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Palm Shores town, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Palm Shores town is a Census town of 1,458 people across 0.60 square miles of land, in Brevard County. Median household income is $77,500, 87.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Palm Shores
What Palm Shores is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.6 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,428 plus or minus 545
- County holding the largest share of its areaBrevard County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palm Shores
How many people live in Palm Shores
- Population1,458 plus or minus 327
- Median age44.9
- Population under 18230 plus or minus 99
- Share under 1815.8 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over306 plus or minus 72
- Share 65 and over21.0 percent
- Households588
- Family households426 plus or minus 96
- Share of households that are families72.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Palm Shores
- Median household income$77,500 plus or minus $27,454
- Per capita income$40,771
- Civilian labor force837 plus or minus 234
- Employed823 plus or minus 233
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate1.7 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over1,087
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.1 percent plus or minus 25.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher31.4 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.8 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Palm Shores
- Housing units657
- Occupied units588
- Vacant units69 plus or minus 40
- Vacancy rate10.5 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Owner occupied516 plus or minus 103
- Renter occupied72 plus or minus 39
- Ownership rate87.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$351,600
- Single family units492 plus or minus 100
- Share single family74.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more47 plus or minus 33
- Share in buildings of two or more7.2 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Mobile homes103 plus or minus 38
- Median year structure built1997
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Palm Shores gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute711 plus or minus 228
- Commuting under 15 minutes97 plus or minus 38
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.6 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more183 plus or minus 84
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.7 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Drove alone79.1 percent
- Carpooled3.9 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Worked from home12.8 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palm Shores
SBA loans in Palm Shores (504)
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,776,000
- Average approval$888,000
- Median approval$1,201,000
- Largest approval$1,201,000
- Jobs supported16
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Palm Shores
Flood risk in Palm Shores
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120612
- Currently effective map date01/29/21
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Brevard County, not Palm Shores
Brevard County context, not Palm Shores figures
These are Brevard County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Palm Shores measurements.
- Establishments in Brevard County15,510
- Employment at those establishments, Brevard County205,503
- Covered employment, Brevard County242,124
- Average annual pay, Brevard County$68,051
- Average weekly wage, Brevard County$1,309
- Housing units permitted, Brevard County4,603
- Of those, single family, Brevard County3,889
- County product, 2024, Brevard County$43,482,320,000
- County product change over the prior year, Brevard County7.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Brevard County$87,320
Every figure in this section is published for Brevard County as a whole and is not a measurement of Palm Shores. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Palm Shores questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Palm Shores, Florida?
1,458, in 588 households. Palm Shores town covers 0.60 square miles of land, which is 2,428 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Palm Shores in?
Brevard County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Palm Shores?
$77,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $351,600. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Palm Shores in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Palm Shores appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120612, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Palm Shores figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Brevard County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Palm Shores.
Is zoning published for Palm Shores?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.