Palm Beach County, Florida: New American county. In 2024, voted D+1%. Democratic peak: D+59 in 1912.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 1,533,8062024 5-year
- Median household income
- $83,5812024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Middlesex County, NJ · similarity 0.95
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Palm Beach CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Palm Beach County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | +58.9% |
| 1916 | +29.5% |
| 1920 | −10.4% |
| 1924 | −4.9% |
| 1928 | −32.1% |
| 1932 | +31.8% |
| 1936 | +36.5% |
| 1940 | +23.4% |
| 1944 | +18.5% |
| 1948 | −6.6% |
| 1952 | −35.1% |
| 1956 | −42.8% |
| 1960 | −20.6% |
| 1964 | −6.2% |
| 1968 | −25.1% |
| 1972 | −45.2% |
| 1976 | −0.8% |
| 1980 | −20.4% |
| 1984 | −23.3% |
| 1988 | −11.4% |
| 1992 | +11.7% |
| 1996 | +24.4% |
| 2000 | +27.0% |
| 2004 | +21.3% |
| 2008 | +22.9% |
| 2012 | +17.0% |
| 2016 | +15.4% |
| 2020 | +12.8% |
| 2024 | +0.7% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 372,230 | 366,686 | 745,270 | ||
| D | 433,572 | 334,711 | 773,158 | ||
| D | 374,673 | 272,402 | 662,332 | ||
| D | 349,651 | 247,398 | 600,721 | ||
| D | 361,271 | 226,037 | 590,500 | ||
| D | 328,687 | 212,688 | 544,622 | ||
| D | 269,754 | 152,964 | 433,222 | ||
| D | 230,687 | 133,811 | 397,354 | ||
| D | 187,869 | 140,350 | 405,251 | ||
| R | 144,199 | 181,495 | 327,217 | ||
| R | 116,091 | 186,811 | 302,931 | ||
| R | 91,991 | 143,639 | 252,930 | ||
| R | 96,705 | 98,236 | 198,657 | ||
| R | 40,825 | 108,670 | 150,203 | ||
| R | 32,837 | 62,191 | 116,922 | ||
| R | 43,836 | 49,614 | 93,450 | ||
| R | 29,871 | 45,337 | 75,208 | ||
| R | 14,321 | 35,746 | 50,067 | ||
| R | 13,723 | 28,595 | 42,318 | ||
| R | 9,408 | 10,996 | 24,115 | ||
| D | 11,093 | 7,628 | 18,721 | ||
| D | 11,884 | 7,371 | 19,255 | ||
| D | 9,635 | 4,478 | 14,113 | ||
| D | 7,734 | 4,006 | 11,740 | ||
| R | 2,652 | 5,298 | 8,248 | ||
| R | 1,543 | 1,726 | 3,741 | ||
| R | 1,488 | 1,892 | 3,886 | ||
| D | 725 | 311 | 1,403 | ||
| D | 458 | 31 | 725 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
Italian
8.0%
German
7.8%
Irish
7.8%
English
6.2%
American
6.1%
Polish
3.2%
French
1.6%
African American
14.8%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 45.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$83,581
Palm Beach County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.
Palm Beach County$83,581
Florida$74,568
United States$80,734
Palm Beach County ranks in the top 25% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
11.3%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1815.4%
Working age (18–64)10.2%
Seniors (65+)11.4%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
65.8%
speak English only
Spanish20.1%
Other Indo-European11.3%
Asian & Pacific Islander1.5%
Other languages1.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 60.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Palm Beach County's rapid population growth, driven largely by domestic in-migration from the Northeast, has compressed a margin that ran double digits Republican as recently as 2012, making it one of Florida's closest large-county contests.
Palm Beach County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of fifty-nine points in 1912. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved twelve points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $83,581, and a population of 1,533,806. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Middlesex County and Broward County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Palm Beach County, Florida vote in 2024?
In 2024, Palm Beach County, Florida voted Democratic by 0.7 points (D+1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 745,270 votes cast, 372,230 went Democratic and 366,686 went Republican.
What is Palm Beach County, Florida's political typology?
Akashic places Palm Beach County, Florida in the "New American" typology — Communities where a large share of households speak a language other than English — multilingual, Democratic-leaning overall, yet the hardest-swinging bloc toward the Republican Party in 2024. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 15 times, Republican 14 times, and other 0 times.
When did Palm Beach County, Florida last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Palm Beach County, Florida voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Palm Beach County, Florida?
Palm Beach County, Florida has a population of 1,533,806 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Palm Beach County, Florida?
Median household income in Palm Beach County, Florida is $83,581 — above the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Palm Beach County, Florida?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Palm Beach County, Florida from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 14 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.