High PointFL
A town of 3,548.
Is High Point a good place to live?
High Point gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $181K for a typical one, or 2.4 years of the Tampa metro’s $74K median household income. It grades B− overall, 195th among Florida's 634 graded towns. High Point’s median age is 63.7 years, against 42.4 years in Florida’s towns and 40.5 years across U.S. towns.
What makes High Point stand out
Where High Point beats most towns.
Every workday, about 4,331 people come to High Point for work
Where High Point’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How High Point grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far High Point is from typical.
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Moving to High Point: who provides what
High Point is unincorporated, so Hernando County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in High Point.
High Point trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, draws workers from Spring Hill and beyond and has a longer frost-free season than nearly all U.S. towns.
0% of High Point is conserved land
9.0 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. The trail density in High Point is 1.8 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most working residents commute out of High Point
4,421 jobs are based in High Point, 3.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 20.1 minutes, against 28 across Florida.
Most working residents leave High Point for work: only 7% work in town. High Point’s average trip to work is 20 minutes. Since 2013, High Point has added 1,594 jobs, to 4,421 in 2023.
| High Point | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $49,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 7.9% | 11% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
High Point has mild winters and hot summers
The Brooksville Chin Hill weather station, 11 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 329 days, longer than in 96% of U.S. towns. The Brooksville Chin Hill weather station, 11 miles away, records that about 89 days a year reach 90°, more than in 96% of U.S. towns.
High Point has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 91°, January nights drop to 47° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High Point faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 62% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
High Point is less healthy than 57% of U.S. towns
Against the 5,548 U.S. towns with household incomes like High Point’s, it is healthier than 83%, so its C+ isn’t only a matter of income.
High Point beats the Florida average on 12 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 9.2% of High Point adults binge drink.
| High Point | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 15% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 48% | 37% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 13% | 12% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 85% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | High Point | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.4% | 13.9% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4.9% | 8.6% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 17.2% | 9.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in High Point sells for about $291K
Homes are within reach (A− for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 34 miles. At 2.4 years of the Tampa metro’s $74K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 95% of Florida towns; that ratio is one input to its A− for cost of living.
89% of households own their home in High Point.
| High Point | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 89% | 72% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,091 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about High Point
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of High Point
About 6 of every 100 High Point residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Florida.
About High Point
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
High Point is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Hernando County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,686 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 70 ft
- Area code
- 352
High Point’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with High Point.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Brookridge (C+) comes closest.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Point | #195 | B− | A− | — | B− | C+ |
| North Weeki Wachee | #520 | D | C− | — | B− | C |
| Spring Hill | #454 | C− | C | — | B− | C |
| Brookridge | #237 | C+ | A | — | B− | C+ |
High Point, North Weeki Wachee, Spring Hill and Brookridge report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare High Point with a neighbor →
Questions about High Point
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is High Point, FL a good place to live?
High Point grades B− overall, better than 45% of U.S. towns and #195 of 634 in Florida. It grades C+ for health and B− for schools.
Is High Point, FL expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $181,000, 52% below the Florida typical home. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.