Florida Average Rent & Rental Yield
Screen Florida rental return signals with average asking rent (median), gross rental yield, home value, and transaction activity. Use this page as a market-level starting point before underwriting individual properties, operators, or borrower prospects.
Average rent in Florida
The median asking rent in Florida is $2,400 as of July 2026, based on active rental listings statewide. We report the median — the midpoint of asking rents — because it tracks the typical listing more reliably than a simple average, which luxury and outlier listings can skew.
Against an average home value of $344,280, that rent level prices Florida at a 8.28% gross rental yield. Rent and yield vary widely by metro — use the metro breakdown below to compare individual Florida markets.
Rental yield snapshot for Florida
Gross rental yield is a first-pass market screen. It does not include taxes, insurance, repairs, vacancies, financing, or property-level operating differences. Pair it with observed transaction activity before choosing where to prospect.
Metro market heatmap
Featured metros combine the largest Florida markets by transaction activity with the highest gross-yield markets, so both demand centers and return outliers stay visible in one screen.
Florida metro market heatmap
Each metro tile shows rent, value, transaction context, and a direct path into the Rental Insights workflow.
All Florida rental markets
Average rent and rental yield reports for every covered Florida metro (28 markets).
- Arcadia, FL9.82% yield
- Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL8.79% yield
- Clewiston, FL8.91% yield
- Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL7.98% yield
- Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL8.42% yield
- Gainesville, FL8.96% yield
- Homosassa Springs, FL9.11% yield
- Jacksonville, FL8.17% yield
- Key West-Key Largo, FL6.30% yield
- Lake City, FL10.15% yield
- Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL8.39% yield
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL7.95% yield
- Naples-Marco Island, FL8.40% yield
- North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL8.56% yield
- Ocala, FL8.85% yield
- Okeechobee, FL9.40% yield
- Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL7.68% yield
- Palatka, FL11.89% yield
- Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL8.39% yield
- Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL8.66% yield
- Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL8.33% yield
- Port St. Lucie, FL8.67% yield
- Punta Gorda, FL9.28% yield
- Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL8.99% yield
- Sebring, FL9.58% yield
- Tallahassee, FL9.42% yield
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL8.44% yield
- Wildwood-The Villages, FL9.24% yield
Turn Florida rental signals into a target list
Use yield context to prioritize a market, then move into rental listings, active investors, borrower prospects, or a custom data pull for your team.