Understand Golf before you commit to an address
The Village of Golf is exactly what it sounds like: a municipality of two hundred and seventy-three people incorporated in 1957 around a country club west of Boynton Beach, with its own village hall, its own public safety department and a typical home value of about $3.09 million. It charges 18.8032 mills in total, of which 6.5452 is the village's own. Figures are the same two indexes measured the same way in all 24 municipalities on this coast, on Florida's rules including the homestead exemption. Zillow publishes no rent index for a municipality this size, so the rent shown is the median of the eighteen here that have one, and is marked as such wherever it appears.
The cost of living in Golf, and what a home costs
Two calculators on Florida's own rules: monthly compounding and the month private mortgage insurance stops, and the closing costs this state actually charges.
Rent or buy in Golf
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. On this coast insurance moves the answer more than the mortgage rate, and you can edit it.
Mortgage calculator
Monthly compounding, the 30-year fixed loan, the private mortgage insurance a low down payment triggers, and Florida's documentary stamp and intangible taxes on the loan itself.
Then work out whether Golf is the right part of this coast
No neighborhood guides for Golf yet. What is here instead is the whole coast on one comparable footing.
All 24 municipalities on the Palm Beach coast
Every municipality from Boca Raton to Tequesta side by side on home value, millage, the rate a homesteaded buyer pays, and which of them pay the county for fire.
Compare the coastThe 24 municipalities of the Orlando metro
Identical rules and exemptions, the same two Zillow indexes, and insurance at less than half what it costs here. It is the clearest measure of what proximity to the Atlantic costs.
Compare coast and inlandWhat buying in Golf actually involves
The arithmetic here is the small-enclave pattern at its most extreme. A village of a few hundred houses with no commercial assessment whatsoever levies 6.5452 mills of its own, the sixth-highest municipal levy here, and lands at 18.8032 in total: a homesteaded buyer's effective rate of 1.86%, the fourth-highest in this layer. On a $3.09 million house that is about $57,400 a year in property tax alone. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue's own areas-served page lists the village as a municipality the county neither serves nor dispatches for, and the appraiser's chart shows none of the Fire/Rescue MSTU's 3.4581 mills on its codes, so the cost of the service the village does buy is already inside the 6.5452.
It is also not a housing market in any ordinary sense. There are a few hundred homes, sales are rare, and membership of the club is effectively part of living here. The index on this page is built on very thin data and should be read as an order of magnitude rather than a price. What the page is genuinely useful for is the tax arithmetic, which is real and which nobody else assembles.
The village exists to run a country club and the residential streets around it, so the club is not an amenity attached to the housing, it is the organising fact of the place. Buying here means joining an arrangement, and the terms of that arrangement are as material as the price.
With a few hundred residents and no commercial property, the village depends entirely on a small residential base for everything it does. That makes the rate volatile in a way a large city's is not: a single capital project is a visible share of the levy, and there is nobody else to spread it across.
Moving to Golf: check these before you commit
- Club membership obligations, which in a village organized around one are not separable from the house.
- The thinness of the market data: a handful of sales a year cannot support a precise index.
- The full millage, which on a house at this value is worth pricing over a long hold.
- The village's recent budget and capital plans, since a small base makes single projects visible in the rate.
- What club membership costs annually, and whether it is optional in practice as well as in writing.
Golf levies 6.5452 of the 18.8032 mills charged here. The remaining 12.2580 is Palm Beach County, the school district and the countywide special districts, none of which the municipality sets, and none of it is the county Fire/Rescue MSTU, because Golf is outside it.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Golf figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Golf figures come from
- Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, mid-tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value for the 35th to 65th percentile of each municipality's market, computed on one method across all twenty-four, The same series and month the Charlotte and Orlando metro pages use, so all three American layers can be read against each other, Year-over-year change to June 2026
- Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), all homes, smoothed: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: Asking rents across the whole rental stock for the eighteen municipalities Zillow indexes, No index at all for the six smallest, several of which have fewer than five hundred residents
- Taxing Authority Code Description, Palm Beach County 2025 · Palm Beach County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: One row per tax authority code, 123 codes, with a named column for every levy and a published TOTAL, which settles the district set for all twenty-four municipalities by inspection, The Fire/Rescue MSTU at 3.4581 on five of the twenty-four and on no others: South Palm Beach, Lake Worth Beach, Wellington, Royal Palm Beach and Lake Park, The county Library district at 0.5491 on eleven: Ocean Ridge, Hypoluxo, South Palm Beach, Greenacres, Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Palm Beach Shores, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Jupiter Inlet Colony and Tequesta, The Jupiter Inlet District at 0.0722 on three: Jupiter, Tequesta and Jupiter Inlet Colony, Children's Services 0.4908, the Health Care District 0.6561 and F.I.N.D. 0.0270 on all 123 codes, which is why they are countywide here, The published TOTAL every row in this layer reproduces, from Palm Beach's 14.8690 to Lake Worth Beach's 21.6106
- 2025 millage rates by taxing authority, Palm Beach County · Palm Beach County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: The countywide levies: county 4.5000 and county debt 0.0330, school state 3.0730 and local 3.2480, Children's Services 0.4908, Health Care District 0.6561, three SFWMD levies totalling 0.2301 and FIND 0.0270, The conditional Fire/Rescue MSTU at 3.4581 and the separate Jupiter Fire/Rescue MSTU at 1.7251, Every municipality's own operating and debt millage, and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District at 1.0800, A published total for Boca Raton of 17.0029 mills, which this layer's stack reproduces exactly
- 2026 Proposed, Rollback and 2025 Final Millage Rates, Palm Beach County · Palm Beach County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: The 2025 Final column corroborating the three district rates read off the code chart: Fire/Rescue 3.4581, Library 0.5491 and Jupiter Inlet District 0.0722, F.I.N.D. at 0.0270 for 2025, against the 0.0288 this layer carried for a year, which is the 2024 rate
- Table 1: Comparison of Taxes Levied, county and municipal governments, fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26: Palm Beach · Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · retrieved Supports: The adopted 2025-26 millage rate and taxes levied for Palm Beach County and every municipality in it, Independent confirmation of the municipal rates taken from the property appraiser's table