High Springs, Florida.
Typical home $321,631 (+0.2% in a year). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$949 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $699 +0%
- $320,932$321,631 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,885 +25%
- $256,746$321,631 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.
- High Springs$1,688
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in High Springs, FL rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in High Springs, Alachua County, Florida
High Springs is a city of 6,215 people in Alachua County. Half its households earn more than $94,421 a year and half less, against $61,949 across Alachua County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Alachua County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. High Springs is a small city in Alachua County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring any snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services and the building trades. Across Alachua County, some of the largest workplaces are UF Health Shands, Alachua Schools and Santa Fe College. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park and O'Leno State Park are both a short drive away, offering protected natural areas to explore. For a day out, the Florida Museum of Natural History is a longer drive away. The Ichetucknee River is also a longer drive away, a river for those who like to be on the water.
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- 2,165households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alachua County had 140,869 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 67° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the High Springs weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alachua County
- UF Health ShandsGeneral hospital8,042FTE
- Alachua SchoolsSchool district3,742FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs3,456
- HCA Florida North Florida HospGeneral hospital1,782FTE
- Santa Fe CollegeUniversity or college1,309
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,149
- AlachuaGeneral warehousing and storage703
- AxogenBlood banks619
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 179 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,417 people in all across the county; High Springs has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in High Springs’ 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 Alachua County and the Gainesville, FL metro.
High Springs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- High Springs$321,631
- 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 3 High Springs 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.
- High Springs34.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- High Springs69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- High Springs18
Zip codes with a High Springs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls High Springs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.