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Hypoluxo is a small town in Palm Beach County, Florida, whose official motto is "The Home of the Barefoot Mailman."

The name Hypoluxo comes from a Seminole name for the Lake Worth Lagoon - pioneer Charles W. Pierce recalled being told it meant "water all around, no get out," while another derivation from Creek-Seminole words gives it the meaning "round mound."

Hypoluxo pioneer Hannibal Pierce settled on Hypoluxo Island with his family in 1872, and the mainland townsite was permanently settled in 1884 by Andrew Walton Garnett, James Edward Hamilton, and James William Porter.

Two of Hypoluxo's early settlers, Garnett and Hamilton, carried the mail along the beach between the Lake Worth area and Miami as barefoot mailmen, walking the sand because no road existed.

Hypoluxo was not officially incorporated as a town until 1955, decades after it was first settled.

Hypoluxo had a population of 2,687 at the 2020 census, living in 1,449 households packed into a town of only about 0.8 square miles.

Despite its name, the Town of Hypoluxo sits on the mainland shore of Lake Worth Lagoon and does not include any part of Hypoluxo Island.

Hypoluxo is home to the Hypoluxo Scrub Natural Area, a protected patch of native Florida scrub habitat preserved inside this otherwise built-up coastal town.

Hypoluxo skews older than most Florida towns, with a median age of 54.6 years at the 2020 census and nearly 30% of residents aged 65 or older.

In the 2000 census, Hypoluxo had one of the highest shares of Canadian residents of any place in the United States at 5.4% of the population, along with a notable Finnish community reflected in the 4.5% of residents who spoke Finnish at home.