The Relocation &
Lifestyle Guide
Palm Beach coastline

Make the Palm Beaches your everyday.

Forty miles of coastline, thirty-nine towns, and a real plan for living here — from rentals you can afford to the programs that get you keys of your own.

The Interactive Map

Thirty-nine towns. One map.

This is the whole county on one canvas — built so you can see how a life here actually fits together before you sign a lease. Toggle the layers to bring what matters to you onto the map: apartments and workforce-designated rentals, the region’s major employers, hospitals and healthcare, A-rated schools, Brightline and Tri-Rail transit, plus the nightlife, run clubs, and community groups that make a zip code feel like home. Hover any pin for the details, then open the commuter calculator to drop in your work address (and your partner’s) and watch it shade the drive-time overlap — surfacing only the rentals that keep everyone’s commute sane.

Layers
Commuter calculator

Everything here is a location — typed in or saved to your shortlist. Tap any row to measure from it.

Your locations
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From your shortlist
Nothing saved yet — tap + on any home, or pin a job from the board, and it shows up here.
Uses your map layers
listings inside your range
Why the Palm Beaches

A coast built for the next chapter, not just the postcard.

39
Cities & towns,
one county
47mi
Atlantic
coastline
230+
Days of
sunshine a year
75°
Average
winter high
110
Parks across
8,500 acres
145+
Golf courses —
Florida’s capital
#1 Best Beach in Florida Delray Beach · USA Today ’26#1 Trending U.S. Destination West Palm Beach · Tripadvisor ’25#1 Best Farmers Market in America WPB GreenMarket · USA Today ’26#1 Best Free Attraction in America Loggerhead Marinelife · USA Today ’25Top 10 Places to Live in Florida Jupiter & PBG · U.S. News
Find an Apartment

The listings live here. Pick your region.

Every rental on the platform is organized into four regions — each with its own price, pace, and personality. Open the one that fits and you’ll land on its live listings: browse homes on the map, filter by budget and beds, and flag workforce-designated rentals.

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North County
Coastal calmBlue-water beaches, working marinas, and a pace that exhales the moment you cross Donald Ross Road.
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Central County
City & shoreDowntown energy and barrier-island calm, a five-minute bridge apart.
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South County
Polished & livelyAtlantic Avenue nights, Mizner-era plazas, and the county’s most walkable downtowns.
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Western & Glades
Room to growMore space, more value, and the county’s biggest head start on owning.
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Belle GladePahokeeLoxahatchee GrovesSouth Bay+ Westlake & unincorporated Glades
Local Living

If you know, you know.

Where locals actually go — pulled straight from the BDB’s 2026–27 Profile magazine. Every one of these is a pin on the map.

For dinner
  • Buccan
  • Harry’s
  • Blackbird
  • Lola 41
  • Pink Steak
  • Houston’s
Cocktails & nightlife
  • Mary Lou’s
  • Rosewater Rooftop
  • Stanza Lounge
  • Living Room at The Colony
  • Voodoo Bayou
Shopping & lifestyle
  • Worth Avenue
  • Nora District
  • Royal Poinciana Plaza
  • Mizner Park
  • CityPlace
Culture & entertainment
  • Norton Museum of Art
  • Kravis Center
  • Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse
  • Manatee Lagoon
  • Lion Country Safari
Golf & outdoors
  • The Park Golf Course
  • PGA National
  • National Polo Center
  • Winter Equestrian Festival
  • Torry Island, Belle Glade
The full Palm Beach
  • The Breakers
  • The Colony Hotel
  • Café Boulud
  • The Boca Raton
  • The River House, PBG
See local favorites on the map From Profile: Palm Beach County Business, 2026–27 edition · bdb.org
Tools & Resources

Do you qualify for workforce housing?

Thousands of apartments across the county are reserved at below-market rents for the people who work here — nurses, teachers, firefighters, and young professionals alike. More than 4,000 workforce and affordable units were completed, under construction, or approved in 2024 alone, and most people who qualify don't know they do.

Workforce Housing Qualifier Beta

Two questions. No paperwork. See where you land — then see the apartments that match.

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$

Estimate only, using 2025 HUD income figures for Palm Beach County. Actual eligibility is verified by each property and PBC Housing & Economic Development. Not a guarantee of qualification.

60–80% AMI81–100% AMI101–120% AMI121–140% AMI
The Relocation Toolkit

Everything else you'll need — in one place.

The programs, people, and paperwork that turn a move into a life here.

License & registration
30 days to get a Florida license and register vehicles.
Set up utilities
FPL, water & waste — start most online before you arrive.
Enroll in schools
Enrollment, boundaries, and school choice countywide.
Getting around, without the guesswork
Brightline and Tri-Rail on the coast, 20+ Palm Tran bus routes, free on-demand shuttles (Circuit in PBG & Lake Worth Beach, Freebee in Wellington), and Park & Ride lots out west.
See routes & stations on the map
Brightline — WPB & BocaTri-Rail — 5 county stationsCircuit & Freebee — free shuttlesPark & RideLive arrivals: Transit App ↗
Mobility data provided by our partner WPBgo · WPBgo.com ↗
Hurricane readiness
Know your zone, build a kit — the local rite of passage.
Hear from Locals
I moved down for a job and stayed for the morning swims. Three years in, I bought two blocks from the water — something I never thought I could do here.
Maya R.  /  Marketing lead, moved from Atlanta  /  Lake Worth Beach
Brightline gets me to a Miami client meeting and back before dinner. I traded a brutal commute for a ten-minute bike ride to the office.
Devin T.  /  Software engineer, moved from Austin  /  West Palm Beach
The Hometown Heroes program covered most of my down payment. I went from renting to owning my first place in under a year.
Carla M.  /  ICU nurse, first-time buyer  /  Boynton Beach
Atlantic Avenue has the energy I missed from the city, without the burnout. My team actually wants to come into the office now.
Jordan P.  /  Startup founder, moved from New York  /  Delray Beach
We wanted space, good schools, and weekends outside. Out west we got all three — for less than our old one-bedroom up north.
Priya & Sam  /  Teachers, moved from Chicago  /  Wellington
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