Palm Beach County
Palm Beach
Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, across the Intracoastal Waterway from West Palm Beach. The town keeps its own planning, building, records, and parking systems, so an address elsewhere in the county or in West Palm Beach may point to a different local office.
- Type
- Town
- County
- Palm Beach
- Population
- 9,423
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: 1254025.
Local front desk
The island town has its own permit and parking desks.
Use the town's Planning, Zoning and Building Department for development review, permits, business tax receipts, flood maps, landmark review, and records. Use Park in Palm Beach for resident, visitor, townwide, and nonresident placard options. Confirm the address before applying; eligibility and the responsible government follow the property, not the broader Palm Beach name.
Local government
Property and records
People and safety
Local profile checked August 3, 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 Palm Beach
Start with the exact address, then use the task to choose the state agency, county office, city department, school district, utility, emergency manager, insurer, lender, or private document that handles the detail.
Address and ZIP
Separate the mailing label from the local boundary
The postal city, ZIP Code, county, municipality, parcel, school district, evacuation zone, and utility area can describe different parts of the same address.
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
Building permits, code cases, liens, zoning, business tax receipts, and utility records may sit with Palm Beach County, a city, or a district.
Open records guide ->Address changes
Update the records that follow the address
Mail forwarding does not update a driver record, vehicle record, voter file, property mail, insurance, utilities, schools, or private accounts.
Open address checklist ->Direct Porch Notes
Notes about Palm Beach
These entries have been reviewed as directly about this place or its local area.
History and culture
Lilly Pulitzer's shift dress started at a juice stand
Lilly Pulitzer's bright shift dress began as a Palm Beach juice-stand uniform designed to hide citrus stains.
Read this note ->Money and taxes
Worth Avenue keeps Palm Beach shopping in the town story
Worth Avenue is part of Palm Beach's winter shopping story, in a town shaped by hotels, railroad travel, local rules, and seasonal life.
Read this note ->Useful local context
Notes that mention, illustrate, or sit near Palm Beach
These links can help with the next question, but the rule or subject may be statewide, countywide, regional, or only nearby.
Outdoors
Lake Worth Lagoon is Palm Beach's working water
Lake Worth Lagoon sits between mainland cities and barrier-island views, so Palm Beach County water plans often start with this living, working lagoon.
Read this note ->History and culture
Whitehall shows how Palm Beach became a season
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's Palm Beach mansion, shows how railroads, winter wealth, and Gilded Age design helped shape the island's image.
Read this note ->Home and property
Sea Gull Cottage keeps Palm Beach's oldest house story close
Sea Gull Cottage gives Palm Beach a small-house landmark story, with an 1880s cottage, a rescue move, and a restored place by Lake Worth.
Read this note ->Around Palm Beach
Nearby Florida place pages, ordered by straight-line distance between Census internal points. This is not driving distance.
Source habit
Start from Palm Beach.
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Home and local tasks
Property, storms, permits, and offices
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Open tasks ->County context
Open Palm Beach County
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Open county ->Place notes
Local and related notes
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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 August 3, 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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