Lehigh Acres is a community in Lee County, Florida, home to about 132,353 people across 93 square miles. Its ZIP codes are 33936, 33971, 33972, 33973, 33974 and 33976, and parts of 33905, 33913 and 33920 are in Lehigh Acres too.
Homes sold for a median of $196 per square foot across 6 ZIP codes in the three months ending August 2026, and 0 of 6 were seller’s markets.
Mostly Lehigh Acres
Mostly Lehigh Acres; also Fort Myers
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All in Lehigh Acres
All in Lehigh Acres
All in Lehigh Acres
Mostly Fort Myers; part is in Lehigh Acres
Mostly Fort Myers; part is in Lehigh Acres
Mostly Alva; part is in Lehigh Acres
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Lehigh Acres. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Lehigh Acres began as a ranch. In the 1950s Chicago businessman Lee Ratner, who had made his fortune with the rodent poison D-Con, bought roughly 18,000 acres of eastern Lee County as a tax shelter and called it the Lucky Lee Ranch. Ratner then teamed up with partners including advertising executive Gerald Gould, and land sales at Lehigh Acres began in 1954. A photograph of a new home in the subdivision, taken in April 1963, is held by the State Archives of Florida.
The partners expanded the holdings far beyond the original ranch and platted most of the land into individual building lots, marketed and sold to buyers around the world. The result was a community that today covers about 96 square miles with well over 100,000 lots, mostly quarter-acre and half-acre parcels for single-family homes. For decades most of those lots sat empty, and the road network was built in pieces, with many gaps between paved corridors. The public library, now the East County Regional Library, was established in 1962 as the Lehigh Acres Public Library.
Lehigh Acres has never incorporated as a city. Lee County provides local government, and in 2015 the Florida Legislature created the Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District to handle drainage and flood control, roads and bridges, parks, conservation lands and community signage. Lee County has adopted community planning policies aimed at adding commercial centers, mixed-use nodes and parks to what began as an almost entirely residential plat.
Lehigh Acres is a pre-platted residential community: a grid of streets laid out decades ago and filled in house by house, so newer homes often stand beside older ones and beside vacant lots. Housing is overwhelmingly single-family homes on quarter-acre and half-acre lots, with duplexes in some areas. Lee County planners describe two distinct parts, a compact suburban core where services are concentrated and a much larger, more sparsely built area around it where owners can build on scattered lots by installing a private well and septic system.
Commercial land is limited and tends to sit in strips along the main roads. Lee Boulevard is the principal east-west commercial corridor, Homestead Plaza serves as the hub for local bus routes, and Lee County's planning studies have focused on a Downtown activity center and an Admiral Lehigh activity center as places for future mixed-use growth. State Road 82 runs along the community's southern edge.
Because Lehigh Acres is not a city, residents deal with Lee County for most services such as permitting and code rules, and with the improvement district for canals, drainage and some roads. The community has an extensive canal and stormwater system, and the district can close preserve areas during high water. Parks close to homes include Veterans Park, the largest community park, with a recreation center, fishing lake, splash pad and dog park, as well as Lehigh Acres Park and a community pool.
Driving is the norm. Lee Boulevard and State Road 82 are the main east-west routes, and Colonial Boulevard was extended east to Lehigh Acres to improve access to central Lee County. Central Fort Myers lies about 15 miles west, a drive of roughly 25 to 30 minutes, and the Fort Myers and Sanibel beaches are about 45 minutes to an hour away by car.
LeeTran, the county bus system, runs two routes in Lehigh Acres as of 2026: Route 110 connects Homestead Plaza in Lehigh Acres with Edison Mall in Fort Myers seven days a week, and Route 515, the Lehigh Circulator, runs Monday through Saturday between Homestead Plaza and East 12th Street and Joel Boulevard.
Southwest Florida International Airport is about 20 miles away, roughly half an hour via Colonial Boulevard and Interstate 75. The community's long, flat residential streets are commonly used for bicycling, though sidewalks are not among the improvement district's current services and would require a referendum to add.
The outdoors are the main draw. Harns Marsh, a roughly 578-acre former farm that has served as a stormwater filtering area since the early 1980s, is open on foot from dawn to dusk off Sunshine Boulevard; its water control structures support snail kites, limpkins and more than 140 other species, which makes it a regular stop for birders. It has no facilities and closes during high water.
Nearby conservation lands include Hickey Creek Wildlife and Environmental Area, Wild Turkey Strand Preserve and Frank Mann Preserve, and Lehigh Acres Trailhead Park provides a trail access point. Just north, Caloosahatchee Regional Park has mountain bike trails and campsites, with river access via the Alva boat ramp.
Veterans Park and its recreation center anchor community activities, with a fishing lake, splash pad and dog park, and the community pool is nearby. The East County Regional Library on Gunnery Road, part of the Lee County Library System, offers programs, genealogy resources and a Friends group. Several golf courses operate within the community. For museums, beaches and larger venues, the usual trip is west to Fort Myers, home to the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium, and on to the Lee County beaches.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW)9 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | St. Petersburg, FL100 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Lehigh Acres; driving is longer.
Source: Airports from OurAirports (scheduled passenger service); city centers and populations from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: Members of Congress from the congress-legislators project; districts from the Census Bureau’s relationship files; governor and mayor from Wikidata.
Lehigh Acres had 114,287 residents in the 2020 census, up 242% since 2000.
It’s the 16th largest of 954 towns in Florida by population.
Lee County grew from 3,071 residents in 1900 to 760,822 in 2020.
Lee County, 1900–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 91°F in summer, and winter lows average 54°F. About 53.5 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Ft Myers Sw Fl Rgnl Ap, FL weather station (9 miles away).
264,855 jobs at 22,756 businesses in Lee County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
303 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Lehigh Acres’s ZIP codes.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 41 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 22 |
| Dentists | 29 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 112 |
| Mental health providers | 49 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 35 |
| Optometrists | 3 |
| Chiropractors | 12 |
| Pharmacies | 17 |
Source: Hospitals from CMS Hospital General Information (ratings are CMS overall star ratings); straight-line distances; providers from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), by practice address and primary specialty.
Parks (7 nearby)
Grocery stores (4 nearby)
Pharmacies (1 nearby)
Libraries (1 nearby)
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 6.5 miles of the center of town.
Source: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), as mapped by volunteers; it can miss places or include closed ones.
Public schools here are run by Lee. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanecer Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 1,072 | Public | 2.4 mi |
| G. Weaver Hipps Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 960 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| Harns Marsh Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 1,103 | Public | 3.4 mi |
| Lehigh Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 1,207 | Public | 1.2 mi |
| Mirror Lakes Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 1,237 | Public | 3.6 mi |
| Sunshine Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 1,456 | Public | 2.7 mi |
| Tortuga Preserve Elementary SchoolLehigh Acres | Pre-K–5 | 1,172 | Public | 4.6 mi |
| Veterans Park Academy for the ArtsLehigh Acres | Pre-K–8 | 1,937 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| Harns Marsh Middle SchoolLehigh Acres | 6–8 | 905 | Public | 3.5 mi |
| Lehigh Acres Middle SchoolLehigh Acres | 6–8 | 1,509 | Public | 2.4 mi |
| Lemuel Teal Middle SchoolLehigh Acres | 6–8 | 1,008 | Public | 1.3 mi |
| Varsity Lakes Middle SchoolLehigh Acres | 6–8 | 1,009 | Public | 5.0 mi |
| Donna J. Beasley Technical AcademyLehigh Acres | 9–12 | 294 | Charter, Alternative Education | 2.3 mi |
| East Lee County High SchoolLehigh Acres | 9–12 | 2,129 | Public | 4.7 mi |
| Lehigh Senior High SchoolLehigh Acres | 9–12 | 2,550 | Public | 4.7 mi |
| Palm Acres Charter High SchoolLehigh Acres | 9–12 | 274 | Charter, Alternative Education | 2.5 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunnery Road Christian AcademyLehigh Acres | Pre-K–12 | 130 | Baptist | 4.8 mi |
| Lehigh Acres Christian SchoolLehigh Acres | K–12 | 107 | Christian (no specific denomination) | 0.4 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools; Private School Universe Survey (2023-2024) for private schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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Shares ZIP codes with Fort Myers, Gateway, Fort Myers Shores, Tice, Buckingham, Alva, Olga, Verandah and Charleston Park.
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