Bascom, Florida.
Typical home $170,176 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$498 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $103 +0%
- $170,073$170,176 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,258 +18%
- $143,918$170,176 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.
- Bascom$893
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Bascom, FL rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bascom, Jackson County, Florida
Bascom is a town of 87 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bascom is a very small town in Jackson County, in the Florida Panhandle, where most people know one another. Winters are cool and summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year. Life here moves at a quieter pace than in the larger towns nearby.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government offices, in professional and business services, and in local shops. Jobs across the county have dropped slightly from a year earlier, and unemployment has risen over the same period. Those changes are worth keeping in mind for anyone weighing work or retirement plans here.
Things to do. Florida Caverns State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known sights in the region. Chattahoochee State Park, also a protected area, is a short drive away. Lake Seminole, a reservoir, is a longer drive away and offers a wide stretch of open water.
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- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 14,429 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marianna Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Jackson SchoolsSchool district918FTE
- Jackson HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical700
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- Family Dollar, LLC DC207General warehousing and storage352
- Chipola CollegeUniversity or college230
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated218
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice164
- Rex Lumber, GracevilleSawmills164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,134 people in all across the county; Bascom has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bascom’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 Jackson County.
Bascom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bascom$170,176
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bascom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bascom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.