The new Lake Worth tax collectors office isn't in Lake Worth: It's in unincorporated Palm Beach County

When it comes to understanding the distinction between the City of Lake Worth and unincorporated, or suburban Lake Worth, NBC5/WPTV is hands-down the best at being accurate. But even they get it wrong from time to time like this news segment about the new tax collectors office "in Lake Worth" that isn't in Lake Worth. And just a few days later another news segment about a charity event in John Prince Park "in Lake Worth". The park isn't in Lake Worth. Again, this is unincorporated Palm Beach County or suburban Lake Worth.

If your interested, you can read my review of TV news in central Palm Beach County using this link.

This short blog post from December 2014, viewed thousands and thousands of times, is a very good explanation for the media on what is Lake Worth and what is not the City of Lake Worth. And if you happen to be really motivated to learn the facts you can visit the Lake Worth Wikipedia page:

     According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.46 square miles (17 km2). 5.64 square miles (15 km2) of it is land and 0.86 square miles (2 km2) of it (12.69%) is water. Several geographical features in Palm Beach County somewhat confusingly share the name "Lake Worth."

[and. . .]

     Although the incorporated city of Lake Worth is small geographically, as is common in Palm Beach County, a large unincorporated urbanized area with a Lake Worth postal address lies to the west of the city, and includes the census-designated place of Lake Worth Corridor. It also includes western neighborhoods and communities such as The Fountains, Lago Lucerne, Lake Osborne Estates, Melaleuca Lane Corridor, and Palm Beach National.

I hope this helps.

The official zoning map of the City of Lake Worth.