Tequesta, Florida.
Typical home $651,949 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $3,852 (+13.4%). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,034 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,882 +4%
- $629,066$651,949 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $151,345 +30%
- $500,604$651,949 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.
- Tequesta$3,422
- 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 Tequesta, FL rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Tequesta, FL rose 13.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Tequesta runs $737/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,759 in May 2024.
That is $4,588 a month against $3,852 rent: a $3,422 mortgage payment, plus $469 property tax and $698 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Tequesta
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$4,588
- Renting$3,852
- Mortgage only$3,422
Property tax · $469/mo 0.86% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Palm Beach County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $698/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 Tequesta, Palm Beach County, Florida
Tequesta is a village of 6,158 people in Palm Beach County. Half its households earn more than $98,271 a year and half less, against $83,581 across Palm Beach County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. 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. Tequesta is a small village where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run higher than across Palm Beach County. Home values and rents sit on the high side, and a good many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still pleasantly warm, and summers are hot and wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops, restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in town is Publix Super Markets, along with a food service contractor, PAR Offsite. Many residents work from home, more than is typical elsewhere, and the commute for those who travel to a job is of middling length.
Things to do. The Loxahatchee River runs in or beside town, and Jonathan Dickinson State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is the Hibel Museum of Art. For a longer outing, the Norton Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 2,795households
- 52%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 39%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 75° and lows near 58°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 76°. About 72 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Juno Beach weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Tequesta
- Palm Beach County School District22,801
- Palm Beach County12,767
- Baptist Health South Florida (prev. Bethesda Hospital)6,773
- Florida Atlantic University6,335
- NextEra Energy, Inc. (Hdqtrs) / FL Power & Light6,139
- Tenet Coastal Division Palm Beach County5,734
- Veterans Health Administration2,948
- Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)2,850
From the Village of Tequesta’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, Florida (last updated January 2025)”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tequesta’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 Palm Beach County and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
Tequesta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tequesta$651,949
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Tequesta listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 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.
- Tequesta19.38%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Tequesta20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tequesta147
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tequesta37
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Tequesta$612,683
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Tequesta93.80%
Zip codes with a Tequesta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tequesta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.