Lee, Florida.
Typical home $244,127 (-3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$784 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,422 -3%
- $252,549$244,127 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,290 +29%
- $188,837$244,127 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.
- Lee$1,281
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lee, FL fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lee, Madison County, Florida
Lee is a town of 375 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $46,264 a year and half less, against $48,485 across Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lee is a very small town in Madison County, in the north Florida countryside. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and a typical home is worth more than the town's earnings might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in government. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Madison Schools, Stahl-Meyer Foods and Primo Brands - Madison FACTORY. The usual trip to work is a moderate drive, and no one in town works from home.
Things to do. Suwannee River State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Madison Blue Springs State Park, another protected area. A short drive also brings you to the W. T. Davis Building, a museum. Wild Adventures, an amusement park, is a longer drive.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 4,960 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madison weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Madison SchoolsSchool district345FTE
- Stahl-Meyer FoodsMeats, packaged frozen, merchant wholesalers255
- Primo Brands - Madison FACTORYBeverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing206
- North Florida CollegeUniversity or college157
- Lake Park Nursing and Rehab CenterSkilled nursing facilities150
- Madison Health and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities150
- Madison Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital99FTE
- Trulieve Madison CountyManufacturingproductioncultivation99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,337 people in all across the county; Lee has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lee’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 Madison County.
Lee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lee$244,127
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lee13
Zip codes with a Lee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.