Gotha, Florida.
Typical home $502,043 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,950 . Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,437 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,397 +0%
- $499,646$502,043 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,382 +28%
- $392,661$502,043 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.
- Gotha$2,635
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Gotha, FL rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gotha, Orange County, Florida
Gotha, in Orange County, had 2,217 people in the 2020 census. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gotha is a small community in Orange County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than is typical across the county. Typical home values are high, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year and no real snow to speak of.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Some people work from home. Across Orange County, large workplaces include SeaWorld, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts US and Adventhealth Orlando. Unemployment across the county has edged up a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. Several well-known attractions lie a short drive away, including Universal Studios Florida, an amusement park, and SeaWorld Orlando, an aquarium. Magic Kingdom, another amusement park, is also a short drive from town. Walt Disney World Resort, the best known of them all, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 954,330 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 49°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orlando West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Orange County
- Walt Disney World Co.80,000
- Advent Health/Florida Hospital40,000
- Universal Orlando Resort32,084
- Orlando Health28,806
- Orange County Public Schools24,685
- Lockheed Martin Corp.14,000
- University of Central Florida13,645
- Orange County Government12,268
From Orange County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Source: Orlando Business Journal: 2025 Book of Lists, Central Florida”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of GothaRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of GothaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gotha’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 Orange County and the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
Gotha home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gotha$502,043
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Gotha 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gotha19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gotha address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gotha — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.