Key West
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1900
A street, 1900
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About Key West
Island and city in Florida, United StatesKey West (Spanish: Cayo Hueso [kaʝo ˈweso]) is a coral cay island in the Straits of Florida, at the southernmost end of the U.S. state of Florida and its outlying Florida Keys archipelago. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island, it constitutes the City of Key West. For thousands of years, Key West and the surrounding islands were inhabited by various Native American tribes. The island's first recorded European contact occurred in 1513, when an expedition led by Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León circumnavigated the Florida Keys amid his voyage along the coast of Florida, though no permanent sett…
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How Key West ranks
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Housing in Key West
The typical Key West home is worth about $1,007,000, down 0.7% in a year, 168% above the Florida typical home.
A buyer's market
Safety in Key West
Not graded
A grade needs all of the FBI's latest years (2023–2025). Key West's police department reported only 2023 and 2024, so we don't grade it yet. The figures below are still real.
Schools in Key West
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The public schools Key West’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 70% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within FL. Ratings are from neighbors.
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