North Palm Beach is a village of around 13,000 in northern Palm Beach County, incorporated in 1956 around a planned waterfront community developed by Sir Harry Oakes' heirs and later by John D. MacArthur. The village covers about six square miles bounded by the Intracoastal Waterway, Lake Worth Lagoon, and U.S. Highway 1.
Daily life centers on the North Palm Beach Country Club — a Jack Nicklaus-redesigned municipal course owned by the village itself — and the small commercial strip along US-1. The village's neighborhoods are heavily canal-laced, with most homes either fronting water directly or sitting a single lot back from it. Lost Tree Village and Old Port Cove anchor the higher-end waterfront sections.
The village is served by the School District of Palm Beach County. North Palm Beach has retained its planned-community character more completely than most of its neighbors, and its residents skew toward long-term homeowners who chose it specifically for the quiet waterfront pace.