THE PALM BEACH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Everglades setting.
Palm Beach County has 1,964.3 square miles of land in Florida. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Palm Beach County: Everglades, Eastern Florida Flatwoods, Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip.
Very low-relief southern Florida terrain includes marsh, swamp, Everglades and palmetto-prairie settings. Small elevation differences can correspond to substantial changes in vegetation and water conditions.
Regional context: Southern Florida Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Palm Beach County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Everglades67.2%
- Eastern Florida Flatwoods18.9%
- Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip13.9%
Southern Coastal Plain in Palm Beach County
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Palm Beach County
The atlas lists 59 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Palm Beach County, including Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach, Wellington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Palm Beach County by land and water
The Census records 418.9 square miles of water within Palm Beach County, or 17.6% of its total area. That share is close to Palm Beach County’s 17.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Palm Beach County has 43.6 times the land area of nearby Wellington village (45.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Broward County, Glades County, Hendry County, Martin County, Okeechobee County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

