Cleaning Services in Hobe Sound, FL

Hobe Sound is the southern edge of our map. It runs along the coast between Port Salerno to the north and Jonathan Dickinson State Park to the south, about 25 miles north of West Palm Beach, and below it is Palm Beach County -- somebody else's market. It has 13,163 residents, up 14.3 percent over the decade from 11,521, all of them classified as living in urban areas, with a median age of 56.9 and more than a third of the population aged 65 or older.

This is an affluent, quiet, exurban stretch of coast, and the housing reflects that: single-family homes on generous lots, screened pool enclosures, and a lot of properties that are not occupied every month of the year. ZIP 33455 also carries "Jupiter Island" as a Postal Service city name, which puts some of the most substantial residential addresses in Florida inside the same delivery area as an ordinary Hobe Sound three-bedroom. We clean both the same way, from the same written 42-point checklist.

There is more history here than the quiet suggests. During the 1920s land boom Hobe Sound was rebranded "Picture City" in a bid to bring the movie industry to the Treasure Coast; the 1928 hurricane ended that experiment. Today the practical local details are more mundane and more useful: Jonathan Dickinson State Park on the southern boundary, and Martin County Public Transit running fixed-route service through town with connections down into Palm Beach County.