Royal Palm EstatesFL
Home to 1,369 people, this town lies in Florida.
Is Royal Palm Estates a good place to live?
Royal Palm Estates’ best subject grade is a B+ for schools; its weakest is a C− for cost of living. 0.6% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Royal Palm Estates, where Florida’s towns sit at 31% and U.S. towns at 29%. Only one of the 639 Florida towns we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Royal Palm Estates. Royal Palm Estates has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Royal Palm Estates has shrunk 35% from 2010 to 2020
3,025 counted in 2010 and 1,974 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Royal Palm Estates grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Royal Palm Estates 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 Royal Palm Estates. Close and well known come first.
38 mi Stadium & arenaAmerant Bank Arena
6 mi MuseumFlagler Museum
34 mi Stadium & arenaChase Stadium
21 mi Stadium & arenaFAU Stadium12 mi Zoo & aquariumLion Country Safari
5 mi MuseumNorton Museum of ArtPhoto 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 Royal Palm Estates: who provides what
Royal Palm Estates is unincorporated, so Palm Beach County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Royal Palm Estates.
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Royal Palm Estates’ workers commute out
Half the trips to work are shorter than 7 miles. Since 2013, Royal Palm Estates has added 38 jobs, to 50 in 2023. In Royal Palm Estates, the typical journey to work is 29 minutes. The top destinations are West Palm Beach (16%), Palm Springs (6%) and Palm Beach Gardens (5%).
| Royal Palm Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 17% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $61,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Royal Palm Estates is less healthy than 74% of U.S. towns
Just over two fifths of Royal Palm Estates adults sleep under 7 hours. On the CDC’s 31 measures, Royal Palm Estates is ahead of Florida on 5 and behind on 15. Among adults in the town, 34% get no exercise outside work and 27% say their health is fair or poor.
| Royal Palm Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 25% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 20% | 19% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Royal Palm Estates | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.9% | 9.1% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 5.9% | 7.5% |
| More uninsured adults | 28.7% | 15.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Royal Palm Estates has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from hurricanes
One declared disaster, in 2017, has brought federal aid to Royal Palm Estates households. Royal Palm Estates’ FEMA hazard score stands at 68 of 100. FEMA puts 57% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to hurricanes, and 34% to inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Expect mild winters and hot summers in Royal Palm Estates
Royal Palm Estates’ peak summer temperature comes in at 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A home in Royal Palm Estates is worth about $408K, on Zillow’s estimate
In Royal Palm Estates, the median rent is $1,736 a month. Typical home values rose 4.3% in the year to September 2026. 70% of households are owner-occupiers in the town.
| Royal Palm Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,736 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 70% | 72% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Royal Palm Estates
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Royal Palm Estates
About 4 of every 100 Royal Palm Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Florida.
1,369 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
About Royal Palm Estates
CDP in Florida, United States
Royal Palm Estates (Fruity Acres) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 1,974 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 16 ft
- Area code
- 561
Questions about Royal Palm Estates
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Royal Palm Estates, FL expensive?
Yes. That is 5.3 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 C−.