Where Does Rickie Lee Jones Live in Florida? Her Home and the Palm Beach County Rumor

Where does Rickie Lee Jones live? In New Orleans, Louisiana, where the two-time Grammy winner moved in 2012 and has recorded and worked since. She does not have a confirmed home in Florida. A few celebrity-address websites list a Palm Beach County connection for her, but we could not find a newspaper, magazine or property record that backs it up. This post lays out what public reporting says, why the Florida rumor may exist, and what homes cost in the part of Palm Beach County the rumor points to.

Key takeaways

• New Orleans, since 2012. Wikipedia, OffBeat magazine and NPR all place her in the city, and her 2015 album came out of the move.
• No reported Florida purchase. No price, year or town appears in any reputable outlet, so we do not list one.
• A long trail of earlier homes: Phoenix as a child, Venice and Los Angeles in the 1970s, Paris in 1983, and Tacoma, Washington, around 2000.
• The rumor's target market is Palm Beach County, where our MLS feed shows medians from about $310,000 in West Palm Beach to about $2.5 million in Palm Beach.

Where does Rickie Lee Jones live in Florida?

She does not, as far as any reputable reporting shows. We searched news archives, her official site and the usual real estate trade press for a Florida purchase in her name. Nothing came back. Her official website lists tour dates and news but no home base other than New Orleans. Wikipedia's biography, which cites newspaper profiles, says she moved to New Orleans after September 2012 and does not mention Florida at all.

That is worth saying plainly, because celebrity-home content often fills a gap with a guess. Pure Equity does not publish private addresses, and we also do not invent a town. If a credible outlet reports a Florida home for her in the future, we will update this page. Until then, the answer to the question is Louisiana.

Readers who landed here from a search about Palm Beach County can still get something useful from the post. The second half covers what homes cost in the towns the rumor names, and how they compare with New Orleans.

Where the Palm Beach County claim comes from

The Florida link appears on people-search and celebrity-address aggregator sites, which build pages from public records and often confuse people who share a name. Jones is a common surname, and "Rickie" has several spellings. One biography on Encyclopedia.com does list Florida among the places whose energy shaped her songwriting, next to Paris, New York, the Pacific Northwest and New Orleans. But that is a line about musical influence, not a residence.

There is also a South Florida art newsletter called The Rickie Report, based in Palm Beach County, that turns up in searches for her name. It has no connection to the singer. Between the name overlap and the aggregator pages, it is easy to see how a rumor forms. It is not evidence of a home.

A quick test helps. A real celebrity purchase leaves a trail: a deed, a trade-press story, a broker press release. For Jones, none of those exist in Florida. For her New Orleans move, the trail is clear and dates to 2012. That gap is the whole story.

Inside her reported New Orleans move

The New Orleans chapter is well documented. Jones relocated there in late 2012, after decades in California. OffBeat, the city's music magazine, has covered her local shows and described her as a resident. A radio producer, Scott Carrier, interviewed her near her home there for a piece on her career. Her 2015 record, The Other Side of Desire, grew out of the move, and she has said the city gave her a fresh start as a writer.

She followed it with Kicks in 2019 and Pieces of Treasure in 2023, an album of standards. Her memoir, Last Chance Texaco, came out from Grove Press in 2021 and covers the itinerant childhood and the Los Angeles years. Public reporting does not give a price, size or neighborhood for the New Orleans home, and she has kept it private. That is consistent with how she has handled her homes for 40 years.

Why Rickie Lee Jones chose New Orleans

In interviews around the 2015 album she described New Orleans as a place where music still lives on the street, and where she could work without the pressure of the Los Angeles industry. She was in her late 50s at the time and had spent most of her adult life on the West Coast. So the move reads as a creative reset more than a financial one.

The city also has a lower cost of living than Los Angeles, and a deep pool of session players. For a singer who records with small jazz and roots bands, that matters. Those are the reasons she and the outlets covering her have given. We have not seen any reporting of a Florida factor in the decision.

Where else does Rickie Lee Jones live?

Her earlier homes trace her career. Born in Chicago in 1954, she grew up mostly in Phoenix, Arizona, from about age 4 to 14, then bounced through Olympia, Washington, before landing in Venice, California, at 21. She sang in bars and coffee houses there, and her 1979 debut came out of that scene. After the success of Chuck E.'s in Love she spent time in Paris, including about four months in 1983.

By 2000 she had settled in Tacoma, Washington. A Seattle Times profile that year described her living in a small blue house with a white picket fence, at age 45, raising her daughter. Los Angeles came back into the picture in the 2000s before the 2012 move south. As of the latest reporting, New Orleans is her only home. When she is not there, she is on tour, which in most years includes dates across the United States and Europe.

What homes in Palm Beach County cost

Since the rumor points here, this is what the market looks like. Our MLS feed as of September 2026 shows about 2,200 active listings in West Palm Beach, with a median list price near $310,000 and an average of about 116 days on market. The city has the county's main concert venue, the Kravis Center, and a downtown that has drawn musicians and retirees alike.

Across the bridge, Palm Beach is another world: about 270 active listings, a median list price around $2.5 million, and homes that sit an average of 191 days before they sell. Farther south, Delray Beach shows about 1,860 listings with a median near $279,000, though the oceanfront trades far higher.

Buyers who want the walkable, older-house feel of a New Orleans neighborhood tend to look at historic districts like El Cid in West Palm Beach. Our luxury homes hub covers the high end across the county, and the waterfront homes hub covers the Intracoastal side.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Rickie Lee Jones live now?

In New Orleans, Louisiana, according to her official site, OffBeat magazine and Wikipedia. She moved there in 2012. No reputable outlet reports a home anywhere else as of September 2026.

Where in Florida does Rickie Lee Jones live?

Nowhere, based on the public record. The Palm Beach County link comes from people-search sites, not from news reporting or a property sale. So where does Rickie Lee Jones live if not in Florida? New Orleans, full stop.

Where does Rickie Lee Jones live full time?

New Orleans is her primary and only reported home. She spends much of each year touring. There is no reported second home in Florida or elsewhere.

Has Rickie Lee Jones ever lived in Florida?

Not that any biography or profile records. Her documented homes are Chicago, Phoenix, Olympia, Venice and Los Angeles, Paris, Tacoma and New Orleans. One reference work lists Florida as a musical influence, which is a different thing.

What is Rickie Lee Jones best known for?

Her 1979 debut album and its single Chuck E.'s in Love, which reached the top five. She won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1980 and a second Grammy in 1990 for a duet with Dr. John. Her 2021 memoir, Last Chance Texaco, drew wide praise.

If you own a home in West Palm Beach, Delray Beach or anywhere in Palm Beach County and want a real number rather than a rumor, ask for a free home valuation from Pure Equity. Buyers can browse West Palm Beach listings or see luxury homes across South Florida. For musicians who do own here, read our posts on celebrities who live in Florida and celebrities who live in South Florida.

Sources

• Wikipedia, Rickie Lee Jones (biography with residence history)
• OffBeat, Rickie Lee Jones to bring iconic music and storytelling to Manship Theatre
• The Seattle Times, Rickie Lee Jones profile (2000, Tacoma)
• Encyclopedia.com, Rickie Lee Jones biography

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.