Venus, Florida.
Typical home $356,449 (+5.7% in a year). Sebring-Avon Park, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,188 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,090 +6%
- $337,359$356,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,159 +40%
- $255,290$356,449 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.
- Venus$1,871
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Venus, FL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Venus, Highlands County, Florida
The Census does not count Venus on its own, so the figures here are Highlands County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,897 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Highlands County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Highlands 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Venus is a town in Highlands County in central Florida, where the population is older than across the country as a whole. Winters are cool and summers are hot and wet, with more rain than most of the country gets. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes sit below the national typical level, with more residents living in poverty than the national average.
Work. Across Highlands County, most people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in the building trades. Jobs have dipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment has risen since last year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Sebring International Raceway is a race track a longer drive away, and Highlands Hammock State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Lake Placid, a lake, is a longer drive away too.
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- 46,879households
- 54.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Highlands County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Highlands County had 28,704 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 74° and lows near 49°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sebring Sse weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Highlands County
- Highlands County School Board1,879
- Advent Health (fka Florida Hospital)1,798
- Wal-Mart797
- Publix533
- South Florida State College450
- HCA Healthcare (fka Highlands Regional Medical Center)416
- Highlands County Board of County Commissioners403
- Avon Park Correctional Institute380
From Highlands County’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Top Employee information was provided by the Highlands County Economic Development Commission”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Highlands County, 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 Highlands County and the Sebring-Avon Park, FL metro.
Venus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Venus$356,449
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Venus7
Zip codes with a Venus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Venus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.