Bokeelia, Florida.
Typical home $374,273 (-2.2% in a year). Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$979 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,598 -2%
- $382,871$374,273 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,869 +5%
- $357,404$374,273 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Bokeelia$1,964
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 75 years.
Typical home values in Bokeelia, FL fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bokeelia, Lee County, Florida
Bokeelia, in Lee County, had 1,855 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $71,250 a year and half less, against $76,107 across Lee County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Bokeelia is a small community at the northern end of Pine Island, on Florida's Gulf coast. Almost everyone here owns the home they live in, far more than is typical of towns in general, and household incomes run somewhat below the county's. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare to nonexistent, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Lee County, the largest workplaces include LEE Schools, LEE Memorial Hospital and Gulf Coast Medical Center. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Several protected places lie a short drive away, among them Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge, Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge and Cayo Costa State Park. Mark Pardo Shellworks Site, an archaeological site, is in or beside town. For a longer outing, J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive away.
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- 788households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 301,860 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 77° and lows near 52°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 75°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Punta Gorda Ese weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Lee County
- Lee Health16,506
- Lee County School District12,264
- Lee County Local Government9,959
- Publix Super Market5,730
- Walmart3,357
- Amazon2,365
- Herc Rentals2,213
- Gartner, Inc.2,000
From Lee County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Lee County Office of Economic Development, SW Florida Economic Development Alliance, Florida Research and Economic Database, and U.S.…”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bokeelia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Lee County and the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro.
Bokeelia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bokeelia$374,273
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bokeelia listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bokeelia21.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bokeelia95
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bokeelia12
Zip codes with a Bokeelia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bokeelia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.