Riviera Beach, Florida.
Typical home $409,986 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $2,716 (+4.4%). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,187 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,005 +1%
- $403,981$409,986 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,829 +23%
- $332,157$409,986 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.
- Riviera Beach$2,152
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Riviera Beach, FL rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Riviera Beach, FL rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Riviera Beach runs $170/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $590 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,886 a month against $2,716 rent: a $2,152 mortgage payment, plus $295 property tax and $439 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Riviera 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$2,886
- Renting$2,716
- Mortgage only$2,152
Property tax · $295/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 · $439/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 Riviera Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
Riviera Beach is a city of 37,604 people in Palm Beach County. Half its households earn more than $68,060 a year and half less, against $83,581 across Palm Beach County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Riviera Beach was 5.3% in August 2026, and Palm Beach County had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Riviera Beach is a coastal city in Palm Beach County where most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are not far behind. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high, so housing is a real stretch for many households. Winters are mild and summers hot, and the year brings a great deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the biggest workplaces in the city itself are in shipping and delivery and warehousing, among them Tropical Shipping USA, UPS and Amazon. Most people have a commute of some length, and a modest number work from home.
Things to do. Several museums are a short drive away, including the Norton Museum of Art and the Flagler Museum. For time outdoors, John D. MacArthur Beach State Park is a protected area a short drive off, and Mounts Botanical Garden is another short drive. Suncoast Stadium is in or beside town.
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- 13,927households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%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 74° and lows near 56°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 75°. About 66 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palm Beach Gardens weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Riviera Beach
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center3,000
- Palm Beach County School Board1,950
- Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company1,052
- Cheney Brothers1,050
- United Parcel Service580
- City of Riviera Beach560
- Sysco Food Services331
- Pepsi Cola Bottling Company300
From the City of Riviera Beach’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Business Development Board of Palm Beach County City of Riviera Beach Finance and Administrative Services Department”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riviera 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.
Riviera Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riviera Beach$409,986
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Riviera Beach listings, and the typical home goes pending in 72 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.
- Riviera Beach18.27%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Riviera Beach72
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Riviera Beach367
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Riviera Beach53
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Riviera Beach$424,065
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Riviera Beach94.71%
Zip codes with a Riviera Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riviera Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.