City safety & data profile
Boca RatonFL
Boca Raton, FL is a 93K-resident city in Palm Beach County with a median household income of $106,273.
Palm Beach County, Florida. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Boca Raton, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Boca Raton has a population larger than 91% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $722,700, and 2 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 93K
- Population (place)
- Top 9%
- By size
- $106,273
- Median income (place)
- $722,700
- Median home (place)
- 10%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Boca Raton
Boca Raton posts a median household income higher than 74% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 2 hospitals serve the Boca Raton area.
- Top 26%
- by median income, US cities
- 2
- hospitals in & near Boca Raton
Composite score · Boca Raton, FL
72/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Boca Raton in context: the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Boca Raton income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$106,273 Top 26% higher than 74% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in FL
Ranked by headcount across the 310 FL places Areazine tracks with both population and income data. Tooltip carries the income rank.
- Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
1,009,833 residents
- Miami
Miami, FL
487,014 residents
- Tampa
Tampa, FL
414,547 residents
- Orlando 334,854
Orlando, FL
334,854 residents
- St. Petersburg 257,083
St. Petersburg, FL
257,083 residents
- Hialeah 237,069
Hialeah, FL
237,069 residents
- Tallahassee 201,731
Tallahassee, FL
201,731 residents
- Fort Lauderdale 183,146
Fort Lauderdale, FL
183,146 residents
- Cape Coral 175,229
Cape Coral, FL
175,229 residents
- Pembroke Pines 166,611
Pembroke Pines, FL
166,611 residents
What this shows Jacksonville tops this pool by population; the income lead belongs to Pinecrest instead.
Income ranking: FL
Median household income among the same 310-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Pinecrest
Pinecrest, FL
$206,417 median
- Parkland
Parkland, FL
$198,669 median
- Lake Butler
Lake Butler, FL
$182,500 median
- Key Biscayne
Key Biscayne, FL
$181,505 median
- Keystone
Keystone, FL
$161,056 median
- Naples
Naples, FL
$153,182 median
- Miami Shores
Miami Shores, FL
$144,050 median
- Palmetto Bay
Palmetto Bay, FL
$142,447 median
- Fruit Cove
Fruit Cove, FL
$141,863 median
- Weston
Weston, FL
$139,825 median
What this shows Pinecrest leads this pool on median income; Jacksonville is the population leader instead.
The quick read
Reading Boca Raton, FL beyond the headline numbers
Boca Raton sits inside Palm Beach County, Florida, at roughly 26.36°N, -80.08°W. Population 93,235, $106,273 median household income. Median home value $722,700, median rent $2,508. Poverty rate 10%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
2 hospitals in/around Boca Raton, 2.5/5 avg rating, 2 with an ER. Climate: 77.2°F annual average, 55.9" precipitation.
$2,508/month is the median rent in Boca Raton, FL, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
The median home in Boca Raton costs around 6.8 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
At 46 years, Boca Raton's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
A bachelor's degree or higher is common in Boca Raton: 61.8% of adults, the highest quarter of reporting cities -- a labor pool skewed toward credentialed work.
Among the CDC measures on this page, obesity departs furthest from its peer median: 23.2% in Boca Raton, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
23.5% of Boca Raton workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Unemployment in Boca Raton sits at 5.5%, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
At 10%, poverty in Boca Raton, FL runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Boca Raton from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Palm Beach County): Boca Raton's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economic Snapshot
The clearest outlier in Boca Raton's numbers is median rent: $2,508/mo, which is 63% above what's typical across the tracked-city set. A second figure worth noting: poverty rate at 10.0%, 19% below the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 10% -19% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 5.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 61.8% |
| Work From Home | 23.5% |
| Public Transit | 0.6% |
Population
Health Snapshot 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospital Access 2 total
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 202414.2% above national average
Metro area: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
NFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelPalm Beach County has recorded 1,175 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $17.0M in payouts since 2016.
Hurricane Irma alone generated 423 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Boca Raton?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Boca Raton right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet FL-BOCA-RATON · Boca Raton
Boca Raton: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Boca Raton; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Florida state hubs · Methodology
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Boca Raton, both outside Florida so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside FL (10% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside FL ($106,273 here).
Compare Boca Raton with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Cities Close By 8
Turning this into a research checklist
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Boca Raton area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Boca Raton against Florida peers on any ranking lens. Explore Florida
U.S. Census ACS supplies the place-level population and economics figures (income, home value, poverty, education); CDC PLACES supplies health; hospital counts reflect nearby facilities. County-level trends carry their own label.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Palm Beach County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.