What surrounds the property — the 94 parcels within about 390 feet:
Median value of the 67 built neighbours: $261,787, typically built in 1938. This property is 17% above that median.
| Address | Price | Date | $/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 408 Nw 5th Ave | $360,000 | 2026-06 | $231 |
| 616 N Main St | $1,050,000 | 2026-05 | $180 |
| Unassigned Location Re | $19,000 | 2026-04 | — |
| 301 Nw 8th St | $520,000 | 2026-03 | $232 |
| 526 Nw 3rd St | $300,000 | 2026-03 | $266 |
| 626 Nw 3rd St | $104,500 | 2026-03 | $86 |
| 507 Nw 2nd St | $110,000 | 2026-01 | — |
| 407 Nw 8th St | $230,000 | 2026-01 | $166 |
Expect the tax bill to rise by about $477 a year (13% 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. 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 Alachua County county-wide levy for 2025 (15.24 mills), applied to this property’s just value of $305,693. 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.
| Year | Market value | Taxed on | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $71,900 | $17,120 | $54,780 |
| 2017 | $81,800 | $18,000 | $63,800 |
| 2018 | $77,600 | $18,900 | $58,700 |
| 2019 | $76,295 | $19,734 | $56,561 |
| 2020 | $103,240 | $20,763 | $82,477 |
| 2021 | $138,524 | $21,403 | $117,121 |
| 2022 | $156,559 | $22,795 | $133,764 |
| 2023 | $166,523 | $166,523 | — |
| 2024 | $168,386 | $168,386 | — |
| 2025 | $305,693 | $305,693 | — |
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 +325%, while the amount it is taxed on moved +1686%.
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.
24 of the 36 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 — 39 on record since 1851.
| Storm | Strength here | Wind | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eta (2020) | Tropical Storm | 40 kt | 11 mi |
| Irma (2017) | Tropical Storm | 50 kt | 23 mi |
| Andrea (2013) | Tropical Storm | 40 kt | 42 mi |
| Fay (2008) | Tropical Storm | 45 kt | 6 mi |
| Jeanne (2004) | Tropical Storm | 45 kt | 33 mi |
| Unnamed (1949) | Cat 1 | 65 kt | 48 mi |
| Unnamed (1945) | Cat 1 | 65 kt | 50 mi |
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.
4 crossings within 2 miles, 4 of them at track level. Every one of them is 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.
The property is at the centre. Petals show how often the wind comes from each direction; red marks the prevailing one.
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. 1 of these site sits in the prevailing NE wind.
| Site | Type | Distance | Wind from there |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Of Florida Water Reclamation Facility | Wastewater treatment | 1.7 mi SW | 17% of the year |
| Main Street Water Reclamation Facility | Wastewater treatment | 1.5 mi S | 7% of the year |
| Alachua County Board Of County Comm's | Landfill or waste transfer | 1.9 mi NW | 10% of the year |
| Waste Management Facility Bldg 831 | Landfill or waste transfer | 2.8 mi SW | 17% of the year |
| Gru Main Street Water Reclamation Pipe Improvement | Wastewater treatment | 1.5 mi S | 7% of the year |
| Brittany Estates Mhp Wwtf | Wastewater treatment | 4.2 mi NE | 19% of the year |
| Perma-fix Of Florida INC. | Landfill or waste transfer | 4.4 mi N | 10% of the year |
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.
Dave Barbers Paint & Body
0.1 mi · 310 Nw 6th St, Gainesville holds EPA permits for hazardous wasteNo Violation Identified · last inspected 02/25/2014
Rips 1 Hour Cleaners #12
0.2 mi · 316 N Main St, Gainesville holds EPA permits for hazardous wasteNo Violation Identified · last inspected 05/15/2008
Williams-colonial Cemetary
0.2 mi · 404 N Main St, Gainesville holds EPA permits for air emissionsNo Violation Identified · no inspection on record
Rip Cleaners
0.2 mi · 316 N Main St, Gainesville holds EPA permits for air emissionsNo Violation Identified · no inspection on record
Aamac Corporation
0.3 mi · 508 Nw 8th Ave, Gainesville holds EPA permits for hazardous wasteNo Violation Identified · last inspected 10/18/2007
Sunoco Service Station #09959677
0.3 mi · 528 Nw 8th Ave, Gainesville holds EPA permits for hazardous wasteNo Violation Identified · no inspection on record
Bellsouth Gsvlflma 33447
0.3 mi · 400 Sw 2nd Ave, Gainesville holds EPA permits for hazardous wasteNo Violation Identified · no inspection on record
Alachua County Public Defender Building
0.4 mi · 151 Sw 2nd Ave, Gainesville holds EPA permits for water dischargeNo Violation Identified · last inspected 02/04/2016
| Offence | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Florida | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple assault | 1,463 | 1,339 | 1,361 | 905.1 | 731.4 | 770.4 |
| Aggravated assault | 758 | 764 | 708 | 470.8 | 185.0 | 243.1 |
| Rape | 133 | 113 | 107 | 71.2 | 21.7 | 31.6 |
| Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
| All other larceny | 1,408 | 1,365 | 1,089 | 724.2 | 359.4 | 450.7 |
| Drug or narcotic violations | 556 | 560 | 622 | 413.6 | 301.1 | 374.0 |
| Vandalism | 763 | 687 | 563 | 374.4 | 214.9 | 466.4 |
| Theft from a motor vehicle | 922 | 631 | 535 | 355.8 | 172.3 | 228.0 |
| Burglary | 436 | 475 | 331 | 220.1 | 120.2 | 193.2 |
| Robbery | 175 | 198 | 124 | 82.5 | 33.6 | 49.4 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 24 | 155 | 16 | 10.6 | 61.9 | 200.0 |
| Arson | 10 | 13 | 16 | 10.6 | 3.2 | 10.0 |
Offences per 100,000 residents, so the figures can be set against the state and national rates. Counts are what Gainesville Police Department reported to the FBI — the police department for this city.
Where an offence was recorded as taking place. It is worth reading alongside the counts: a burglary figure made up mostly of homes means something different to one made up of building sites and storage units.
Santa Fe College Downtown Campus
0.1 miLoblolly Learning Community
0.4 miA Quinn Jones Center
0.5 miWarrington College of Business
0.8 miBPL Plasma
0.2 miAyers Medical Plaza
0.4 miDavis Integrative Medicine
0.5 miBread and Roses Women's Health Center
0.7 miWise's Pharmacy
0.5 miCVS Pharmacy
0.9 miPleasant Park
0.1 miRoper Park
0.4 miDreamer's Garden
0.4 miOakview Park
0.4 miSplash Pad
0.9 miPleasant Street Pizza
0 miCaribbean Queen
0.1 miPleasant Street Pizza Pub
0.1 miSweetberries
0.2 miChun Ching Market
0.3 miPop-a-Top
0.3 miChevron
0.5 miPublix
0.6 miSunoco
0.3 miBank of America ATM (Drive-thru)
0.5 miRefresh
0.5 miBank of America
0.5 miOwnership, valuation and land-use figures come from the Florida Department of Revenue tax roll and the county property appraiser's cadastre. Assessed (just) value is set for taxation and is not an appraisal or a market price. Chapter 119 of the Florida Statutes exempts certain owners from disclosure, so a small number of records show no owner name.
These figures describe Census Tract 2.01; Alachua County; Florida — the statistical neighborhood the property sits in, typically a few thousand residents across a handful of blocks, not the whole city. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey five-year estimates.
Hazard frequency is measured over 31 years of NOAA storm records and takes into account how long ago the last event was. The nearest modelled watercourse peaked at 120 cubic feet per second on 2024-08-06 over the last five years.
All counts are for the 2025 calendar year at this location, from the
ERA5 reanalysis archive.
“Air conditioning needed” counts days reaching 85 °F, “heating
needed” nights dropping to 45 °F or below, a windy day is one with a gust
above 25 mph, and a solar day one receiving at least 3 kWh/m² of radiation.
The prevailing wind direction matters for noise and odour: sources upwind of the
property affect it far more often than those downwind.
Being on this register is routine, not a warning: any business that stores solvents, discharges stormwater or handles refrigerants is listed, which is why a supermarket or a pharmacy appears here. What matters is the compliance line — whether the EPA has found a violation, and how recently the site was inspected.
Florida agencies no longer publish address-level incident data, so the figures are agency-level totals from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. To make the local numbers comparable with the statewide rate, offense counts are also expressed per 100,000 residents of the area the agency covers.
Only qualified sales are shown — arm's-length market transactions per the Florida Department of Revenue's qualification codes. Nominal transfers, such as a deed between family members, are excluded because they do not reflect market value.