City safety & data profile

WellingtonFL

Wellington, FL is a 63K-resident city in Palm Beach County with a median household income of $115,632.

Palm Beach County, Florida. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Wellington, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Wellington has a population larger than 85% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $599,400, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.

Data updated 2026-09-05

63K
Population (place)
Top 15%
By size
$115,632
Median income (place)
$599,400
Median home (place)
7.8%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Wellington

Wellington posts a median household income higher than 80% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Wellington area.

Top 20%
by median income, US cities
1
hospital in & near Wellington

Where Wellington income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$115,632 Top 20% higher than 80% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Wellington $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-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

Population among 310 FL places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Jacksonville is the largest FL city on this list; Pinecrest leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in FL

Median household income among the same 310-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Pinecrest posts the highest place-level median income in FL; Jacksonville is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Wellington, FL beyond the headline numbers

Wellington sits inside Palm Beach County, Florida, at roughly 26.66°N, -80.24°W. Population 62,560, $115,632 median household income. Median home value $599,400, median rent $2,562. Poverty rate 7.8%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

1 hospital in/around Wellington, 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.

At 7.8%, poverty in Wellington, FL runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.

A median home in Wellington runs about 5.2 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.

20.2% of Wellington 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.

Among the CDC measures on this page, obesity departs furthest from its peer median: 24.9% in Wellington, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

Public transit carries 0.1% of Wellington workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.

At 42.3 years, Wellington's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Wellington 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.

Population (place)
62,560
Wellington · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$115,632
+29% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$599,400
+45% vs avg
Median Age (place)
42.3
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Palm Beach County): Wellington'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.

20132024
Population
1.5M+15%
Median Income
$83,581+59%
Median Home Value
$447,300+124%
Poverty Rate
11.3%-22%
Unemployment
5.5%-53%

Economics

Economics indicators for Wellington, FL
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$2,562/mo
Poverty Rate
7.8% -37% vs avg
Unemployment 4.7%
Bachelor's Degree+ 49.7%
Work From Home 20.2%
Public Transit 0.1%

Population

White 55.2%
African American 12.3%
Asian 4.4%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
34.4%
High Blood Pressure
30.3%
Obesity
24.9%
Physical Inactivity
20.6%
Binge Drinking
14.9%
Frequent Mental Distress
14.3%
Frequent Physical Distress
11.6%
Lack of Health Insurance
11.4%
Diabetes
10.8%
Current Smoking
9.7%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 67.1%
Annual Checkup 78.5%

Other Measures

Current Asthma
9.1%
Coronary Heart Disease
5.6%
Stroke
2.9%

Hospitals 1 total

Rating Distribution
★★★★★
0
★★★★
0
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0
★★
1
0
Average Rating
2/5
Total Hospitals
1
With ER
1
WELLINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
WELLINGTON · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★☆☆☆

What alerts and safety updates affect Wellington?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Wellington right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet FL-WELLINGTON · Wellington

Wellington: 1 tagged alert; lead category NSW RFS bushfire alert.

  • VOL-TRACE 1 on record
  • MIX-LED 100% au-bushfires
  • DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston

Tagged alert mix: Wellington

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Wellington.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Wellington; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Florida state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

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Frequently Asked Questions 6

What is the population of Wellington, FL?
Wellington, FL has a population of 62,560 people, located in Palm Beach County, Florida.
What is the median household income in Wellington?
The median household income in Wellington, FL is $115,632 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 7.8%.
What is the median home value in Wellington?
The median home value in Wellington, FL is $599,400. Median rent is $2,562/month.
What are the top health concerns in Wellington?
The top health indicators in Wellington include Short Sleep Duration (34.4%), High Blood Pressure (30.3%), Obesity (24.9%). Data from CDC PLACES.
How many hospitals are in Wellington?
Wellington has 1 hospital with an average rating of 2/5 stars. 1 have emergency departments.
What is the median age in Wellington?
The median age in Wellington, FL is 42.3 years. 49.7% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Wellington, both outside Florida so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside FL (7.8% here).

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside FL ($115,632 here).

Compare Wellington 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.

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Nearby Cities 8

Using Wellington's profile

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 Wellington 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 Wellington against Florida peers on any ranking lens. Explore Florida

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

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.