Manalapan, Florida.
Typical home $3,856,063 (+11.5% in a year). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$13,613 (+205%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $398,103 +12%
- $3,457,960$3,856,063 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,132,270 +42%
- $2,723,793$3,856,063 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.
- Manalapan$20,240
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Manalapan, FL rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manalapan, Palm Beach County, Florida
Manalapan is a town of 419 people in Palm Beach County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manalapan is a very small town on the Atlantic coast of Palm Beach County, with far fewer residents than most towns in the state. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and home values run well above what is typical across the country. Most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year and no real snow to speak of.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Palm Beach County, some of the largest workplaces are Palm Beach Schools, NextEra Energy and Florida Atlantic University. Commutes are a little longer than many people might expect for a town this small. Across the county, unemployment is a touch higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Norton Museum of Art is an art museum, and the Palm Beach Zoo is a place to see animals close to home. The Society of the Four Arts, also a short drive away, is a botanical garden. For a longer outing, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens offers a botanical garden to wander.
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- 73%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
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 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Palm Beach County
- Palm Beach SchoolsSchool district22,545FTE
- NextEra EnergyCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices4,470
- Florida Atlantic UniversityUniversity or college3,530
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,654
- Boca Raton Regional HospitalGeneral hospital2,406FTE
- The Breakers Palm BeachHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities2,406
- HCA Florida JFK HospitalGeneral hospital2,137FTE
- Bethesda HospitalGeneral hospital2,053FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 917 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 137,371 people in all across the county; Manalapan has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manalapan’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Manalapan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manalapan$3,856,063
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Manalapan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manalapan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.