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Renting an Apartment in North Palm Beach
North Palm Beach is an incorporated village in Palm Beach County, Florida,
United States. The population was 12,064 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the
population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 12,645. The village won an
award from the National Association of Home Builders as best planned community
of 1956, and is home to a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.
History
North Palm Beach was developed in the mid 1950s, sitting on former mangrove
swamps and farm land. The area to become North Palm Beach was punctuated only by
Monet Road and Johnson Dairy Road to the north and south and US-1 and Prosperity
Farms Road to the east and west. Full scale development and incorporation as a
village occurred nearly simultaneously in 1956, with extensive dredging creating
waterfront cul-de-sacs, and the development of a new east-west artery,
Lighthouse Drive, connecting Old Dixie Highway and the newly aligned US-1. US-1
was widened and became the main office and civic corridor. In 1958/1959, North
Palm Beach elected Walter E. Thomas, Jr. as its first Mayor. Walt and his wife
Jackie and four children (Ted, Larry, Jim, and Pam) were the 55th family to move
in to the Village arriving in 1957.
Lake Park West Road was also extended from Old Dixie Highway to US-1 and was
renamed Northlake Boulevard, becoming the village's main commercial corridor.
Twin City Mall, an enclosed shopping center, opened in 1970 at the corner of
Northlake Boulevard and US-1 as Palm Beach County's second enclosed shopping
mall. This Mall built onto the previous grocery store/strip mall completed in
1959. The mall contained a Sears, Jeffersons and GC Murphy's department stores,
as well as the locally popular Karmelcorn and Orange Bowl eateries. The mall
also sported one of the few movie theaters in the vicinity. The enclosed mall
was demolished in the mid-1990s and has gradually been replaced by a mid-sized
strip mall anchored by Publix. The village has maintained relative prosperity
due to the many waterfront homes with Atlantic Ocean access as well as the
overall jump in development in northern Palm Beach County in the last 10 years.
In 2006, village resident Jack Nicklaus redesigned the towns golf course and it
reopened in late 2006 to rave reviews. Nicklaus charged the Village of North
Palm Beach $1 for his services.
Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 12,064 people, 6,196 households, and
3,327 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,308.4/km˛
(3,388.0/mi˛). There were 7,325 housing units at an average density of 794.4/km˛
(2,057.1/mi˛). The racial makeup of the village was 96.22% White (93.4% were
Non-Hispanic White,) 0.93% African American, 0.09% Native American, 1.22% Asian,
0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.50% from other races, and 1.02% from two or more
races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.53% of the population.
There were 6,196 households out of which 15.1% had children under the age of 18
living with them, 45.4% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 46.3% were non-families. 39.3% of all
households were made up of individuals and 19.1% had someone living alone who
was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.95 and the
average family size was 2.58.
In the village the population was spread out with 14.3% under the age of 18,
3.9% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 30.8% who were
65 years of age or older. The median age was 50 years. For every 100 females
there were 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.1
males.
The median income for a household in the village was $53,163, and the median
income for a family was $69,104. Males had a median income of $41,709 versus
$32,080 for females. The per capita income for the village was $39,564. About
1.3% of families and 3.9% of the population were below the poverty line,
including 0.9% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 92.78% of all
residents, while Spanish consisted of 3.91%, French was at 1.32%, German made up
0.92%, Italian 0.66%, and Greek was the mother tongue of 0.39% of the
population.
Points of Interest
* John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. is located nearby.