Ocean Ridge is a town in
Palm Beach County
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,
Florida
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, United States. The population was 1,786 at the 2010 census. As of 2018, the population recorded by the
U.S. Census Bureau
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is 1,956.
It is part of the
Miami Metropolitan Area
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.
Geography
Ocean Ridge is located at .
Ocean Ridge is a small coastal community along US Hwy A1A. It lies 1.6 miles north of
Briny Breezes, 1.3 miles east of
Boynton Beach and 4.3 miles south of
South Palm Beach. To the east lies the
Atlantic Ocean
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.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (57.00%) is water.
History
Ocean Ridge was founded in 1931 as the Town of Boynton Beach, which was originally part of the Town of Boynton. Major Nathan S. Boynton toured the area in 1894, and established the Boynton Beach Hotel in 1897. The town of Boynton was incorporated in 1920. Due to disputes over beach area property taxes and the Town of Boynton's rising debt load, twelve homes created the Town of Boynton Beach in 1931. But in 1937, the Town Commission called a special emergency meeting over changing Boynton Beach's name, because mail was being missent to Daytona Beach due to the similarities in name. Marion White Bird, the daughter of then Mayor Michael White, suggested the name "Ocean Ridge" and won a contest for choosing a new name. The name was officially changed to "Ocean Ridge" in 1939. Two years later, the Town of Boynton itself changed its name, to
"Boynton Beach".
Demographics
2020 census
As of the
2020 United States census
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, there were 1,830 people, 762 households, and 444 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 1,636 people, 875 households, and 494 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 1,449 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 98.35%
White
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(95.7% were Non-Hispanic White,) 0.12%
African American
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, 0.55%
Asian
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, 0.12%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.43% from
other races
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, and 0.43% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or
Latino
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of any race were 2.93% of the population.
There were 875 households, out of which 11.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.1% were
married couples
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living together, 3.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.5% were non-families. 37.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.87 and the average family size was 2.41.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 10.3% under the age of 18, 1.8% from 18 to 24, 18.5% from 25 to 44, 33.6% from 45 to 64, and 35.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 57 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.9 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $70,625, and the median income for a family was $99,184. Males had a median income of $91,198 versus $31,607 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the town was $76,088. About 2.6% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including none of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, speakers of
English
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as a
first language
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accounted for 91.09% of all residents, while
French consisted of 3.45%,
Spanish
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was at 3.10%,
German
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at 1.38%, Persian Language was at 1.5%, and
Italian
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made up 0.96% of the population.
As of 2000, Ocean Ridge had the nineteenth highest percentage of
Canadian
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residents in the US, with 1.70% of the population (tied with twenty-nine other US areas, including
Palm Beach Shores.)
References
External links
Town of Ocean Ridge
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Towns in Palm Beach County, Florida
Populated coastal places in Florida on the Atlantic Ocean
Towns in Florida