Chiefland, Florida.
Typical home $173,400 (-1.0% in a year). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$485 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,713 -1%
- $175,113$173,400 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,850 +19%
- $145,550$173,400 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.
- Chiefland$910
- 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 Chiefland, FL fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chiefland, Levy County, Florida
Chiefland is a city of 2,316 people in Levy County. Unemployment in Levy County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Levy County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chiefland is a small city in Levy County, in the part of Florida often called the Nature Coast. Incomes in the county run below what is typical for the state, and many residents are living on tight budgets. Winters are mild, with cool nights in January, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year and almost no snow.
Work. Residents of Chiefland tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Levy County, the largest workplaces include Levy Schools, Walmart and Seabring Marine Industries Corporate. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and there are slightly fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. Fanning Springs State Park and Manatee Springs State Park are both a short drive away, and the Waccasassa River is close by too. For a longer outing, the Suwannee River is a longer drive away, as is Devil's Den, an archaeological site. Andrews Wildlife Management Area, also a short drive away, offers more open country to explore.
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- 868households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
What people in Levy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Levy County had 9,070 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Usher Twr weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Levy County
- Levy SchoolsSchool district781FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Seabring Marine Industries CorporateBoats manufacturing309
- Williston Nursing and RehabSkilled nursing facilities144
- Whistling DuckSolar power structure construction128
- Central Florida Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power111
- Alliance DairiesMilk production, dairy cattle105
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,788 people in all across the county; Chiefland has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chiefland’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 Levy County and the Gainesville, FL metro.
Chiefland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chiefland$173,400
- 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.
- Chiefland16
Zip codes with a Chiefland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chiefland — 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.