Micanopy, Florida.
Typical home $328,507 (+0.3% in a year). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$945 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $888 +0%
- $327,620$328,507 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,105 +22%
- $269,402$328,507 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.
- Micanopy$1,724
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Micanopy, FL rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Micanopy, Alachua County, Florida
Micanopy is a town of 648 people in Alachua County. Half its households earn more than $74,038 a year and half less, against $61,949 across Alachua County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Micanopy is a very small town in Alachua County, and it is one of the older settlements in Florida. Residents tend to be older than in most places, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Typical home values are well above what many Floridians would expect to pay, and the commute to work is a fairly short one. Winters are mild, with chilly mornings in January and almost no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, the building trades and manufacturing. Many of the larger jobs across Alachua County are close at hand, among them UF Health Shands, Alachua Schools and Santa Fe College. A small share of people work from home, and unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Micanopy Historical Society Museum is in town, and Lake Wauburg is in or beside town too, a lake for time outdoors. A short drive away, Paynes Prairie is a protected area of open wetland and grassland. For a longer outing, the Florida Museum of Natural History is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 336households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents 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, 13 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 across the county; Micanopy has none of its own. 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
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of MicanopyRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Micanopy’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Alachua County and the Gainesville, FL metro.
Micanopy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Micanopy$328,507
- 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.
- Micanopy17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Micanopy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Micanopy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Micanopy
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32667 | Micanopy | 3,944 | — | $343,958 |
| 32664 | McIntosh | 367 | — | $303,946 |