Lake Worth Beach — renamed from Lake Worth in 2019 to clarify that the city is on the Intracoastal and not the inland lake of the same name — sits on the coast just south of West Palm Beach. The city covers about seven square miles between the Atlantic Ocean, the Intracoastal Waterway, and I-95, with a permanent population of around 42,000.
Daily life centers on the historic downtown along Lake and Lucerne avenues — a walkable district of mid-century storefronts, the Stonzek Theatre at the Lake Worth Playhouse, and a steady program of monthly Evening on the Avenues street fairs. The municipal Casino building and the Lake Worth Pier anchor the beach side, and the William O. Lockhart Municipal Pier remains one of the busiest fishing piers on the southeast Florida coast.
Lake Worth Beach is served by the School District of Palm Beach County. The city has retained more of its early-twentieth-century building stock than most of its neighbors and has developed a distinct identity as the artist-and-musician counterpart to the resort culture across the bridge.