Siesta Key, Florida.
Typical home $828,780 (-0.7% in a year), asking rent $6,661 . North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,098 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,114 -1%
- $834,895$828,780 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,793 +5%
- $789,987$828,780 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.
- Siesta Key$4,350
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 72 years.
Typical home values in Siesta Key, FL fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Siesta Key, Sarasota County, Florida
Siesta Key, in Sarasota County, had 5,454 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $115,854 a year and half less, against $83,416 across Sarasota County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Sarasota County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Siesta Key is a small beachside community with an older population than most of the country, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values and rents are high. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and still pleasantly cool by day, while summers are hot, August being the warmest. Rain falls through the year, and snow is not part of the picture.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in banks, insurance and property. A large share of people work from home, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Across Sarasota County, the biggest workplaces include Sarasota Schools and Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and unemployment has edged up a little over the past year even as the county added jobs.
Things to do. The beach is the heart of life here, with Siesta Key and Siesta Beach both in or beside town. A short drive away are the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Mote Marine Laboratory, an aquarium. Anna Maria Island, another beach, is a longer drive for a day out.
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- 2,959households
- 67%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 40%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sarasota County had 194,499 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 72° and lows near 52°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sarasota Bradenton Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sarasota County
- Sarasota SchoolsSchool district6,444FTE
- Sarasota Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital4,560FTE
- Option Care EnterprisesHome health care agencies1,676
- PGT Industries - Assembly PlantFrames, door and window, metal, manufacturing1,424
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital VeniceGeneral hospital982FTE
- Certified Collectibles GroupAppraisal services681
- Ajax PavingRoad construction650
- Helios Technologies332912 fluid power valve and hose fitting manufacturing575
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 315 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 36,886 people in all across the county; Siesta Key has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Siesta Key’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Sarasota County and the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL metro.
Siesta Key home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Siesta Key$828,780
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Siesta Key listings, and the typical home goes pending in 115 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.
- Siesta Key13.42%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Siesta Key115
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Siesta Key289
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Siesta Key38
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Siesta Key$938,464
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Siesta Key93.81%
Zip codes with a Siesta Key address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Siesta Key — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.