Florida residents furious as ritzy Palm Beach enclave is named one of America's richest suburbs

Call Palm Beach a beacon of Florida's gold coast.

Call nan sun-splashed destination a wintertime playground for America's rich.

Just don't dare telephone it a 'suburb.'

Residents of nan long, beach-lined portion disconnected Florida's southeast seashore were near fuming aft nan ritzy locale was lauded arsenic 1 of nan richest spots successful America connected a database that besides - gasps - branded it a suburb.

Financial website GoBanking.com ranked nan 50 wealthiest suburbs successful nan state based connected mean family incomes and spot prices.

Palm Beach - not to beryllium confused pinch nan mainland's West Palm Beach - came successful astatine No. 11 connected nan list. But nan thought that nan able enclave is simply a suburb has sparked outrage among locals.

'A suburb of what?' 1 unnamed existent property master griped to the Palm Beach Daily News, disputing nan neighborhood's relationship to a awesome metropolis alternatively than opinionated connected its own.

Indeed, nan patient deemed Palm Beach a suburb of nan Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area - a nickname besides utilized by nan US Census. 

But contempt nan overmuch bigger West Palm Beach being correct crossed nan bay from nan land and linked by 3 bridges, galore deliberation it's a misnomer.

On Reddit, a personification compared nan respective cities packed from Miami-Dade County to Palm Beach County being comparable to 'like 10 cities.'

'And it's almost 7 cardinal people. A 100 cities, 1 metropolitan area/continuous municipality agglomeration,' different added of nan sprawling 100-mile agelong of suburbs, galore of which acold distant from its hub. 

The favoritism of a suburb besides implies that it is much affordable than its metropolis counterpart.

'In nan 10 largest metro areas, suburban homes are an mean 24.2 percent little costly than homes successful nan municipality core,' Realtor.com's economical expert Hannah Jones said. 

'On a price-per-square-foot basis, suburban homes are an mean 23.2 percent little costly successful these ample metro areas.'

This is not nan lawsuit for Palm Beach. 

The study recovered nan 'typical' family income successful Palm Beach is $365,991, leaving it conscionable awkward of nan apical ten.

The mean location value, meanwhile, was pegged astatine $11.57 cardinal - based connected information from existent property tract Zillow. 

The municipality has 2,278 single-family homes for conscionable nether 10,000 residents - arsenic good arsenic 5,279 condos and 946 coops.

Housing costs location tin skyrocket into nan nine-figures - while astir stay good into nan eights for a specified 4 to 7 bedrooms, listings show.

These include oceanfront mansions complete pinch pools and backstage compounds, successful opposition to nan still-costly workplace condominiums commonly priced complete $1 million.

The land - separated from nan mainland by nan bid of bridges complete nan Intracoastal Waterway - has thus earned a estimation arsenic being a hive for nan ultra wealthy.

There is moreover a societal media page 'Class of Palm Beach' now dedicated to documenting nan town's champion dressed residents. 

Despite its comparatively mini population, nan municipality boasts immoderate star-studded residents. In summation to Mar-a-Lago's proprietor Donald Trump, Sylvester Stallone and his family besides telephone nan tightknit organization home.

Other locals see Howard Stern, Jon Bon Jovi , Tiger Woods, Serena Williams and Tommy Hilfiger to sanction a few.

Palm Beach was hit retired by suburbs of cities for illustration Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, on pinch 2 chopped ones centered astir New York City, which has immoderate of nan astir outer commuter towns successful nan country.

Those 2 unsurprisingly claimed nan apical spots, pinch Scarsdale and Rye unmasked arsenic numbers 1 and two, respectively.

In 3rd was West University Place successful Texas, located little than six miles southbound from Houston.

Los Altos, California, came successful fourth, acknowledgment to its proximity to San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara.

Fifth spot was claimed by Paradise Valley, a municipality of little than 13,000 conscionable extracurricular Phoenix, Arizona.

Texas made an quality again successful nan six-spot, acknowledgment to University Park adjacent Dallas, which has seen a unreserved of caller residents since nan pandemic.   

Hinsdale, Illinois, classed seventh arsenic a suburb of Chicago, while Great Falls successful Virginia scored eighth owed to it being an outpost of Washington, DC.

Orinda successful The Bay Area took ninth, while Wellesley successful Massachusetts rounded retired nan apical ten.

Then came Palm Beach, nan sole introduction to beryllium located successful a full-fledged ocean.

Compare that to West Palm, which is still connected nan Florida mainland, connected nan cusp of nan Intracoastal Waterway.

The metropolis boasts immoderate 121,000 residents, and has an mean family income of conscionable nether $100,000.

Palm Beach, meanwhile, is location to 61 billionaires - including Donald Trump and his Mar-a-Lago mansion.