Caryville, Florida.
Typical home $182,995 (-2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$546 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,306 -2%
- $187,301$182,995 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,846 +19%
- $154,149$182,995 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.
- Caryville$960
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Caryville, FL fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caryville, Washington County, Florida
Caryville is a town of 301 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caryville is a very small town in the Florida Panhandle, in Washington County, home to only a small number of residents. Homes here are valued well below what is typical for the country, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool rather than cold, and summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and government, and almost no one works from home. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington Schools, Walmart and Northwest Florida Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than in much of the country, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Falling Waters State Park, another protected area, and to Lake DeFuniak, a lake. The Walton County Heritage Museum is also a longer drive away for anyone who likes local history.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 6,397 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Hope weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington SchoolsSchool district501FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters311
- VenturaNursing homes184
- WestPoint HomeComforters made from purchased fabrics158
- Northwest Florida Community HospitalCritical access hospital138FTE
- Sterling Construction ContractorsSolar reflecting coating, roof, application129
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services82
- Trawick Construction CompanyAll other specialty trade contractors70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,189 people in all across the county; Caryville has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Caryville’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 Washington County.
Caryville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caryville$182,995
- 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.
Zip codes with a Caryville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caryville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.