Belle Glade vs Palm Beach

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

Belle Glade and Palm Beach 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 9,234 in Palm Beach). Palm Beach has the higher median household income ($175,078 vs $47,191 in Belle Glade). Palm Beach has the higher median home value ($1,996,700 vs $141,100 in Belle Glade).

Population, income & housing

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
Population	16,818	9,234
Median age	34.7 yrs	69.7 yrs
Median household income	$47,191	$175,078
Median home value	$141,100	$1,996,700
Median gross rent	$875	$1,849
Housing units	6,216	10,450
Homeownership rate	39.5%	82.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.6%	68.4%
Unemployment rate	12.4%	4.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
Population	19,654 → 16,818 (-14.4%)	8,723 → 9,234 (+5.9%)
Median household income	$24,322 → $47,191 (+94.0%)	$141,348 → $175,078 (+23.9%)
Median home value	$113,400 → $141,100 (+24.4%)	$1,177,100 → $1,996,700 (+69.6%)
Median gross rent	$616 → $875 (+42.0%)	$1,744 → $1,849 (+6.0%)

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

Palm Beach

Population

8,7239,234

Median household income

$141,348$175,078

Median home value

$1,177,100$1,996,700

Median gross rent

$1,744$1,849

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
Under 5	9.3%	1.5%
5 to 17	17.9%	3.6%
18 to 24	7.8%	1.2%
25 to 34	15.3%	2.7%
35 to 44	9.3%	3.1%
45 to 54	14.7%	6.9%
55 to 64	10.3%	19.0%
65 to 74	9.5%	23.4%
75 and over	6.0%	38.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
White (non-Hispanic)	13.0%	90.2%
Black or African American	51.9%	0.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.4%
Asian	1.3%	1.1%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.8%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.1%	1.9%
Hispanic or Latino	30.9%	6.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
No high school diploma	28.7%	2.6%
High school graduate	34.5%	10.8%
Some college or associate's	22.2%	18.1%
Bachelor's degree	10.5%	33.0%
Graduate or professional degree	4.2%	35.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
Drove alone	72.2%	44.8%
Carpooled	15.6%	1.1%
Public transit	6.3%	1.1%
Walked	1.4%	7.2%
Bicycle	0.5%	0.0%
Worked from home	1.0%	37.6%
Other means	3.0%	8.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
1-unit, detached	38.3%	26.3%
1-unit, attached	4.2%	1.8%
2 to 4 units	20.2%	4.5%
5 to 19 units	14.9%	7.0%
20 or more units	9.7%	60.4%
Mobile home & other	12.7%	0.1%

Poverty & households

	Belle Glade	Palm Beach
Poverty rate	28.4%	6.5%
Average household size	3.08	1.69
Mean commute (minutes)	24	27
Median year structure built	1980	1971