Rainbow ParkFL
A town of 2,056.
Is Rainbow Park a good place to live?
Rainbow Park’s weakest subject grade is a D for walkability. Rainbow Park’s density of trails is 4.5 miles per square mile, above both the Florida town median (0.4) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Rainbow Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Rainbow Park for work
Where Rainbow Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Rainbow Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Rainbow Park is from typical.
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Moving to Rainbow Park: who provides what
Rainbow Park 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Rainbow Park.
Residents of Rainbow Park are less healthy than nine in ten U.S. towns
In Rainbow Park, 18% of adults report frequent physical distress. A fifth of adults smoke cigarettes in the town, against 13% in Florida’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns.
| Rainbow Park | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Rainbow Park | FL |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 20.7% | 12.7% |
| More smokers | 20% | 12.4% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.7% | 7.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Rainbow Park has 0.6 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
For most workers, Rainbow Park is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. Rainbow Park’s typical journey to work is 29 minutes. The top destinations are Ocala (29%), Tampa (2%) and Orlando (2%). Half commute less than 25 miles.
| Rainbow Park | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 5% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $67,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Rainbow Park has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from hurricanes
For Rainbow Park, the FEMA hazard score is 72 of 100. Expected losses in Rainbow Park break down as 37% from hurricanes and 34% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Rainbow Park: four seasons and hot summers
July afternoons reach 92° and January nights drop to 44°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Rainbow Park sell for about $230K
For households in Rainbow Park, the share who are owner-occupiers is 82%. Bidding over the asking price: 25% of homes sold in the town. The rent at the middle of the market in the town is $1,443 a month.
| Rainbow Park | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 82% | 72% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,443 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and 17 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rainbow Park. Close and well known come first.
34 mi Stadium & arenaBen Hill Griffin Stadium
16 mi Ancient siteDevil's Den
33 mi National forestOcala National Forest
19 mi Zoo & aquariumSilver Springs
29 mi State parkPaynes Prairie
33 mi MuseumFlorida Museum of Natural History200K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium: The original uploader was Hughs at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 · Devil's Den: Eric Beach, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ocala National Forest: Sandra Friend, Public domain · Silver Springs: NeilEvans, Public domain · Paynes Prairie: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Florida Museum of Natural History: WillMcC, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Rainbow Park
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Rainbow Park
About 1 of every 100 Rainbow Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Florida.
About Rainbow Park
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
Rainbow Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Marion County, Florida, United States. It is on the northwest side of Florida State Road 40, 14 miles (23 km) west of Ocala, the county seat, and 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Dunnellon. Rainbow Park was first listed as a CDP for the 2020 census, at which time it had a population of 1,672. It is part of the Ocala, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Elevation
- 79 ft
Questions about Rainbow Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rainbow Park, FL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $198,000, 47% below the Florida typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.