Placida, Florida.
Typical home $479,210 (-1.7% in a year). Punta Gorda, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,185 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,381 -2%
- $487,591$479,210 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,280 +2%
- $470,930$479,210 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.
- Placida$2,515
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Placida, FL fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Placida, Charlotte County, Florida
The Census does not count Placida on its own, so the figures here are Charlotte County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,952 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Charlotte County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Charlotte County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Placida is a small community on the Gulf coast of Charlotte County, Florida, where many residents are well past middle age and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and snow is rare or absent, while summers are very hot and a good deal of rain falls through the year. Residents share the county's warm, wet climate and its slow-paced, owner-occupied neighborhoods.
Work. Across Barnstable County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and across Charlotte County the number of jobs grew over the past year. Unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, professional and business services, or restaurants, hotels and entertainment. A notable share of residents work from home, and a typical commute is a matter of a short drive for many.
Things to do. The Myakka River is a river a short drive away, and Don Pedro Island State Park is a protected area a short drive away, offering quiet natural settings. The Wildflower Preserve is a protected area in or beside town, which makes it an easy outing for anyone who wants a walk close to home.
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- 90,542households
- 59.9median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Charlotte County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Charlotte County had 57,200 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 77° and lows near 52°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 75°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Punta Gorda Ese weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Charlotte County
- Charlotte SchoolsSchool district2,666FTE
- HCA FL Fawcett HospitalGeneral hospital745FTE
- Sunseeker ResortHotels723
- Bayfront Health Port CharlotteGeneral hospital668FTE
- Allegiant AIRScheduled air passenger transportation557
- Cheney Brothers Punta Gorda519
- CCRCContinuing care retirement communities438
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters406
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 87 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,723 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Charlotte County, 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 Charlotte County and the Punta Gorda, FL metro.
Placida home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Placida$479,210
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Placida 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.
- Placida13.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Placida124
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Placida14
Zip codes with a Placida address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Placida — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.