Understand Jupiter Inlet Colony before you commit to an address
Jupiter Inlet Colony is a town of four hundred and fifty-six people occupying the southern tip of Jupiter Island, immediately north of the Jupiter Inlet, about two hundred and thirty houses on a private, gated, single-entrance peninsula with the ocean on one side and the Intracoastal on the other. Its typical home value of about $3.87 million is the highest in this layer. Figures are the same two indexes measured the same way in all 24 municipalities on this coast, on Florida's rules including the homestead exemption. Being on the barrier island puts the insurance figure here in the most expensive band in the state outside the Keys, and flood cover is a separate policy on top of it. Zillow publishes no rent index for a municipality this size, so the rent shown is the median of the eighteen here that have one, and is marked as such wherever it appears.
The cost of living in Jupiter Inlet Colony, and what a home costs
Two calculators on Florida's own rules: monthly compounding and the month private mortgage insurance stops, and the closing costs this state actually charges.
Rent or buy in Jupiter Inlet Colony
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. On this coast insurance moves the answer more than the mortgage rate, and you can edit it.
Mortgage calculator
Monthly compounding, the 30-year fixed loan, the private mortgage insurance a low down payment triggers, and Florida's documentary stamp and intangible taxes on the loan itself.
Then work out whether Jupiter Inlet Colony is the right part of this coast
No neighborhood guides for Jupiter Inlet Colony yet. What is here instead is the whole coast on one comparable footing.
All 24 municipalities on the Palm Beach coast
Every municipality from Boca Raton to Tequesta side by side on home value, millage, the rate a homesteaded buyer pays, and which of them pay the county for fire.
Compare the coastThe 24 municipalities of the Orlando metro
Identical rules and exemptions, the same two Zillow indexes, and insurance at less than half what it costs here. It is the clearest measure of what proximity to the Atlantic costs.
Compare coast and inlandWhat buying in Jupiter Inlet Colony actually involves
The town levies 5.5600 mills of its own, runs its own police force, and is outside the Fire/Rescue MSTU: Palm Beach County Fire Rescue dispatches for the town rather than serving it, so none of that district's 3.4581 mills is on the bill. With the county library district's 0.5491 and the Jupiter Inlet District's 0.0722 the total is 18.4393: a homesteaded buyer's rate of about 1.82%, eighth-highest in this layer. On a house at this value that is roughly $70,700 a year in property tax, the largest figure of these twenty-four by a wide margin.
Everything here is barrier island at its most exposed: a narrow peninsula at an inlet mouth, ocean on one side, Intracoastal on the other, one road in and out. Insurance is arranged rather than quoted, flood exposure is comprehensive, and inlet dynamics and beach renourishment are permanent municipal concerns. With around two hundred and thirty houses, the market is a handful of sales a year and the index is an indication of magnitude.
The town is a gated residential enclave with its own police force and no commercial property, so everything it does is funded by a few hundred houses. That is the whole explanation for the millage, and it also means the town's services are unusually direct: a small force, a small budget and a very small tax base.
The lots are on a narrow peninsula between the inlet, the ocean and the Intracoastal, which is the most exposed geometry in this layer. Insurability rather than premium is the real question at that exposure, and it should be settled with a carrier before a price is agreed.
Moving to Jupiter Inlet Colony: check these before you commit
- That a two-hundred-and-thirty-house market cannot support a precise index: treat the figure accordingly.
- Full coastal exposure on a narrow inlet peninsula, and what that means for insurability rather than just cost.
- The town's own rules on construction and access, which are those of a private gated municipality.
- Whether a carrier will write the property at all at this exposure, before agreeing a price.
Jupiter Inlet Colony levies 5.5600 of the 18.4393 mills charged here. The remaining 12.8793 is Palm Beach County, the school district and the countywide special districts, none of which the municipality sets, and none of it is the county Fire/Rescue MSTU, because Jupiter Inlet Colony is outside it.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Jupiter Inlet Colony figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Jupiter Inlet Colony figures come from
- Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, mid-tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value for the 35th to 65th percentile of each municipality's market, computed on one method across all twenty-four, The same series and month the Charlotte and Orlando metro pages use, so all three American layers can be read against each other, Year-over-year change to June 2026
- Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), all homes, smoothed: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: Asking rents across the whole rental stock for the eighteen municipalities Zillow indexes, No index at all for the six smallest, several of which have fewer than five hundred residents
- Taxing Authority Code Description, Palm Beach County 2025 · Palm Beach County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: One row per tax authority code, 123 codes, with a named column for every levy and a published TOTAL, which settles the district set for all twenty-four municipalities by inspection, The Fire/Rescue MSTU at 3.4581 on five of the twenty-four and on no others: South Palm Beach, Lake Worth Beach, Wellington, Royal Palm Beach and Lake Park, The county Library district at 0.5491 on eleven: Ocean Ridge, Hypoluxo, South Palm Beach, Greenacres, Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Palm Beach Shores, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Jupiter Inlet Colony and Tequesta, The Jupiter Inlet District at 0.0722 on three: Jupiter, Tequesta and Jupiter Inlet Colony, Children's Services 0.4908, the Health Care District 0.6561 and F.I.N.D. 0.0270 on all 123 codes, which is why they are countywide here, The published TOTAL every row in this layer reproduces, from Palm Beach's 14.8690 to Lake Worth Beach's 21.6106
- 2025 millage rates by taxing authority, Palm Beach County · Palm Beach County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: The countywide levies: county 4.5000 and county debt 0.0330, school state 3.0730 and local 3.2480, Children's Services 0.4908, Health Care District 0.6561, three SFWMD levies totalling 0.2301 and FIND 0.0270, The conditional Fire/Rescue MSTU at 3.4581 and the separate Jupiter Fire/Rescue MSTU at 1.7251, Every municipality's own operating and debt millage, and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District at 1.0800, A published total for Boca Raton of 17.0029 mills, which this layer's stack reproduces exactly
- 2026 Proposed, Rollback and 2025 Final Millage Rates, Palm Beach County · Palm Beach County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: The 2025 Final column corroborating the three district rates read off the code chart: Fire/Rescue 3.4581, Library 0.5491 and Jupiter Inlet District 0.0722, F.I.N.D. at 0.0270 for 2025, against the 0.0288 this layer carried for a year, which is the 2024 rate
- Table 1: Comparison of Taxes Levied, county and municipal governments, fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26: Palm Beach · Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · retrieved Supports: The adopted 2025-26 millage rate and taxes levied for Palm Beach County and every municipality in it, Independent confirmation of the municipal rates taken from the property appraiser's table