So just how expensive is it to live in the Sunshine State?
Visual Capitalist used data from Home Sweet Home to analyze the salary one needs to earn in order to buy a home in America’s 50 biggest metros.
Here are the salaries needed to comfortably afford a home in Florida’s largest metros:
Miami
Median home price: $530,000
Salary needed: $103,744
Orlando
Median home price: $399,900
Salary needed: $79,573
Tampa
Median home price: $379,900
Salary needed: $75,416
Jacksonville
Median home price: $365,900
Salary needed: $73,465
According to the data, the median home price in the U.S. is around $370,000. That means the average person would need to earn around $76,000 to consider comfortably purchasing a home in the U.S.