Bay Hill, Florida.
Typical home $881,919 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $3,200 . Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,696 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,685 +2%
- $864,234$881,919 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $247,280 +39%
- $634,640$881,919 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.
- Bay Hill$4,629
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Bay Hill, FL rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bay Hill, Orange County, Florida
Bay Hill, in Orange County, had 5,021 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $127,763 a year and half less, against $79,719 across Orange County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bay Hill is a small community in Orange County with an older population than most places, and household incomes well above the county's. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes and rents are priced high, and the winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still pleasant and summers that turn hot in July. Rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts US, SeaWorld and Adventhealth Orlando. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Theme parks are the main draw nearby. Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure are in or beside town, and Walt Disney World Resort, with its several parks, is a short drive away. SeaWorld Orlando, an aquarium and marine park, is also a short drive away.
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- 1,706households
- 1%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 954,330 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 49°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orlando West weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Orange County
- Walt Disney World Co.80,000
- Advent Health/Florida Hospital40,000
- Universal Orlando Resort32,084
- Orlando Health28,806
- Orange County Public Schools24,685
- Lockheed Martin Corp.14,000
- University of Central Florida13,645
- Orange County Government12,268
From Orange County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Source: Orlando Business Journal: 2025 Book of Lists, Central Florida”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bay Hill’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 Orange County and the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
Bay Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bay Hill$881,919
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bay Hill listings — 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.
- Bay Hill28.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bay Hill32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bay Hill6
Zip codes with a Bay Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bay Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.