Greenacres is a city in central Palm Beach County, founded in 1925 as Greenacres City and reincorporated under its current name in 1990. The city covers about six square miles and sits inland of Lake Worth Beach, bordered roughly by Forest Hill Boulevard to the north, Lake Worth Road to the south, and Jog Road through its center.
Daily life pulls toward the Greenacres city core along Swain Boulevard and the Freedom Park civic complex, with the larger Mall at Wellington Green a short drive west and the Lake Worth Beach downtown a short drive east. The city's neighborhoods include long-standing single-family communities and a substantial stock of mid-century duplexes and small apartment buildings that have kept Greenacres one of the most attainable addresses in central Palm Beach County.
Greenacres is served by the School District of Palm Beach County. The city has grown gradually rather than dramatically, retaining a quieter residential character even as its surrounding cities have expanded.