Palm Beach County
Boca Raton
Boca Raton is an incorporated city in Palm Beach County, but the Boca Raton postal label reaches beyond city limits. The city handles permits, inspections, code, utilities, and municipal services inside the boundary. The county-level directory below leads to property records, taxes, court and election offices, emergency management, the separate school district, and services for unincorporated locations.
- Type
- City
- County
- Palm Beach
- Population
- 101,582
Data notes
Population source: Census Vintage 2025 subcounty population estimates. Florida Revenue November 2025 county planning row: 17.4918 mills for Palm Beach County. Census GEOID: 1207300.
Local front desk
A Boca Raton mailing address may not be in Boca Raton.
Use the city's residency map before opening a municipal file, because some Boca Raton addresses are in unincorporated Palm Beach County or a separate service district. If the parcel is inside the city, the permit page leads to applications, history, fees, inspections, and code-violation records.
Local government
Property and records
People and safety
Local profile checked July 27, 2026. Confirm the address and current instructions on the linked official site.
Open the full Palm Beach County directory ->Address, home, and local records
Home and local tasks in Boca Raton
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Address and ZIP
Separate the mailing label from the local boundary
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Check the address path ->Property tax
Palm Beach County tax planning
The November 2025 county planning row is 17.4918 mills, about $1,749 per $100,000 of taxable value before parcel-specific charges.
Open millage tool ->Storm planning
Check evacuation zone and local alerts
Evacuation zones, shelter plans, county alerts, and local emergency orders can change by exact address.
Open evacuation planner ->Permits and records
Look up the local file
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Open records guide ->Address changes
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Notes about Boca Raton
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Money and taxes
Boca Raton helped put the IBM PC on the desk
Boca Raton's IBM facility helped turn the personal computer into a mainstream business and home tool in 1981.
Read this note ->Outdoors
Gumbo Limbo shows Boca's coast up close
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center gives Boca Raton a hands-on coastal learning stop tied to sea turtles, mangroves, aquariums, and local habitat.
Read this note ->Useful local context
Notes that mention, illustrate, or sit near Boca Raton
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Cars and driving
Palm Tran is Palm Beach's everyday bus layer
Palm Tran gives Palm Beach County a fixed-route bus network, but riders should check current routes, stops, service changes, and fares before relying on it.
Read this note ->Rules and licenses
Florida dog beaches are local pockets, not a beach pass
There is no single Florida dog-beach pass; the city, county, state park, or other land manager sets the rule for the exact beach.
Read this note ->History and culture
Morikami keeps the Yamato Colony story alive
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens near Delray Beach preserves the memory of the Yamato Colony and Japanese farming history in Palm Beach County.
Read this note ->Home and property
Boca Raton's Old Floresta puts Mizner-era homes into the permit file
Old Floresta gives Boca Raton a house-scale historic district where design, charm, and exterior project review meet.
Read this note ->Around Boca Raton
Nearby Florida place pages, ordered by straight-line distance between Census internal points. This is not driving distance.
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Home and local tasks
Property, storms, permits, and offices
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Last checked July 26, 2026. Place names, county coverage, GEOIDs, coordinates, and population labels come from the Census sources in the Florida place data used by this site. County tax planning rows use Florida Revenue November 2025 millage data. The local front desk is a reviewed profile of the city and county split, checked July 27, 2026. Direct note relationships and contextual note paths are kept separate. Parcel values, exemptions, permits, school assignments, storm instructions, utility service, private rules, and final bills still depend on the exact address and the official office or document.
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