Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
Typical home $442,035 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $2,357 (+3.3%). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,344 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,997 +1%
- $436,038$442,035 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,949 +30%
- $341,087$442,035 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 Worth Beach$2,320
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lake Worth Beach, FL rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Lake Worth Beach, FL rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Lake Worth Beach runs $754/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,082 in May 2024.
That is $3,111 a month against $2,357 rent: a $2,320 mortgage payment, plus $318 property tax and $473 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lake Worth Beach
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,111
- Renting$2,357
- Mortgage only$2,320
Property tax · $318/mo 0.86% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Palm Beach County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $473/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lake Worth Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
Lake Worth Beach is a city of 42,219 people in Palm Beach County. Half its households earn more than $61,200 a year and half less, against $83,581 across Palm Beach County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Lake Worth Beach was 4.3% in August 2026, and Palm Beach County had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then construction.
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 Worth Beach is a city on Florida's Atlantic coast, in Palm Beach County. Its residents are younger than in much of the county, and incomes run well below the county's, with more people living below the poverty line than is typical there. Most homes are rented rather than owned, and homes and rents here are priced well above what its incomes would suggest. Winters are mild even in January, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Publix Super Markets, Avante at Lake Worth and Terraces of Lake Worth Care Center. Unemployment is a little higher than a year ago, while jobs across the county have grown only slightly. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people commute by a trip of moderate length, with few working from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Lake Worth Historical Museum tells the local story. A short drive away are the Norton Museum of Art, which is an art museum, and the Flagler Museum, which is a historic house museum. The Palm Beach Zoo and Mounts Botanical Garden are also a short drive off, and John D. MacArthur Beach State Park, a protected stretch of coast, is a longer drive away.
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- 15,493households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents 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 90° and lows near 76°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Palm Beach International Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake Worth Beach
- Eastern Metal Supply Lake WorthPig iron merchant wholesalers252
- Avante at Lake WorthSkilled nursing facility148
- Terraces of Lake Worth Care CenterNursing homes141
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores140
- Sovereign Healthcare HoldingsSkilled nursing facilities131
- American Medical Response120
- Praesum Healthcare ServicesRehabilitation hospitals, alcoholism and drug addiction112
- Yellowstone Landscape - SoutheastLandscape care and maintenance services97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,856 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Lake Worth BeachRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lake Worth Beach’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 Worth Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lake Worth Beach$442,035
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lake Worth Beach listings, and the typical home goes pending in 39 days — the market is heating up.
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 Worth Beach23.65%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lake Worth Beach39
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lake Worth Beach1,103
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lake Worth Beach247
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lake Worth Beach$452,621
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Lake Worth Beach96.32%
Zip codes with a Lake Worth Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lake Worth Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lake Worth Beach
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33467 | Lake Worth | 58,411 | $2,664 | $492,262 |
| 33460 | Lake Worth Beach | 37,795 | $1,962 | $385,522 |
| 33462 | Lake Worth | 33,371 | $2,416 | $389,875 |