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.

688 community guides below, organized by town. Start with the interactive Neighborhood Finder if you'd rather browse the whole map.