Ocean Ridge, Florida.
Typical home $1,484,946 (+5.4% in a year). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$5,122 (+192%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $76,350 +5%
- $1,408,597$1,484,946 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $421,154 +40%
- $1,063,792$1,484,946 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.
- Ocean Ridge$7,794
- 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 Ocean Ridge, FL rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ocean Ridge, Palm Beach County, Florida
Ocean Ridge is a town of 1,830 people in Palm Beach County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ocean Ridge is a small town on Florida's Atlantic coast, and its residents are older than in most American places. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, home values run far above what is typical across the country, and the great majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Poverty is rare here, and winters are mild, with summers that turn hot, plenty of rain through the year, and little or no snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Palm Beach County, the largest workplaces include Palm Beach Schools, NextEra Energy and Florida Atlantic University. The typical commute is a long one, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as is Wakodahatchee Wetlands, a protected area good for a walk among the birds. The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Norton Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 852households
- 80%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 26%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 56°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 74°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Loxahatchee Nwr weather station, 11 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; Ocean Ridge has none 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ocean Ridge’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.
Ocean Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ocean Ridge$1,484,946
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Ocean Ridge 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.
- Ocean Ridge15.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ocean Ridge43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ocean Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ocean Ridge — 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.