Royal Palm Estates has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. 50 jobs are based in Royal Palm Estates for 787 working residents. Royal Palm Estates grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Royal Palm Estates, in brief
Royal Palm Estates is a place people come home to
There are 50 jobs based in Royal Palm Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Royal Palm Estates has about 630 people in it, 54% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Royal Palm Estates and West Palm Beach trade workers both ways
West Palm Beach is the top workplace for Royal Palm Estates residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Royal Palm Estates come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 787 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Royal Palm Estates
On income, poverty and job access, Royal Palm Estates is better than 43% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Royal Palm Estates’ grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Royal Palm Estates’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Royal Palm Estates could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Who works in Royal Palm Estates, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 786 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 49 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Royal Palm Estates on a workday afternoon, 54% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Royal Palm Estates ends
Where Royal Palm Estates clocks in
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Royal Palm Estates works in goods: 40% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Royal Palm Estates, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 50. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Royal Palm Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Royal Palm Estates: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Royal Palm Estates workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 708 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The commute from Royal Palm Estates, by distance
About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Royal Palm Estates, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Royal Palm Estates is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 755 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Royal Palm Estates households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Royal Palm Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800, Royal Palm Estates comes 2,227th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 46 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,225 | Bergen WI | 1,363 | $77K | 9.9% | 1.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,226 | Townsend WI | 1,084 | $88K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,227 | Royal Palm Estates FL | 1,369 | $61K | 16.9% | 7.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,228 | Charleston ME | 1,644 | $75K | 6.4% | 1.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,229 | Cushing ME | 1,482 | $84K | 7.7% | 3.6% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Royal Palm Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Around Royal Palm Estates: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Royal Palm Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Palm Estates | – | C+ | B− | 29 min | $60,532 |
| Lake Belvedere Estates | under 3% | C+ | B− | 24 min | $76,036 |
| Haverhill | under 3% | B+ | B | 28 min | $79,787 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Royal Palm Estates’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Royal Palm Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Royal Palm Estates?
$60,532 (±$24,447) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Royal Palm Estates?
16.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Royal Palm Estates?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Royal Palm Estates work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Palm Beach (16%, 4 mi), Palm Springs (6%, 4 mi), Palm Beach Gardens (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Royal Palm Estates walkable?
Royal Palm Estates is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Royal Palm Estates without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Royal Palm Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Royal Palm Estates
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.