Boynton Beach is a larger medium-sized coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 81,267 people and 41 associated neighborhoods, Boynton Beach is the 38th largest community in Florida.Boynton Beach is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Boynton Beach is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Boynton Beach who work in management occupations (11.64%), sales jobs (11.35%), and office and administrative support (10.85%). A relatively large number of people in Boynton Beach telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.86% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Boynton Beach is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. In terms of college education, Boynton Beach is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.94% of adults in Boynton Beach have a college degree. The per capita income in Boynton Beach in 2022 was $39,198, which is middle income relative to Florida, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,792 for a family of four. However, Boynton Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Boynton Beach is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Boynton Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boynton Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Boynton Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.50% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Boynton Beach include Haitian, Irish, Italian, German, and English. Boynton Beach also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 29.45%. The most common language spoken in Boynton Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
