450 N Oak Ave Bartow, FL 33830

Parcel ID

253005367500000031

Land use

Multi-family (<10 units) 2 residential units

Homestead exemption

Claimed $108,108 of just value protected — the owner lives here

Last recorded transfer

$100 · 2025/02 nominal consideration — a transfer, not a market sale

What surrounds the property — the 29 parcels within about 390 feet:

Single family

19

Vacant residential

6

Multi-family (<10 units)

3

Church

1

Median value of the 23 built neighbours: $257,147, typically built in 1920. This property is 16% below that median.

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Every deed the county recorded for this parcel. Not all of them are sales: a property put into a trust, passed between family members or divided in a divorce is still recorded, usually for a nominal sum, and the state marks those as unqualified. Those carry no price here, because the figure on the deed is not what the property was worth. Source: Florida Department of Revenue sale data files.

Expect the tax bill to rise by about $1,145 a year (118% more) once you buy.

Florida caps how fast the assessed value of a homesteaded property can rise — the Save Our Homes limit. The longer someone has owned a home, the further their taxable value has fallen behind what the property is actually worth. The current owner claims that exemption here. That protection does not transfer with the sale. On the January 1 after you buy, the assessed value resets to market value, and your bill is calculated from there. This is why the tax history of a property is a poor guide to what a buyer will pay.

Estimate based on the Polk County county-wide levy for 2025 (11.92 mills), applied to this property’s just value of $216,216. If the property sits inside a city, a municipal levy is charged on top of this. Special assessments and non-ad-valorem charges are not included. Confirm with the county property appraiser before you rely on it.

Just value is what the county says the property is worth; the taxable value is what the current owner’s bill is actually worked out from. Source: Florida Department of Revenue assessment roll.

Between 2016 and 2025 the county’s valuation of this property moved +251%, while the amount it is taxed on moved +220%. The owner is now taxed on $115,753 of a $216,216 property — $100,463 less, or 46% of its value. That protection is the seller’s, not the property’s, and it ends with the sale.

Being close to a school is not the same as being assigned to it. Florida districts draw attendance boundaries, and the school a child attends follows that boundary rather than the shortest drive. Check the boundary with the district before you count on a particular school.

9 of the 17 schools within 5 miles carry a state grade. Grades are issued annually by the Florida Department of Education on an A to F scale; charter and virtual schools are included where graded, and newly opened schools may have none yet.

Named storms that passed within 50 miles — 42 on record since 1851.

2 flood insurance claims were paid in this census tract (a few thousand residents around the address) since 1995, $1,392 in total. The biggest single event was Hurricane Frances (2004) with 1 claims and $0 paid. The whole ZIP code 33830 has 46 on record.

A paid claim means water got into an insured building here. Ask the seller for the property's own claim history (the NFIP keeps it per address), and price the flood insurance before you make an offer; in a tract with this record, lenders will require it in the mapped zones and it is worth having outside them too.

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP redacted claims, updated monthly. Only insured properties file claims, so zero means no paid claims, not no flooding; addresses are withheld, the census tract is the finest level published.

Claims by year

The nearest report is 0.1 miles away, from 1998. 1 of the 20 reports within a mile recorded property damage. The most recent one nearby is from 2011.

Ask the seller for a sinkhole disclosure and any repair records, and check what the insurer will cover: in Florida, standard policies include catastrophic ground cover collapse, while broader sinkhole coverage is an optional add-on.

Source: Florida Geological Survey subsidence incident reports, collected since 1909 from residents, dispatchers and agencies. Most are not verified by a geologist; "verified" marks the ones that were. A report is not proof of a sinkhole, and no report is not proof there is none.

Nearest reports

* located to the parcel or survey section only, so the distance is approximate.

Federal rules require the horn, not the railroad. A train must sound its horn as it approaches every public level crossing — four blasts, starting about a quarter mile out, at any hour of the night. The only exception is a quiet zone, which a local authority has to apply for and pay to equip. That is why a house beside the tracks can be silent while one further away is not.

21 crossings within 2 miles, 18 of them at track level. 2 of them are marked by a crossbuck alone — the X-shaped sign, with no lights, bells or gates. Train counts are what the railroad last reported to the Federal Railroad Administration and can change; freight timings in particular are not fixed.

Distance alone does not tell you whether you will smell something. A wastewater plant two miles away is of no consequence if the wind never blows from it, and matters a great deal if it sits in the prevailing direction.

Sites within 5 miles that the EPA classes as wastewater treatment, waste handling, meat processing or livestock. Wind frequencies come from the past year of daily dominant wind direction at this location. Whether anything is actually noticeable depends on the site, the day and the weather — this shows where to ask, not what you will smell.

Offences per 100,000 residents, so the figures can be set against the state and national rates. Counts are what Bartow Police Department reported to the FBI — the police department for this city. This force still files under the older summary system, which reports two totals rather than a breakdown by offence, so burglary cannot be separated from theft here.