Ellenton, Florida.
Typical home $388,167 (-3.8% in a year), asking rent $2,117 (-1.1%). North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$995 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,173 -4%
- $403,341$388,167 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,327 +4%
- $373,840$388,167 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.
- Ellenton$2,037
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 92 years.
Typical home values in Ellenton, FL fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Ellenton, FL fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Ellenton runs $588/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $725 in Jun 2025.
That is $2,705 a month against $2,117 rent: a $2,037 mortgage payment, plus $252 property tax and $416 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Ellenton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,705
- Renting$2,117
- Mortgage only$2,037
Property tax · $252/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Manatee County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $416/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Ellenton, Manatee County, Florida
Ellenton, in Manatee County, had 4,129 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $71,402 a year and half less, against $78,457 across Manatee County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Manatee County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Manatee County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Ellenton is a small community in Manatee County, near the Manatee and Braden rivers. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical homes and rents are not cheap by local standards. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with very little snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Manatee County, the largest workplaces include Manatee Schools, Manatee Memorial Hospital and Feld Entertainment. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Gamble Plantation Historic State Park and the Braden River are in or beside town, and the Manatee River is a short drive away. The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature is also a short drive away, and for a longer outing, Siesta Key is a beach a longer drive away.
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- 1,742households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Manatee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Manatee County had 146,007 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 72° and lows near 52°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bradenton Ese weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Manatee County
- Manatee County School Board5,804
- Manatee Healthcare System2,804
- Publix2,600
- Amazon2,500
- Manatee County Government2,493
- Beall's, Inc.2,300
- Blake Medical Center1,742
- Manatee County Sheriff's Department1,275
From Manatee County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers, as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ellenton’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 Manatee County and the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL metro.
Ellenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ellenton$388,167
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Ellenton 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.
- Ellenton30.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ellenton66
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ellenton13
Zip codes with a Ellenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ellenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.