Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ocklawaha’s best subject grade is a B for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for health. Lake Weir Yacht Club and Thomas R. Ayer House is on the National Register of Historic Places. Ocklawaha has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Ocklawaha beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Alfred Ayer House| Widest gap | Ocklawaha | FL |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 14% | 7.2% |
Where Ocklawaha’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Ocklawaha is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 13 old photos and papers going back to 1837 and 3 maps from 1970 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ocklawaha is unincorporated, so Marion 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Ocklawaha.
In Ocklawaha, 14% of adults binge drink. Nearly a third of adults get no exercise outside work locally, where Florida’s towns sit at 25% and U.S. towns at 25%. Also worth knowing: only 5 of the 637 Florida towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Ocklawaha. Two figures for adults locally: 20% report frequent physical distress, 30% say their health is fair or poor.
| Ocklawaha | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 15% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 20% | 19% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Ocklawaha | FL |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 14% | 7.2% |
| More smokers | 22.8% | 12.4% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 21.7% | 12.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median rent in Ocklawaha is $1,542 a month. Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home lost 1.1% of its value. Three quarters of households live in a home they own in the town, close to both Florida’s towns (72%) and U.S. towns (73%).
| Ocklawaha | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,542 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 72% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Just 1% of Ocklawaha’s working residents have a job in town. 13% of Ocklawaha residents live below the poverty line. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in the town rose by 40, to 151. For Ocklawaha, the average commute is 34 minutes.
| Ocklawaha | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $38,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 5% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 11% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Ocklawaha’s peak summer temperature is 92°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The natural-hazard score from FEMA for Ocklawaha comes to 64 of 100. Expected losses in Ocklawaha break down as 39% from hurricanes and 26% from inland flooding. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid in 6 declared disasters, most recently in 2024.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Ocklawaha’s density of trails comes in at 0.1 miles per square mile. Trails total 0.2 miles in 1 park or preserve. The biggest park or preserve is Ocklawaha Prairie Restoration Area, at 26 acres.
| Ocklawaha | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.8% | 3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ocklawaha Prairie Restoration Area | 0.1 mi | 26 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ocklawaha. Close and well known come first.
11 mi National forestOcala National Forest
30 mi MountainSugarloaf Mountain
14 mi Zoo & aquariumSilver Springs
39 mi Ancient siteDevil's Den
37 mi State parkBlue Spring State Park
35 mi LookoutFlorida Citrus TowerOcala National Forest: Sandra Friend, Public domain · Sugarloaf Mountain: Lithium6ion at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Silver Springs: NeilEvans, Public domain · Devil's Den: Eric Beach, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blue Spring State Park: Rizka, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Florida Citrus Tower: The shyguy, CC BY-SA 4.0
None within 15 miles of Ocklawaha; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Ocklawaha residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Florida.
Census-designated place
Ocklawaha (also spelled Oklawaha) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Marion County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,508. The community is part of the Ocala Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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One town shares a border with Ocklawaha.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocklawaha | — | — | B | — | D | D− |
| Silver Springs Shores East | — | — | C | — | D | D |
Ocklawaha and Silver Springs Shores East have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Ocklawaha and Silver Springs Shores East report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Ocklawaha with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 3.9 years of the area's median household income ($61,010 across the Ocala, 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 B.
