Malabar, Florida.
Typical home $535,495 (+2.9% in a year). Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,618 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,933 +3%
- $520,562$535,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $113,180 +27%
- $422,315$535,495 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.
- Malabar$2,811
- 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 Malabar, FL rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Malabar, Brevard County, Florida
Malabar is a town of 2,949 people in Brevard County. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Brevard County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malabar is a small town on Florida's Space Coast, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home. Homes are worth more than is typical, and household incomes are healthy for the county, with very few residents living in poverty. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs still comfortable, while summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in banks, insurance and property. Across Brevard County, the largest workplaces include Brevard Schools, Northrop Grumman Systems and Blue Origin Rocket Park. A good number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Indian River Lagoon Preserve State Park are both a short drive away, as is Crane Creek, a river. For a day further afield, Brevard Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 1,215households
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brevard County had 243,568 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 70° and lows near 54°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Melbourne Beach A1a weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brevard County
- Brevard SchoolsSchool district8,976FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsAircraft manufacturing4,999
- Blue Origin Rocket ParkGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing2,640
- AstonSkilled nursing facilities2,262
- Holmes Regl Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,227FTE
- Space Exploration TechnologiesNonscheduled air freight transportation1,984
- John F. Kennedy Space CenterFederal government · National Aeronautics and Space Administration1,981
- Health First Medical GroupMedical doctors' offices1,846
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 434 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 68,703 people in all across the county; Malabar has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Malabar’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 Brevard County and the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL metro.
Malabar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Malabar$535,495
- 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.
- Malabar15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Malabar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malabar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.