Yalaha, Florida.
Typical home $334,213 (-3.1% in a year). Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$902 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,868 -3%
- $345,081$334,213 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,731 +18%
- $282,482$334,213 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.
- Yalaha$1,754
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Yalaha, FL fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Yalaha, Lake County, Florida
Yalaha, in Lake County, had 1,505 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $121,027 a year and half less, against $73,161 across Lake County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lake County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lake County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yalaha is a small community in Lake County, Florida, with a population that is modest and settled. Households here earn well above the county's typical income, and no one in town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and days that stay comfortably warm, while summers run hot, with August the warmest. Rain is fairly steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Lake County, the largest workplaces include Lake Schools, Adventhealth Waterman and Orlando Health South Lake Hospital. The commute is on the long side, and the county's unemployment rate has risen a little over the past year even as the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Lake Harris is in or beside town, so time on the water is close at hand. A longer drive away is Lake Apopka, another large lake. Farther still are the theme parks to the south, with Magic Kingdom the best known, for days out that take planning.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 118,622 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 70° and lows near 49°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 75°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leesburg Municipal Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Lake County
- Lake County Public Schools5,669
- Advent Health Waterman (2)3,300
- Publix Supermarkets3,049
- Lake County Government2,298
- Walmart Supercenter2,115
- Orlando Health South Lake Hospital (3)1,897
- UF Health Leesburg Hospital (1)1,828
- Central Florida Health Alliance1,342
From Lake County’s annual financial report for 2025, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Bureau of Labor Statistics Lake County Adopted Budget Lake County Agency for Economic Growth”), as Florida’s Auditor General publishes it: the report. Employees as the report counts them.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Yalaha’s census tracts, 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 Lake County and the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro.
Yalaha home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yalaha$334,213
- 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.
- Yalaha14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Yalaha address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yalaha — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.