Highland Beach is a town in Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County is the largest county in the state of Florida in total area, and third in population. As of 2010, the county's estimated population was 1,320,134, making it the twenty-eighth most populous in the United States...

, Florida

Florida

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, in the United States

United States

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. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 3,988.
Highland Beach is located at 26°23′59"N 80°4′6"W (26.399710, -80.068416).

According to the United States Census Bureau

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, the town has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²). 0.5 square miles (1.3 km²) of it is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km²) of it (56.64%) is water.
As of the census

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of 2000, there were 3,775 people, 2,192 households, and 1,227 families residing in the town.