Pahokee, Florida.
Typical home $206,359 (+3.0% in a year). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$575 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,098 +3%
- $200,261$206,359 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,244 +19%
- $174,115$206,359 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.
- Pahokee$1,083
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Pahokee, FL rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pahokee, Palm Beach County, Florida
Pahokee is a city of 5,524 people in Palm Beach County. Unemployment in Palm Beach County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Palm Beach 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pahokee is a small city in Palm Beach County, on the southeastern edge of Lake Okeechobee. Homes here cost well below what is typical for the county, and the same goes for household incomes in the county overall. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is common nationally. Winters are mild, with the coolest weather coming in January, and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Across Palm Beach County, some of the largest workplaces are Palm Beach Schools, NextEra Energy and Florida Atlantic University.
Things to do. The Museum of the Glades is a short drive away and is the nearest of the local sights. Lake Okeechobee, a large lake, is a longer drive away, as is the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Lion Country Safari, a zoo, is also a longer drive.
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- 1,551households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Palm Beach County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Palm Beach County had 670,798 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 74° and lows near 57°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 55 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canal Pt Usda weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Palm Beach County
- Palm Beach SchoolsSchool district22,545FTE
- NextEra EnergyCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices4,470
- Florida Atlantic UniversityUniversity or college3,530
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,654
- Boca Raton Regional HospitalGeneral hospital2,406FTE
- The Breakers Palm BeachHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities2,406
- HCA Florida JFK HospitalGeneral hospital2,137FTE
- Bethesda HospitalGeneral hospital2,053FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 917 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 137,371 people in all across the county; Pahokee has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of PahokeeRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pahokee’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Palm Beach County and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
Pahokee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pahokee$206,359
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pahokee9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pahokee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pahokee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.