Lighthouse Point, Florida.
Typical home $774,839 (+3.3% in a year), asking rent $3,371 (+9.5%). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,350 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,841 +3%
- $749,998$774,839 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $177,519 +30%
- $597,320$774,839 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.
- Lighthouse Point$4,067
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lighthouse Point, FL rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lighthouse Point, FL rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Lighthouse Point runs $2,132/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,802 in Apr 2024.
That is $5,502 a month against $3,371 rent: a $4,067 mortgage payment, plus $606 property tax and $830 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lighthouse Point
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,502
- Renting$3,371
- Mortgage only$4,067
Property tax · $606/mo 0.94% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Broward County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $830/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lighthouse Point, Broward County, Florida
Lighthouse Point is a city of 10,486 people in Broward County. Half its households earn more than $92,135 a year and half less, against $77,633 across Broward County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Broward County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then finance and property.
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. Lighthouse Point is a small coastal city in Broward County, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run above the county's, and typical home values are high, with rents to match. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with summers that are hot and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. Across Broward County, some of the largest workplaces are Broward Schools, Memorial Regional Hospital and Nova Southeastern University. Commutes are fairly typical, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Butterfly World is a zoo-style attraction, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art offers a quieter afternoon indoors. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, also a short drive off, is a protected area for walking and time outdoors. For a longer outing, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 5,373households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Broward County had 863,595 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 76° and lows near 60°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 78°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pompano Beach Airpark weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Lighthouse Point
- Publix Supermarkets193
- City of Lighthouse Point114
- Bonefish Mac's Sports Grille100
- Sheehan Buick GMC, Inc.100
- Lighthouse Point Yacht Club85
- Phil Smith KIA52
- McDonald's48
- The Nauti Dawg Marina Café46
From the City of Lighthouse Point’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Individual businesses upon payment of annual business tax”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lighthouse Point’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 Broward County and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
Lighthouse Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lighthouse Point$774,839
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lighthouse Point listings, and the typical home goes pending in 91 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Lighthouse Point18.39%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lighthouse Point91
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lighthouse Point172
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lighthouse Point28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lighthouse Point$863,531
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Lighthouse Point94.51%
Zip codes with a Lighthouse Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lighthouse Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.