![]() Palm Beach County has been called the "Winter Vegetable Capital" of the nation. In undeveloped (central and western) Palm Beach County there is significant tropical agricultural production, especially nurseries, truck crops (vegetables), and sugar cane. It leads the state in agricultural productivity agriculture is Palm Beach County's second-largest industry, after real estate development. In 2004, Palm Beach County was Florida's wealthiest county, with a per capita personal income of $44,518. More recently, the county acquired national attention during the 2000 presidential election, when a controversial recount occurred. In 1928, the Okeechobee hurricane struck Palm Beach County and caused thousands of deaths. The area has been increasing in population since the late 19th century, with the incorporation of West Palm Beach in 1894 and after Henry Flagler extended the Florida East Coast Railway and built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, The Breakers, and Whitehall. Palm Beach County is one of the three counties that make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6.14 million people in 2020. The county's modern-day boundaries were established in 1963. ![]() Named after one of its oldest settlements, Palm Beach, the county was established in 1909, after being split from Dade County. Its county seat and largest city is West Palm Beach, which had a population of 117,415 as of 2020. It is Florida's third-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and Broward County and the 26th-most populous in the United States, with 1,492,191 residents as of the 2020 census. ![]() Palm Beach County is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. ![]()
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