Lake Park, Florida.
Typical home $416,354 (+5.6% in a year), asking rent $1,902 . Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,243 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,912 +6%
- $394,442$416,354 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,215 +28%
- $325,139$416,354 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Lake Park$2,185
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lake Park, FL rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lake Park, Palm Beach County, Florida
Lake Park is a town of 9,047 people in Palm Beach County. Half its households earn more than $70,954 a year and half less, against $83,581 across Palm Beach County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Palm Beach County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Palm Beach County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Lake Park is a small town in Palm Beach County, and its residents are younger than in many American communities. Incomes run below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across the county, so renting is common here. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still pleasantly warm, and summers are hot and wet, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In town, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Target and Publix Super Markets. A small share of people work from home, and most travel a moderate distance to their jobs.
Things to do. John D. MacArthur Beach State Park is a protected coastal area in or beside town. A short drive away are the Norton Museum of Art, a museum, and the Flagler Museum, another museum. The Society of the Four Arts, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,990households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Palm Beach County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Palm Beach County had 670,798 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 75° and lows near 58°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 72 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Juno Beach weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Lake Park
- Palm Beach County School District22,218
- Florida Atlantic University6,335
- Palm Beach County5,873
- Tenet Coastal Division PBC5,734
- Next Era Energy (Parent Co, FPL)5,598
- Baptist Health South Florida3,135
- Veterans Health Administration2,948
- HCA Healthcare2,612
From the Town of Lake Park’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Business Development Board of Palm Beach County”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lake Park’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Palm Beach County and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
Lake Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lake Park$416,354
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lake Park listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Lake Park20.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lake Park60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lake Park16
Zip codes with a Lake Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lake Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.