The village won an award from the National Association of Home Builders as best planned community of 1956.

The North Palm Beach Country Club is home to a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course.

[7] MacArthur then began developing what is now North Palm Beach, which sat on former mangrove swamps and farm land.

Full-scale development and incorporation as a village occurred nearly simultaneously in 1956, with extensive dredging creating waterfront cul-de-sacs, and the development of a new east-west artery, Lighthouse Drive, connecting Old Dixie Highway and the newly aligned US 1.

Walter and his wife Jackie and four children (Ted, Larry, Jim, and Pam) were the 55th family to move into the Village, arriving in 1957.

Lake Park West Road was also extended from Old Dixie Highway to US 1 and was renamed Northlake Boulevard, becoming the village's main commercial corridor.

The original mid-century modernism club house was demolished in 2018 and a new clubhouse tagged as Anglo-Caribbean was built in its place in 2019.

As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 92.78% of all residents, while Spanish consisted of 3.91%, French was at 1.32%, German made up 0.92%, Italian 0.66%, and Greek was the mother tongue of 0.39% of the population.

The North Palm Beach Public Library provides programs throughout the year including; story-time, author lectures, genealogy group meetings, book club discussions and other special events.