Longwood, Florida.
Typical home $455,153 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,933 (+2.2%). Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,285 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,490 +1%
- $451,662$455,153 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,606 +25%
- $365,546$455,153 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.
- Longwood$2,389
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Longwood, FL rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Longwood, FL rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Longwood runs $1,198/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,406 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,131 a month against $1,933 rent: a $2,389 mortgage payment, plus $255 property tax and $487 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Longwood
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$3,131
- Renting$1,933
- Mortgage only$2,389
Property tax · $255/mo 0.67% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Seminole County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $487/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 Longwood, Seminole County, Florida
Longwood is a city of 15,087 people in Seminole County. Half its households earn more than $78,548 a year and half less, against $85,761 across Seminole County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Seminole County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Longwood is a small city in Seminole County, in the Orlando area of central Florida. Most homes are lived in by their owners, with fewer renters than you would find in many cities, and the population leans a little older than the country as a whole. Household incomes run below the county's, while typical home values and rents are on the high side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Longwood are UPS, the Orlando Health Behavioral Health Hospital and the nursing home Island Lake. Commutes are typical for a metro area, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Longwood sits within reach of Orlando's big attractions, though each is a longer drive away. Walt Disney World Resort, the best known, is an amusement park complex, and Universal Studios Florida is another theme park in the area. Camping World Stadium is the nearest of the big stadiums on the list, also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 6,465households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seminole County had 214,336 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 50°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 74°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orlando Sanford Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Longwood
- UPS716
- Kustom651
- Orlando Health-South Seminole Hospital450
- Comprehensive Energy Services390
- D&B Building Services280
- Seminole County Schools222
- S.I Goldman211
- City Of Longwood174
From the City of Longwood’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers, as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Longwood’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 Seminole County and the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
Longwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Longwood$455,153
- 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 Longwood listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 days — 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.
- Longwood33.92%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Longwood25
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Longwood230
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Longwood68
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Longwood$466,291
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Longwood98.00%
Zip codes with a Longwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Longwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Longwood
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32779 | Longwood | 28,924 | $1,847 | $539,789 |
| 32750 | Longwood | 26,164 | $2,010 | $397,340 |