Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL · Polk County, FL · 2,015 properties with county records
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Lake Hamilton 33851 is in Polk County, FL, part of the Lakeland Metro. The typical home value in Lake Hamilton 33851 is $308,500 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), down 1.6% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 61 days, and 0% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Aug 31, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 33851 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Polk County's 35 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $285,300, so 33851 sits 8% above the county middle. Lotvox holds county assessor records for 2,015 properties in 33851.
Headline value data through August 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 33851 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Aug 31, 2026, 33851 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 61 days.
What do homes in 33851 sell for?
The typical home value in 33851 is $308,500 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), down 1.6% in a year. County records put the median at about $191 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 33851?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 33851 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 33851 compare to Polk County?
33851's typical value of $308,500 compares with a middle value of $285,300 across Polk County's 35 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for August 2026.
Where does this 33851 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Not available for this ZIP — no rent or ownership-cost estimate published here.
Rent to price
Not available for this ZIP — no price-to-rent ratio published here.
66
/100
stable
stable · balanced · prices easing year-over-year.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Negotiate Hard
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)0
Valuation Gap (25%)100
Supply & Demand (20%)85
Days on Market (5%)100
Moderate buyer leverage in 33851. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 24.4% of median income. Median days on market: 111. Market appears 55% overpriced vs. assessed values.
What to Offer
Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.
Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Polk.
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
5 tiers had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
$103k
$82
14
4.0%
ZIP
$250k–$500k
$325k
$131
335
96.0%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$555k
$158
860
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COUNTY · Polk, FL
$750k–$1M
$830k
$177
193
—
COUNTY · Polk, FL
$1M–$1.5M
$1.20M
$210
118
—
COUNTY · Polk, FL
$1.5M–$2M
$1.65M
$281
69
—
COUNTY · Polk, FL
$2M+
$3.15M
$307
66
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COUNTY · Polk, FL
All sales (the headline median)
$320k
$130
349
100%
ZIP
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 33851.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
Polk County
County-level context for ZIP 33851
Verified — Polk County
Moderate (32)
ZIP 33851→Polk County, FL
12-Month Direction
-8Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
Why this score
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
39· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
26.4%
affordable
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.4% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-08