The Acreage is an unincorporated community located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, with a 2010 US Census Bureau population intensify of 38,704. It is located in the areas north of Royal Palm Beach and Loxahatchee Groves, and is nearly 18 miles (29 km) northwest of West Palm Beach. Most of the population lives in single-family homes upon 1.14 acres (4,600 m²) and larger lots. It straddles the western fringes of the objector eastern allowance of Palm Beach County and the agricultural-rural western portions. Its large, spacious home site lots, dirt roads and many wooded areas present the area a rural character, although it is widely considered to be an exurban outgrowth of the South Florida Metropolitan Area. The Acreage is located solely within the Indian Trail Improvement District, responsible for maintaining the road and drainage systems within its boundaries.

The Acreage was originally developed by Samuel Friedland and his develop company, Royal Palm Beach Colony, Inc., with the say of Royal Palm Beach Colony, as a community to home workers that were employed by the within reach Callery Judge and Mecca Citrus Groves. Workers were unqualified 1-acre (4,000 m²) lots and coupled like few house restrictions.

Isolated local flooding occurs yearly, leading sometimes to road closures, with Hurricane Irene creature the most memorable to the area. The 2004 hurricane season, in which Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne struck the Place in a three-week period, doing considerable broken to the older wooden cottage style houses even if the ahead of its time houses in the area received mostly cosmetic damage.

It is also between several birds preserves, and the area blurs the line amongst rural and suburban. Rapid proceed of the area has caused a recent push for raptness and is now notably more built going on than easy to get to Loxahatchee Groves, which was incorporated in 2006.