Editing Royal Palm Beach, Florida (section)

===2000 census===
In 2000, there were 7,604 households, of which 63.9% were child-free married couples, 42% had children under the age of 18 living in them, 11% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.4% were non-related individuals. 17.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.20.

In 2000, the village, the population was spread out, with 28.6% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.3 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the village was $54,766, and the median income for a family was $61,063. Males had a median income of $39,356 versus $29,991 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $21,875.  About 3.7% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 5.2% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.

As of 2000, speakers of [[English language|English]] as a [[first language]] accounted for 85.80% of all residents, while [[Spanish language|Spanish]] was at 11.49%, and [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] as a [[mother tongue]] made up 0.48% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mla.org/map_data_results&state_id=12&county_id=&mode=place&zip=&place_id=62100&cty_id=&ll=&a=&ea=&order=r |title=MLA Data Center Results for Royal Palm Beach, Florida |publisher=[[Modern Language Association]] |access-date=November 19, 2007}}</ref>

As of 2000, Royal Palm Beach had the eighty-ninth highest percentage of [[Cuban people|Cuban]] residents in the US, with 2.95%,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html |title=Ancestry Map of Cuban Communities |publisher=Epodunk.com |access-date=November 19, 2007 |archive-date=November 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122040230/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> while its [[Jamaican people|Jamaican]] community had the thirty-second highest percentage in the US, with 4.10% of the population (tied with [[Tamarac, Florida|Tamarac]] and [[Goulds, Florida|Goulds]].)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Jamaican.html |title=Ancestry Map of Jamaican Communities |publisher=Epodunk.com |access-date=November 19, 2007 |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011153154/http://epodunk.com/ancestry/Jamaican.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>