Manattee Road, Florida.
Typical home $280,334 (+0.3% in a year). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$817 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $927 +0%
- $279,407$280,334 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,319 +25%
- $225,015$280,334 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.
- Manattee Road$1,471
- 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 Manattee Road, FL rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manattee Road, Levy County, Florida
The Census does not count Manattee Road on its own, so the figures here are Levy County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,750 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Levy County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Levy County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manattee Road sits in Levy County in north-central Florida, where the pace of life tends to be unhurried. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is less common than across the county's wider region. Winters are milder than in most of the country and snow is rare, while summers are hot and rain falls heavily through the year.
Work. Across Levy County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The number of jobs has eased slightly over the past year, and few people work from home, so most residents travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers a quiet place to spend time outdoors. The Wekiva River, also a short drive away, is a river for time on the water, and the Suwannee River lies a longer drive away.
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- 18,562households
- 46.7median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Levy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Levy County had 9,070 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 44°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Usher Twr weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Levy County
- Levy SchoolsSchool district781FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Seabring Marine Industries CorporateBoats manufacturing309
- Williston Nursing and RehabSkilled nursing facilities144
- Whistling DuckSolar power structure construction128
- Central Florida Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power111
- Alliance DairiesMilk production, dairy cattle105
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,788 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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 moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Levy County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Levy County and the Gainesville, FL metro.
Manattee Road home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manattee Road$280,334
- 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.
- Manattee Road16
Zip codes with a Manattee Road address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manattee Road — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.