Macclenny, Florida.
Typical home $305,308 (+2.9% in a year). Jacksonville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$871 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,574 +3%
- $296,734$305,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,906 +20%
- $253,402$305,308 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.
- Macclenny$1,602
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Macclenny, FL rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Macclenny, Baker County, Florida
Macclenny is a city of 7,304 people in Baker County. Half its households earn more than $73,942 a year and half less, against $79,836 across Baker County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Baker County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in finance and property, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Macclenny is a small city and the seat of Baker County, in northeast Florida. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in banking, insurance and property, the building trades, government, and schools, hospitals and social care. Among the largest workplaces in Macclenny are Baker Schools, Walmart and ED Fraser Memorial Hospital. Commutes are fairly long, and some people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Osceola National Forest is a protected area, and Kingsley Lake is a lake, both a longer drive away. Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, also a longer drive away, is an archaeological site tied to the area's history. For a day out in the city, the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a museum, likewise a longer drive away.
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- 2,545households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baker County had 7,471 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer 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 93° and lows near 71°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glen St. Mary West weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macclenny
- Baker SchoolsSchool district650FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- ED Fraser Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital188FTE
- Sovereign Healthcare HoldingsSkilled nursing facilities111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 749 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of MacclennyRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of MacclennyRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Macclenny’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 Baker County and the Jacksonville, FL metro.
Macclenny home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Macclenny$305,308
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Macclenny listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Macclenny30.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Macclenny67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Macclenny15
Zip codes with a Macclenny address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Macclenny — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.