Gretna, Florida.
Typical home $91,709 (+6.6% in a year). Tallahassee, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$261 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,709 +7%
- $86,000$91,709 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,072 +15%
- $79,637$91,709 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.
- Gretna$481
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Gretna, FL rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gretna, Gadsden County, Florida
Gretna is a city of 1,357 people in Gadsden County. Unemployment in Gadsden County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 5.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gadsden County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gretna is a small city in Gadsden County, in the Florida Panhandle. Homes here are modest in price, and incomes in the county run below the Florida norm. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops and in the building trades. Across Gadsden County, the largest workplaces include Gadsden Schools, Trulieve Midway and Boise Cascade Co. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, nobody works from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Most outdoor places are a longer drive away. Lake Seminole is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and Torreya State Park is a protected area of wooded bluffs along the river. Lake Talquin is another lake in the area, and Doak Campbell Stadium, a college football stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Gadsden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gadsden County had 15,415 jobs in 2025, 5.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Quincy Ssw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gadsden County
- Gadsden SchoolsSchool district772FTE
- Trulieve MidwayManufacturingproductioncultivation431
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing316
- Ajax Building CompanyConstruction management, commercial and institutional building315
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters220
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated193
- Waste Pro of Florida185
- Equix Energy Services, LLC - TallahasseePipeline, gas and oil, construction180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,908 people in all across the county; Gretna has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gretna’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 Gadsden County and the Tallahassee, FL metro.
Gretna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gretna$91,709
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Gretna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gretna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.