Oakland, Florida.
Typical home $570,276 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $2,105 . Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,647 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,090 +2%
- $558,187$570,276 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,699 +27%
- $448,578$570,276 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.
- Oakland$2,993
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Oakland, FL rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakland, Orange County, Florida
Oakland is a town of 3,516 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $152,195 a year and half less, against $79,719 across Orange County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakland is a small town in Orange County where households earn well above what is typical across the county, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes here cost a good deal more than the typical home elsewhere in the area, and rents run high too. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month, while summers are hot, and rain and the occasional melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are SeaWorld, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts US, and AdventHealth Orlando. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home, more than in many places.
Things to do. The Magic Kingdom, an amusement park, is a short drive away, and so is The Haunted Mansion, a tourist attraction. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to the rest of Walt Disney World Resort, including Disney's Animal Kingdom, which is a zoo, and to SeaWorld Orlando, an aquarium. Together they make the town a convenient base for visitors and for family days out.
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- 1,298households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 30%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 954,330 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 49°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orlando West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Orange County
- Walt Disney World Co.80,000
- Advent Health/Florida Hospital40,000
- Universal Orlando Resort32,084
- Orlando Health28,806
- Orange County Public Schools24,685
- Lockheed Martin Corp.14,000
- University of Central Florida13,645
- Orange County Government12,268
From Orange County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Source: Orlando Business Journal: 2025 Book of Lists, Central Florida”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of OaklandRelatively moderate
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of OaklandRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of OaklandRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakland’s census tracts, 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 Orange County and the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
Oakland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakland$570,276
- 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 Oakland listings — 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.
- Oakland26.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oakland29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oakland8
Zip codes with a Oakland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.