Rockledge, Florida.
Typical home $397,116 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,952 (+2.3%). Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,106 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,127 -0%
- $398,243$397,116 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,372 +17%
- $338,744$397,116 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.
- Rockledge$2,084
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Rockledge, FL fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rockledge, FL rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rockledge runs $783/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,096 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,735 a month against $1,952 rent: a $2,084 mortgage payment, plus $225 property tax and $425 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rockledge
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$2,735
- Renting$1,952
- Mortgage only$2,084
Property tax · $225/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brevard County, FL
Insurance & upkeep · $425/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 Rockledge, Brevard County, Florida
Rockledge is a city of 27,678 people in Brevard County. Half its households earn more than $84,255 a year and half less, against $78,476 across Brevard County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Rockledge was 4.0% in August 2026, and Brevard County had 0.6% 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. Rockledge is a city in Brevard County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are older than in much of the country, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, as well as in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Rockledge are Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Field Home Health and Publix Super Markets. Many people have a typical commute and some work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, Barnett Lake and the Aladdin Theater are in or beside town. A short drive away are Brevard Zoo and Lake Poinsett. For a longer outing, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 12,275households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brevard County had 243,568 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 72° and lows near 50°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 55 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Melbourne Weather Office weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Rockledge
- Brevard Public Schools
- Health First Medical Group LLC
- L3Harris Technologies Inc
- Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Wal-Mart Associates Inc
- Publix Super Markets Inc
- Blue Origin Personnel LLC
- United States Space Force (Space Launch Delta 45)
From the City of Rockledge’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Department of Economic Opportunity, Data 2025Q1 (most recent available) Bureau of Labor Statistics”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts, so they are in its order.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockledge’s census tracts, 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 Brevard County and the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL metro.
Rockledge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockledge$397,116
- 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 Rockledge listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — 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.
- Rockledge30.71%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rockledge34
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockledge290
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rockledge76
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rockledge$376,995
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Rockledge97.35%
Zip codes with a Rockledge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockledge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.