Newberry, Florida.
Typical home $327,354 (-2.0% in a year), asking rent $2,191 (+2.5%). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$844 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,553 -2%
- $333,907$327,354 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,908 +11%
- $294,445$327,354 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.
- Newberry$1,718
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Newberry, FL fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Newberry, FL rose 2.5% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Newberry runs $139/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $403 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,331 a month against $2,191 rent: a $1,718 mortgage payment, plus $262 property tax and $350 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Newberry
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$2,331
- Renting$2,191
- Mortgage only$1,718
Property tax · $262/mo 0.96% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Alachua County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $350/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 Newberry, Alachua County, Florida
Newberry is a city of 7,342 people in Alachua County. Half its households earn more than $89,552 a year and half less, against $61,949 across Alachua County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Newberry is a small city in Alachua County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents are on the younger side, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs that stay comfortable, while summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops and restaurants. Some of the largest workplaces in Newberry are Publix Super Markets, Watson Construction Company, and Inspired Energy, which makes rechargeable batteries. The typical commute is fairly long, and a number of people work from home.
Things to do. Dudley Farm Historic State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Paynes Prairie is a protected area for open country and wildlife, and the Florida Museum of Natural History is a museum, each a longer drive away.
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- 2,867households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 14%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 92° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gainesville Wnw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Newberry
- School Board of Alachua County264
- Publix Super Markets #2012188
- Argos / Quikrete124
- City of Newberry103
- Inspired Energy102
- Bounds Heating and Air90
- Southern Fuelwood75
- Bravo Supermarkets45
From the City of Newberry’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Individual Employers, Council for Economic Opportunity, City of Newberry Planning Department”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Newberry’s census tracts, 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.
Newberry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newberry$327,354
- 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 3 Newberry listings, and the typical home goes pending in 51 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Newberry30.65%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Newberry51
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newberry107
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newberry24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Newberry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newberry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.