Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Typical home $509,743 (-0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,697 (+2.0%). Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,387 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,088 -1%
- $512,832$509,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,561 +23%
- $415,182$509,743 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.
- Fort Lauderdale$2,676
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Fort Lauderdale, FL fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fort Lauderdale, FL rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fort Lauderdale runs $923/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,365 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,620 a month against $2,697 rent: a $2,676 mortgage payment, plus $399 property tax and $546 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fort Lauderdale
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$3,620
- Renting$2,697
- Mortgage only$2,676
Property tax · $399/mo 0.94% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Broward County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $546/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 Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida
Fort Lauderdale is a city of 182,760 people in Broward County. Half its households earn more than $83,130 a year and half less, against $77,633 across Broward County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Fort Lauderdale was 4.5% in August 2026, and Broward County had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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. Fort Lauderdale is a city in Broward County, with a median age a little older than you might expect in a big coastal city. Household incomes run above the county's, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than by renters, though renting is a real part of the picture, and both homes and rents are costly. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still pleasantly warm, summers are hot, there is little or no snow, and the rainfall is plentiful across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Broward Schools, Broward Health Medical Center and Holy Cross Hospital. Unemployment has edged up over the past year, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is a modest one by big-city standards, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park is a protected natural area, and the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale offers galleries to wander. A short drive away, the New River is a place for time by the water, and Butterfly World is a zoo-style attraction devoted to butterflies. Sports fans can reach Chase Stadium after a short drive.
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- 80,999households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Broward County had 863,595 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 77° and lows near 60°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 77°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Lauderdale Beach weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Lauderdale
- Broward SchoolsSchool district27,217FTE
- Moss & Associates, LLC Company Roll UpConstruction management, commercial and institutional building4,665
- Keiser University-Ft LauderdaleUniversity or college3,730
- Broward Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,869FTE
- Holy Cross HospitalGeneral hospital2,634FTE
- Broward CollegeUniversity or college2,546
- Champion Painting Specialty ServicesPainting contractors1,539
- Lennox National Account ServicesAir-conditioning system installation1,146
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 168 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,821 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of Fort LauderdaleRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Fort LauderdaleRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Lauderdale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Broward County and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL metro.
Fort Lauderdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Lauderdale$509,743
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Fort Lauderdale listings, and the typical home goes pending in 68 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Fort Lauderdale18.69%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fort Lauderdale68
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Lauderdale2,698
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fort Lauderdale437
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fort Lauderdale$568,004
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fort Lauderdale94.78%
Zip codes with a Fort Lauderdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Lauderdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fort Lauderdale
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33311 | Fort Lauderdale | 74,898 | $2,379 | $363,199 |
| 33312 | Fort Lauderdale | 52,798 | $2,635 | $482,226 |
| 33308 | Fort Lauderdale | 27,935 | $2,529 | $517,770 |
| 33301 | Fort Lauderdale | 19,503 | $3,150 | $864,212 |
| 33304 | Fort Lauderdale | 18,332 | $2,459 | $594,238 |
| 33315 | Fort Lauderdale | 13,645 | $2,566 | $537,943 |
| 33305 | Fort Lauderdale | 13,243 | $2,277 | $680,405 |
| 33316 | Fort Lauderdale | 12,437 | $2,752 | $725,589 |
| 33306 | Fort Lauderdale | 2,978 | $2,514 | $587,310 |