Dundee, Florida.
Typical home $261,783 (-4.2% in a year). Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$710 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,382 -4%
- $273,165$261,783 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,286 +13%
- $231,497$261,783 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.
- Dundee$1,374
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Dundee, FL fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dundee, Polk County, Florida
Dundee is a town of 5,235 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $48,668 a year and half less, against $65,978 across Polk County. Unemployment in Polk County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Polk 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dundee is a small town in Polk County with a younger population than many Florida communities. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by relatively few adults. Winters are mild and almost never bring snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Some of the town's largest workplaces reflect its farming roots, including the Dundee Citrus Growers Association, which sorts, grades and packs fruit, along with a Winn-Dixie supermarket and Maxijet, which makes irrigation equipment. Commutes tend to be long, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Bok Tower Gardens, a botanical garden, and Cypress Gardens, which is listed as an amusement park, sit a short drive away. Legoland Florida is another amusement park a short drive away. Walt Disney World Resort and its parks are a longer drive.
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- 1,981households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Polk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 264,981 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 75° and lows near 50°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain Lake weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dundee
- Dundee Citrus Growers AssociationFruit sorting, grading, and packing139
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.Supermarket67
- MaxijetIrrigation equipment, agriculture, manufacturing21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 227 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of DundeeRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of DundeeRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dundee’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 Polk County and the Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL metro.
Dundee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dundee$261,783
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dundee 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.
- Dundee27.03%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dundee37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dundee8
Zip codes with a Dundee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dundee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.