Sea Ranch Lakes is a village of roughly two-tenths of a square mile on North Ocean Drive (A1A), with 540 residents at the 2020 census. Lauderdale-By-The-Sea surrounds it to the north and south, the Atlantic lies to the east and the Intracoastal Waterway to the west.
The gated residential community was developed in 1956, three years before the village incorporated on October 6, 1959. The homes are walled in and arranged around two man-made freshwater lakes, and some lots back onto the Intracoastal. The old Sea Ranch Hotel, opened in 1940, closed in the early 1980s and was replaced by the Sea Ranch Lakes Condominiums. The oceanfront and beach clubhouse belong to the Sea Ranch Beach Club rather than the village.