Belle Glade vs Lake Park

A side-by-side comparison of Belle Glade and Lake Park: population, income, housing, and more.

Belle Glade and Lake Park are places in Florida. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Belle Glade has the higher population (16,818 vs 9,005 in Lake Park). Lake Park has the higher median household income ($69,274 vs $47,191 in Belle Glade). Lake Park has the higher median home value ($361,700 vs $141,100 in Belle Glade).

Population, income & housing

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
Population	16,818	9,005
Median age	34.7 yrs	35.5 yrs
Median household income	$47,191	$69,274
Median home value	$141,100	$361,700
Median gross rent	$875	$1,396
Housing units	6,216	3,642
Homeownership rate	39.5%	49.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.6%	31.9%
Unemployment rate	12.4%	8.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
Population	19,654 → 16,818 (-14.4%)	8,508 → 9,005 (+5.8%)
Median household income	$24,322 → $47,191 (+94.0%)	$61,705 → $69,274 (+12.3%)
Median home value	$113,400 → $141,100 (+24.4%)	$201,400 → $361,700 (+79.6%)
Median gross rent	$616 → $875 (+42.0%)	$1,140 → $1,396 (+22.5%)

Belle Glade

Population

19,65416,818

Median household income

$24,322$47,191

Median home value

$113,400$141,100

Median gross rent

$616$875

Lake Park

Population

8,5089,005

Median household income

$61,705$69,274

Median home value

$201,400$361,700

Median gross rent

$1,140$1,396

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
Under 5	9.3%	5.4%
5 to 17	17.9%	17.7%
18 to 24	7.8%	7.2%
25 to 34	15.3%	18.8%
35 to 44	9.3%	14.3%
45 to 54	14.7%	13.5%
55 to 64	10.3%	8.3%
65 to 74	9.5%	8.3%
75 and over	6.0%	6.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
White (non-Hispanic)	13.0%	24.3%
Black or African American	51.9%	56.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	1.3%	0.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.8%	3.1%
Two or more races	2.1%	3.1%
Hispanic or Latino	30.9%	12.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
No high school diploma	28.7%	16.2%
High school graduate	34.5%	30.1%
Some college or associate's	22.2%	21.9%
Bachelor's degree	10.5%	23.3%
Graduate or professional degree	4.2%	8.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
Drove alone	72.2%	67.5%
Carpooled	15.6%	14.2%
Public transit	6.3%	2.2%
Walked	1.4%	2.6%
Bicycle	0.5%	0.0%
Worked from home	1.0%	12.4%
Other means	3.0%	1.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
1-unit, detached	38.3%	43.2%
1-unit, attached	4.2%	3.7%
2 to 4 units	20.2%	9.1%
5 to 19 units	14.9%	26.4%
20 or more units	9.7%	17.6%
Mobile home & other	12.7%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Belle Glade	Lake Park
Poverty rate	28.4%	14.5%
Average household size	3.08	2.81
Mean commute (minutes)	24	22
Median year structure built	1980	1977