Clewiston, Florida.
Typical home $248,131 (-1.0% in a year). Clewiston, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$811 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,546 -1%
- $250,677$248,131 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,473 +40%
- $177,657$248,131 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.
- Clewiston$1,302
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Clewiston, FL fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clewiston, Hendry County, Florida
Clewiston is a city of 7,327 people in Hendry County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Hendry County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hendry County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clewiston is a small city in Hendry County, in the farming country of south Florida. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes in the county run on the low side for the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with summers that turn properly hot and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Clewiston are Hendry Regional Medical Center, Florida Community Health Centers and Kelly Tractor Co. Almost everyone commutes to a job outside the home, and the drive is a fairly short one.
Things to do. John Stretch Park is a park a short drive away, and the Clewiston Museum is in or beside town. Lake Okeechobee, one of the best known lakes in the state, is a longer drive away. Those who like open country can also head out to Fisheating Creek, a river a longer drive from town.
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- 2,698households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Hendry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hendry County had 12,747 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 74° and lows near 51°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clewiston #2 weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clewiston
- Hendry Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital145FTE
- Florida Community Health CentersPhysicians' offices36
- Kelly Tractor CoConstruction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers33
- sunrise Community of SW FloridaResidential intellectual & developmental disability facilties24
- Goodwill Industries of SWFLThrift shops, used merchandise21
- ClewistonMail and parcel delivery20
- Vision Ace Hardware, ClewistonHardware stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 154 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clewiston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Hendry County and the Clewiston, FL metro.
Clewiston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clewiston$248,131
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Clewiston listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Clewiston17.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clewiston72
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clewiston12
Zip codes with a Clewiston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clewiston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.