Gainesville & Alachua County neighborhoods. Know what matters before you buy.

Gainesville is a university economy with a housing market to match: stable demand from UF and the hospital systems, a rental investor layer around campus, and family neighborhoods that orbit school zoning and the Haile Plantation standard on the west side. The real growth story is west and northwest — Newberry, Alachua, and High Springs — where Tioga-style new urbanism, production subdivisions, and small-town acreage all compete for the same relocating buyer.

Our guides below cover what actually decides these purchases: which side of I-75 you live on, school zoning, HOA and CDD posture in the newer master plans, well-and-septic realities in the outlying towns, and the springs-country lifestyle that makes High Springs and Melrose unlike anywhere else in Florida.

1,110 community guides, organized by town — the largest towns show their most active communities here, with every community on the town page. Start with the interactive Neighborhood Finder if you'd rather browse the whole map.