Census-designated place · Palm Beach County, Florida

Limestone Creek, Florida

Limestone Creek is a census-designated place in Palm Beach County, Florida, part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area. It has 1,466 residents. Limestone Creek, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 63 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,728 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #167 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), depression (low) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), hot days (high) and rent as share of income (high).

63High

Quality-of-life score: #5,728 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #167 of 780 in FL
Population: 1,466 (2020-2024)
Land area: 0 mi²
Density: 3,748.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1240562

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety41#9,224/15,637
Economy58#6,506/15,631
Housing5#14,272/14,977
Health85#2,399/15,609
Healthcare61#6,032/15,650
Environment64#5,559/15,453
Education34#10,362/15,649
Infrastructure88#1,935/15,650
Community59#6,346/15,651
Leisure & amenities92#1,202/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Limestone Creek, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Palm Beach County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100Florida 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Depression · low14.3%
99/100Florida 18.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
New business applications · high30.8 /1k
98/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauPalm Beach County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high8.5 /10k
93/100Florida 5.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPalm Beach County value
Gyms and fitness centers · high2.1 /10k
92/100Florida 1.4 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPalm Beach County value
Life expectancy · high81.2 yrs
91/100Florida 78.5 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePalm Beach County value

Weaknesses

Rent-burdened households · high71.0%
3/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Hot days · high118 days
5/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPalm Beach County value
Rent as share of income · high37.4%
6/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Bachelor's degree or higher · low9.9%
7/100Florida 34.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
9/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPalm Beach County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high39.0%
10/100Florida 13.7%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,285 (2015-2019) → 1,466 (2020-2024)
+14%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$31,176 (2015-2019) → $90,910 (2020-2024)
+192%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeWorsening
14.0 min (2015-2019) → 38.3 min (2020-2024)
+175%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
100.0% (2015-2019) → 71.0% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
50.5% (2015-2019) → 31.6% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.7% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Limestone Creek, Florida improved on 3 of 6 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 3 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Household income+192%$31,176 → $90,910
Rent / income−14 points51.0% → 37.4%
Broadband+16 points83.7% → 100.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 6 measures

Change of every measure of Limestone Creek, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.9%2015-2019	9.9%2020-2024	−7 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Broadband subscriptions	83.7%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	83%
Child poverty rate	50.5%2015-2019	31.6%2020-2024	−19 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4772015-2019	0.3462020-2024	−0.132	Within the margin of error	98%
Median household income	$31,1762015-2019	$90,9102020-2024	+192%	Improved	100%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	37.4%2020-2024	−14 points	Improved	96%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Limestone Creek, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Limestone Creek, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Limestone Creek, Florida itself moved +33.1 points in standing on average over the same 5 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,466 residents (±771)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79†
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

377 households (±217)

Limestone Creek, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k21%†78
$25k–50k2.7%†10
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

377 households (±217)

Limestone Creek, Florida
Florida share

Own39%†146
Rent61%†231

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

888 workers (±682)

Limestone Creek, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone54%†478
Carpool27%†244
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Palm Beach County, the county holding most of Limestone Creek's residents.

Palm Beach County has 55,803 employer establishments, 358 for every 10,000 residents (1.44× the US rate of 248; 1.27× Florida's), with 592,227 paid employees at an average annual pay of $66,342. The Census Bureau also counts 261,006 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 55,803; 261,006 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 358; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 592,227
Average annual pay: $66,342; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Palm Beach County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	5,793	37.1	1.78×More than typical	50,402	$71,176	20,694
Lessors of real estate	3,768	24.1	1.96×More than typical	13,623	$75,585	30,169
Specialty trade contractors	3,651	23.4	1.51×More than typical	29,822	$59,392	14,741
Management, scientific and technical consulting	2,962	19	2.83×More than typical	9,370	$100,653	10,841
Restaurants and other eating places	2,865	18.4	1.00×About typical	60,433	$26,007	1,219
Services to buildings and dwellings	2,231	14.3	2.12×More than typical	15,919	$38,612	19,817
Offices of physicians	2,170	13.9	2.15×More than typical	20,320	$93,711	2,467
Legal services	2,090	13.4	2.49×More than typical	10,885	$116,644	2,823
Real estate agents and brokers	1,975	12.7	2.60×More than typical	3,165	$103,352	9,363
Offices of other health practitioners	1,751	11.2	1.85×More than typical	6,475	$47,460	6,426
Construction of buildings	1,606	10.3	1.36×More than typical	8,629	$90,446	7,212
Full-service restaurants	1,370	8.8	1.14×About typical	37,170	$30,048	491

Rank places for an industry Open Palm Beach County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,560,348 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $502.8K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Limestone Creek, Florida: $343 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $502.8K; −46% vs FY2025
Per resident: $343; US $1,994
Sole-source: 25%; US 30%
Single offer: 42%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$125.3K25%
Department of the Air Force$101K20%
Department of Veterans Affairs$86.3K17%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$60.4K12%
Defense Logistics Agency$57.2K11%
Department of the Army$39.5K7.8%
National Institutes of Health$23.6K4.7%
Department of the Navy$4,5880.9%

Top recipients

G4S SECURE SOLUTIONS (USA) INC.$185.8K37%
FLORIDA TURBINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$95.6K19%
CAYLOR EQUIPMENT SERVICES LLC$59.2K12%
MAXA BEAM SEARCHLIGHTS, INC.$54.9K11%
DEFENSE SUPPLY SYSTEMS LLC$39.5K7.8%

Spending by fiscal year

1.4MFY2017
1.1MFY2018
1.4MFY2019
837.7KFY2020
240.6KFY2021
546.7KFY2022
169.3KFY2023
560.4K

Top industries (NAICS)

Investigation and security services · 5616$185.8K37%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$66.9K13%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$56.9K11%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$43.8K8.7%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$39.5K7.9%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Limestone Creek, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Limestone Creek, Florida's figures are part of those of Palm Beach County, FL ($3B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Limestone Creek is mostly in Palm Beach County.

See federal money in Palm Beach County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Limestone Creek, Florida is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Palm Beach County76100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL66

Other cities and towns in Palm Beach County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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