Alva, Florida.
Typical home $375,364 (-4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,263 . Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,004 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,418 -4%
- $391,782$375,364 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,850 +7%
- $351,514$375,364 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.
- Alva$1,970
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in Alva, FL fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alva, Lee County, Florida
Alva, in Lee County, had 2,725 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $85,919 a year and half less, against $76,107 across Lee County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alva is a small community in Lee County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home, far more than is typical across the county or the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and days still comfortably warm, while summers are hot, with August the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in the building trades. Across Lee County, the biggest workplaces include LEE Schools, LEE Memorial Hospital and Florida Gulf Coast University. The commute is on the long side, so many people spend a good part of the day travelling to work.
Things to do. The Caloosahatchee River, the long river that gives the area its character, is a longer drive away. So is Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a protected area known for its wetland walking. For history, the Edison and Ford Winter Estates, a botanical garden and historic site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,238households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 301,860 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 75° and lows near 49°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the La Belle weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Lee County
- Lee Health16,506
- Lee County School District12,264
- Lee County Local Government9,959
- Publix Super Market5,730
- Walmart3,357
- Amazon2,365
- Herc Rentals2,213
- Gartner, Inc.2,000
From Lee County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Lee County Office of Economic Development, SW Florida Economic Development Alliance, Florida Research and Economic Database, and U.S.…”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alva’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 Lee County and the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro.
Alva home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alva$375,364
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Alva listings, and the typical home goes pending in 58 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.
- Alva20.75%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Alva58
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alva186
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alva30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Alva address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alva — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.