Rank

1719of 3,144

Palm Beach, Florida

Score 6.19 / 10· population 1,533,801

Palm Beach County, Florida, has the nation's 10th-largest school district, with about 160,000 students and 22,801 employees. Even so, government at every level accounted for 62,066 of the 666,889 jobs counted in the county in 2024, about 9%, next to Florida's 11%. Life expectancy over 2020 to 2022 was 80.7 years here and 78.1 across Florida.

Sources
  • The School District of Palm Beach County has 22,801 total employees and 160,000 students in district-operated schools palmbeachschools.org
  • The School District of Palm Beach County is the 10th largest district in the country palmbeachschools.org
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), Palm Beach County had 666,889 covered jobs, of which 62,066 were federal (7,161), state (10,578) or local (44,327) government, about 9.3% data.bls.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), government held 1,107,316 of Florida's 9,836,491 covered jobs, about 11.3% data.bls.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data: life expectancy is 80.7 years in Palm Beach County and 78.1 years in Florida countyhealthrankings.org
  • The County Health Rankings 2025 release used 2020-2022 data for life expectancy countyhealthrankings.org

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)7.6
  2. 2A (state)8.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President4.9
  4. Sales tax4.1
  5. Property tax5.9

Environment

  1. Air quality5.8
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.0

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate7.1
  2. Life expectancy10.0
  3. Government employees8.4
  4. Single-parent households3.2

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