Earleton, Florida.
Typical home $380,497 (+0.7% in a year). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,065 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,636 +1%
- $377,861$380,497 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,003 +20%
- $316,494$380,497 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.
- Earleton$1,997
- 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 Earleton, FL rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Earleton, Alachua County, Florida
The Census does not count Earleton on its own, so the figures here are Alachua County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,949 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 54% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Alachua County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alachua County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Earleton is a small place in Alachua County, Florida, where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's residents are on the younger side compared with much of the country. Winters are mild and bring little or no snow, while summers are hot, with the warmest weather in the middle of the year. The area gets much more rain over a year than many parts of the country, so wet days are a regular part of life.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services, with shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number of people. Across the county, a large share of adults hold a college degree, and a modest share of workers work from home. Unemployment has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Santa Fe Lake is in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing for a walk or a day by the water. Newnans Lake and Lake Barco are a short drive away, and the Florida Museum of Natural History is a longer drive away, offering a museum visit for a rainy afternoon.
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- 116,786households
- 32.3median age
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Alachua County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alachua County had 140,869 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 67° and lows near 43°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gainesville Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alachua County
- UF Health ShandsGeneral hospital8,042FTE
- Alachua SchoolsSchool district3,742FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs3,456
- HCA Florida North Florida HospGeneral hospital1,782FTE
- Santa Fe CollegeUniversity or college1,309
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,149
- AlachuaGeneral warehousing and storage703
- AxogenBlood banks619
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 179 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,417 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alachua County, 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 Alachua County and the Gainesville, FL metro.
Earleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Earleton$380,497
- 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.
Zip codes with a Earleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Earleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.