Bradenton, Florida.
Typical home $351,538 (-2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,768 (-1.1%). North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$965 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,195 -2%
- $359,733$351,538 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,847 +15%
- $305,691$351,538 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.
- Bradenton$1,845
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Bradenton, FL fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Bradenton, FL fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Bradenton runs $682/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,094 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,450 a month against $1,768 rent: a $1,845 mortgage payment, plus $228 property tax and $376 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Bradenton
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$2,450
- Renting$1,768
- Mortgage only$1,845
Property tax · $228/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Manatee County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $376/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 Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida
Bradenton is a city of 55,698 people in Manatee County. Half its households earn more than $60,822 a year and half less, against $78,457 across Manatee County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Bradenton was 5.2% in August 2026, and Manatee County had 1.5% 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 24 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. Bradenton is a city on the Gulf Coast of Florida, in Manatee County. Its residents are older than in most American places, and incomes run below the county's, with a larger share of households living in poverty than many would expect. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, so renting is common. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Bradenton are Manatee Schools, Manatee Memorial Hospital and Tropicana Manufacturing Company. Unemployment has edged up over the past year, though across Manatee County there are slightly more jobs than there were a year earlier. A typical commute is moderate, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature sits in or beside town, as does McKechnie Field, a baseball stadium. A short drive away are Anna Maria Island, a beach, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Siesta Key, another beach, is a longer drive.
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- 24,356households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Manatee County had 146,007 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 72° and lows near 52°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bradenton Ese weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Bradenton
- Manatee County School Board5,804
- Manatee Healthcare System (4)2,804
- Publix2,600
- Amazon2,500
- Manatee County Government2,493
- Beall's Inc.2,300
- Blake Medical Center1,742
- Manatee County Sheriff's Department1,275
From the City of Bradenton’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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bradenton’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 Manatee County and the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL metro.
Bradenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bradenton$351,538
- 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 4 Bradenton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 50 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Bradenton26.07%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bradenton50
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bradenton1,794
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bradenton351
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bradenton$363,378
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bradenton96.09%
Zip codes with a Bradenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bradenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bradenton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34208 | Bradenton | 44,004 | $1,826 | $320,189 |
| 34203 | Bradenton | 40,618 | $2,340 | $369,278 |
| 34207 | Bradenton | 34,081 | $1,508 | $205,234 |
| 34209 | Bradenton | 33,224 | $2,195 | $388,782 |
| 34205 | Bradenton | 31,946 | $1,606 | $263,156 |
| 34212 | Bradenton | 25,536 | $1,960 | $520,703 |
| 34210 | Bradenton | 17,682 | $1,663 | $272,792 |
| 34201 | Bradenton | 3,733 | — | $616,481 |