Village of Wellington

The Village of Wellington, in Palm Beach County, Florida, has been named as one of the top communities in which to live in The United States. Wellington  was incorporated as a municipality in 1996. It now has a year-round population of about 50,000 which grows to about 60,000 or more during the winter season. Median family income is about $80,000. Wellington is a very unique planned unit development. Home prices have risen about 100 percent in the past year and a new 3-bedroom, 2-bath home now sells from $400,000 and up. If you are waiting to buy a nice home here at a reasonable price, you had better start looking now!

The village is home location for Palm Beach Polo and Country Club and The International Polo Club, two of the most exclusive private clubs in Florida. Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club, home to the Winter Equestrian Festival and many of the world's best riders and horses from February through April, is also in Wellington. The community's huge facilities, polo fields, barns, training facilities, polo stadiums and private horse farms, have made it the polo and equestrian capital of the world. Thousands of polo players, including the top players in the world, come to Wellington each winter to compete in nationally sponsored matches which are well attended by Wellingtonians, other South Florida residents and thousands of visitors from all over the world.

During the same winter months, the equestrian club is host to the Winter Equestrian Festival, where hunter-jumper and dressage riders - including many Olympians - and up to 6,000 of the most expensive horses in the world compete for millions of dollars in prize money.

During the equestrian events, local residents enjoy meeting some of the most famous people in the worlds of entertainment, politics and international sports, and are often graced with the presence of royal personalities such as Prince Charles of England and the Sultan of Brunei, and actors Tommy Lee Jones and Stefanie Powers, who play polo when they can. Celebrities such as rock legend Bruce Springsteen and actress Glenn Close can be seen at horse shows with their competing daughters. 

Wellington is not only an exciting place to live but is also a lovely, relatively new community of homes, townhomes, villas, farms and estates priced from under $220,000 (townhomes) and $300,000 (single-family homes) to in the millions.

Wellington schools are as new as the community and it students have graduated earning acceptance at the most famous colleges and universities in the country. All Wellington schools are rated as "A" schools at this writing.

There are a number of shopping centers in the village including the Mall at Wellington Green, Wellington Marketplace, Wellington Town Square and Wellington Courtyard. The new Wellington Green super-mall opened two years ago at the intersection of Forest Hill Blvd. and State Road 7. Other new centers sprouted nearby on SR 7. Wellington Green is one of the largest fully enclosed malls in Florida. With at least five major department store anchors, hundreds of shops, restaurants, office buildings and a hotel. Wellington Green has already begun to increase property values in the village as well as its neighbors, Royal Palm Beach, Loxahatchee and The Acreage.

Most Wellington homes are on quarter-acre lots but many neighborhoods have homes on half-acre or larger lots including 5-acre and larger estates. New single-family homes in the village start at around $400,000. Fast disappearing are beautiful zero-lot-line homes and townhomes priced at around $300,000.

The village contracts for police service from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and fire protection is provided by Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue.

Wellington has strict deed enforcement regulations and a number of homeowner associations with different regulations and bylaws that are strictly enforced.

It's a very young community for Palm Beach County, populated largely by young families with children. Horse trails and bike-jogging trails are all over the community. Wellington recently dedicated a new $14 million park and recreation facility with baseball, football, flag football, roller hockey, soccer and other fields for the children and adults, including a new gym.

The village also has a high-end (former country club) Community Center for residents, where families enjoy an Olympic-size swimming and diving pool, tennis and other recreational facilities. Summer family memberships are currently priced at around $300.

Several country clubs in the village are available to residents and there are a number of excellent golf courses, some open to the general public. If you are looking for a gracious, prestigious community to call home, Wellington is the place for you!