Wewahitchka, Florida.
Typical home $202,632 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$592 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,099 +4%
- $195,534$202,632 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,819 +24%
- $163,813$202,632 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.
- Wewahitchka$1,064
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Wewahitchka, FL rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wewahitchka, Gulf County, Florida
Wewahitchka is a city of 2,074 people in Gulf County. Unemployment in Gulf County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gulf County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wewahitchka is a small city in Gulf County, in the Florida Panhandle, with a younger population than across much of the country. Not many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values are modest, and winters are mild, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year. Summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and professional and business services. Across Gulf County, some of the largest workplaces are Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Gulf Schools and Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Dead Lakes Park is a protected area in or beside town, and the Chipola River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, St. Joseph Peninsula State Park is another protected area a longer drive away, and Constitution Convention Museum State Park is also a longer drive away.
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- 813households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Gulf County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gulf County had 4,597 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wewahitchka weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gulf County
- Eastern Shipbuilding GroupShipyard462
- Gulf SchoolsSchool district261FTE
- Gulf Coast Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power110
- Shores Nursing and RehabHomes for the elderly with nursing care91
- Ascension Sacred Heart GulfGeneral hospital74FTE
- B.L. Harbert InternationalAirport building construction27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 793 people in all across the county; Wewahitchka has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wewahitchka’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 Gulf County.
Wewahitchka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wewahitchka$202,632
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wewahitchka listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Wewahitchka26.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wewahitchka43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wewahitchka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wewahitchka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wewahitchka
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32465 | Wewahitchka | 8,069 | — | $201,862 |
| 32449 | Wewahitchka | 769 | — | $157,201 |