A typical Safety Harbor home is worth about $502,000
Up 1.3% in a year, 34% above the Florida typical home. Homes typically sell in 49 days, below asking.
What kind of housing town is Safety Harbor?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 4.7 years of income
Less than across Florida (5 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $69K short of a typical Safety Harbor home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $2,250 a month here, $640 less than owning.
How Safety Harbor ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Safety Harbor’s typical property tax (0.62% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 21.5% in five years
About the same pace as Florida (20.3%).
Show as a table
| January | Safety Harbor | Florida |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $268,000 | $209,000 |
| 2018 | $289,000 | $226,000 |
| 2019 | $307,000 | $242,000 |
| 2020 | $326,000 | $253,000 |
| 2021 | $359,000 | $276,000 |
| 2022 | $447,000 | $340,000 |
| 2023 | $496,000 | $392,000 |
| 2024 | $525,000 | $402,000 |
| 2025 | $514,000 | $397,000 |
| 2026 | $493,000 | $377,000 |
| August 2026 | $502,000 | $376,000 |
A typical Safety Harbor home worth $259K in September 2016 is worth about $502K today.
How Safety Harbor ranks on rising home prices →
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A seller's market
Supply is tight — about 3.9 months of homes for sale at the current pace. Buyers should expect competition on well-priced homes.
Under ~4 months of supply favors sellers; over ~6 favors buyers.
Redfin Data Center, all residential sales, May 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $2,250
Renters already here pay a median of $1,743, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2022
No permits for new homes were issued in Safety Harbor in 2022. The last year with any was 2021 (3 new homes).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Safety Harbor gained 188 residents while 250 new homes were permitted: about 0.8 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Florida: 2.8 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2020 | 10 | 10 | 0 | $2.4 million |
| 2019 | 16 | 16 | 0 | $4 million |
| 2018 | 20 | 20 | 0 | $8.1 million |
| 2017 | 69 | 24 | 45 | $17.7 million |
| 2016 | 31 | 31 | 0 | $7.9 million |
| 2015 | 25 | 25 | 0 | $5.9 million |
| 2014 | 25 | 25 | 0 | $6.8 million |
| 2013 | 18 | 11 | 7 | $3.1 million |
| 2012 | 34 | 34 | 0 | $6.4 million |
| 2011 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2010 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $745,000 |
| 2009 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $465,000 |
| 2007 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| 2006 | 22 | 22 | 0 | $3.1 million |
| 2005 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| 2004 | 31 | 27 | 4 | $4.9 million |
| 2003 | 100 | 88 | 12 | $15.1 million |
| 2002 | 47 | 47 | 0 | $8 million |
| 2001 | 32 | 32 | 0 | $5.9 million |
| 2000 | 67 | 64 | 3 | $12.7 million |
Safety Harbor's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2022, so the 2022 figures are Census estimates.
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
84% of Safety Harbor households own their home
Half of Safety Harbor’s homes were built before 1984.
Florida: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Safety Harbor vs. its neighbors
The towns that share a border with Safety Harbor. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Harbor | $502K | +1.3% | $2,250 | — | $106,830 |
| Clearwater | $343K | −0.6% | $2,060 | 55 | $66,381 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
On the market in Safety Harbor
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Safety Harbor buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.