South Pasadena, Florida.
Typical home $291,892 (-5.5% in a year), asking rent $2,595 . Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$646 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,888 -5%
- $308,780$291,892 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,236 -6%
- $310,128$291,892 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.
- South Pasadena$1,532
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in South Pasadena, FL fell 5.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in South Pasadena, Pinellas County, Florida
South Pasadena is a city of 5,353 people in Pinellas County. Half its households earn more than $53,075 a year and half less, against $72,646 across Pinellas County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Pinellas County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pinellas County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. South Pasadena is a small city on the Pinellas County side of Tampa Bay, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and renting is more common than across much of the country, though a majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild, with January highs that stay comfortable, and summers are hot, with August highs among the warmest of the year and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in town include HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital, Publix Super Markets and Walmart. Across Pinellas County there are slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and a typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. The Aquatarium, an amusement park, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Salvador Dalí Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, both good for a quiet afternoon indoors. For a day at the shore, Anna Maria Island is a beach a longer drive away.
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- 3,363households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Pinellas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pinellas County had 441,425 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 69° and lows near 55°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 78°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Petersburg Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in South Pasadena
- Publix7,575
- Walmart4,676
- Raymond James & Associates4,600
- All Children's Health Systems3,865
- Morton F Plant Hospital3,363
- Mease Hospital Trustees2,582
- Honeywell International2,200
- St. Anthony's Hospital2,113
From the City of South Pasadena’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Pinellas County Economic Development”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in South Pasadena’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 Pinellas County and the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro.
South Pasadena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Pasadena$291,892
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 South Pasadena listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- South Pasadena27.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- South Pasadena119
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- South Pasadena20
Zip codes with a South Pasadena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Pasadena — 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.