem, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Norton Museum of Art: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Haverhill: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Haverhill, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Haverhill.
Homes in Haverhill are worth about $503K, by Zillow’s estimate
The typical Haverhill home is worth about $503,000, up 1.1% in a year, 34% above the Florida typical home. Haverhill’s median rent is $1,734 a month.
| Haverhill | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,734 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 78% | 72% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Most of Haverhill’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Haverhill for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs based in Haverhill grew to 235 in 2023, 87 more than in 2013. The top destinations are West Palm Beach (19%), Palm Springs (6%) and Palm Beach Gardens (6%).
| Haverhill | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 5% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8.6% | 11% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Haverhill are less healthy than 73% of U.S. towns
Haverhill beats the Florida average on 2 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 14. 23% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Haverhill.
| Haverhill | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 15% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 20% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Haverhill | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.2% | 9.1% |
| Fewer adults with high cholesterol | 34.9% | 39% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 29.1% | 16.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Younger than Florida overall
People 65 and older are 12% of residents (21% statewide); children under 18 are 26% of residents (20% statewide). Haverhill has grown 6.8% since 2020, to 2,314 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 25% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 34% across Florida.
| Haverhill | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 12% | 20% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 26% | 20% | 22% |
| Median age | 39.4 years | 42.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 25% | 31% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Florida, 50.9% of residents are women.
| Haverhill | FL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.3% | 10.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13.3% | 9.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8% | 8.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11% | 12.7% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.5% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 19.2% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.7% | 13.4% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8% | 11.7% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.9% | 9.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 18.1% | 10.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.8% | 27.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.3% | 18.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.9% | 10.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.3% | 21.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 7.5% | 12.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,300, single groups can be off by several points
High risk in Haverhill, with hurricanes at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 70% of U.S. communities. Since 1998, 6 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Haverhill.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Haverhill has mild winters and hot summers
Haverhill has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Haverhill is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Haverhill
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Haverhill
About 6 of every 100 Haverhill residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Florida.
99% of working residents leave Haverhill for work
Where Haverhill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Haverhill
Town in the state of Florida, United States
Haverhill is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The town is located in east-central Palm Beach County near the western periphery of the Palm Beach International Airport, and is also small geographically, encompassing just 0.63 square miles (1.6 km2). The population of the town was 2,187 as of the 2020 US census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 16 ft
- Area code
- 561
Haverhill’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Haverhill.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haverhill | — | — | D | — | B+ | C |
| Stacey Street | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lake Belvedere Estates | #524 | D | D− | — | B+ | C |
| Royal Palm Estates | — | — | C− | — | B+ | C |
| Westgate | #443 | C− | C | — | B+ | D |
Haverhill and Royal Palm Estates have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Haverhill, Lake Belvedere Estates, Royal Palm Estates and Westgate report no FBI crime data of their own. Stacey Street isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Haverhill with a neighbor →
Questions about Haverhill
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Haverhill, FL expensive?
Yes. That is 6.6 years of the area's median household income ($76,527 across the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.