How Much Does House Cleaning Cost? Real 2026 Central Florida Prices

How much does house cleaning cost by service type?

A standard recurring clean has a median price of $130 and a deep clean $299. These are real completed-job numbers, not estimates or national averages. Builder final cleans are quoted per job, because no two of them are the same size. "Median" means the middle price: half of cleans cost less, half cost more. The "typical range" is where the middle 50% of jobs landed, which is a far more useful guide than a single average that a handful of huge jobs can distort.

Source: Orchid Cleaning Service completed-and-paid job records, Polk County, FL, 2024–2026 (a 2023 legacy import was excluded). Flat-rate prices are list service totals before 7% Florida sales tax, and exclude tips and card-processing fees. Move-in/move-out cleans are billed hourly ($95/hr for a two-cleaner crew); the figure shown is that rate applied to the median measured on-site time of about 3.4 hours. Post-construction figures cover Orchid's builder/GC final cleans (39 jobs, combining Housecall Pro and QuickBooks records). Apartment turnovers are negotiated per property and not averaged here.

Why does service type matter more than square footage?

Switching a home from a standard clean to a deep clean more than doubles the price (a $130 median becomes $299) even though the house is the same size. The biggest surprise in the data: what you're asking for matters more than how big your home is. A regular maintenance clean of an already-tidy three-bedroom and a regular clean of a tidy two-bedroom often land within a few dollars of each other, because the work is similar. But switch that same home from a standard clean to a deep clean and the price roughly doubles, because a deep clean takes about three hours of hands-on work instead of ninety minutes.

That's why a good cleaner asks about condition and scope before quoting, not just bedroom count. A lightly maintained home is a different job from a "we haven't cleaned in six months" home, and both are different again from a post-renovation clean, even at the same address.

What makes house cleaning prices go up or down?

Condition is the single biggest lever: a home on a regular schedule stays in the $108–$150 band, while months of buildup push it toward deep-clean pricing. Here's what moves the number:

• Condition. A home on a regular schedule stays in the $108–$150 band. The longer it's been since the last clean, the more it drifts toward deep-clean pricing.
• First clean vs. recurring. The first visit to a new home is almost always priced higher than the ongoing visits, because it resets built-up grime that maintenance cleans then keep on top of.
• Empty vs. occupied. Move-in/move-out cleans cost more than they look like they should: an empty home means every cabinet interior, baseboard, and appliance is in scope with nothing skipped.
• Add-ons. Inside the oven, inside the refrigerator, interior windows, and garage are the most common extras, each adding to the base.

How much does a deep clean cost in Lakeland?

A deep clean in Lakeland, and across Polk County, runs a median of $299, typically $201–$445 before tax. A deep clean costs about twice a standard clean because it takes roughly three hours of hands-on work instead of ninety minutes, covering appliances, baseboards, and detail that a maintenance clean keeps on top of. See our deep cleaning service for exactly what's included.

How much does a move-out clean cost?

A move-out clean ran a median of $350, from 52 completed and paid move-ins and move-outs. They are quoted hourly at $95/hour for a two-cleaner crew and take a median of 3 hr 34 min on site. Empty homes cost more than they look like they should, because every cabinet interior, baseboard, and appliance is in scope with nothing skipped. See move-in / move-out cleaning for the full checklist.

How does Central Florida cleaning compare to national averages?

Central Florida's $130 standard recurring-clean median sits at the low end of the $120–$235 range national sources often quote, which fits a lower-cost-of-living market like Polk County. The gap widens for specialty work: deep, move-out, and post-construction cleans here are priced by the real labor they take, so they land higher than a one-size-fits-all national number would suggest.

Methodology

Every figure on this page comes from Orchid Cleaning Service's own completed-job records in Housecall Pro. We included 6,207 priced residential cleans completed across Polk County in 2024–2026, and excluded a 2023 legacy data import and canceled jobs. Narrowing the same set to jobs paid in full leaves 5,026 standard cleans and does not move the median by a cent, so we report the wider set. Jobs were grouped by service type from the booked service description, which is a limitation worth stating: a job only lands in a category if it was booked with that wording. Reported prices are the list service price for each completed job: the amount charged before Florida's 7% sales tax, so every figure reflects the full list price of the service. Residential, vacation-rental and commercial work are separated account by account, checked against our commercial billing list and what each job ticket says. We do not use the customer-type flag in our software, because we found it mislabels accounts in both directions. We excluded canceled jobs, commercial accounts, stand-alone add-ons (such as window-only or carpet-only visits), credit-card surcharges, and tips. Standard recurring cleans, deep cleans, and vacation-rental turnovers reflect the completed, paid cleans that carried a flat service charge. A note on the vacation-rental figures: the turnover figures come from 376 completed turnovers at only 18 distinct properties, so they are far less independent than the job count suggests, and roughly half of the turnovers come from four small properties we clean very frequently. That makes the single median a description of which homes we visit most rather than of a typical property. Broken out by size, using bedroom counts from public property records and our own site notes (available for 14 of the 16 properties), turnovers run about $112–$133 for a one or two-bedroom, $155 for a three-bedroom, $220 for a four-bedroom and $306 for a five-bedroom. Crew size differs for this category: 71% of vacation turnovers are worked by a single cleaner rather than the two-person crew used on standard cleans, so their on-site times are not directly comparable to the other categories on our companion timing study. Move-in/move-out cleans are quoted hourly ($95/hour for a two-cleaner crew) rather than at a flat rate, so the amount varies with how long the job takes. We report the median amount actually billed, $350 across 50 completed and paid move-ins and move-outs, alongside the median measured on-site time of 3 hr 34 min (51 clocked jobs). Note that the billed median runs a little above the straight hourly arithmetic, which reflects minimums on smaller jobs, supplies, and the jobs that overrun. Apartment turnovers (property-management make-readies) are negotiated per property by unit mix and not averaged. Post-construction figures cover 39 builder and general-contractor final cleans (for accounts including Everett Whitehead & Son, Sadler Homes, Webb HomeBuilders, and Lord Built), combining Housecall Pro and QuickBooks records, since many builder jobs are invoiced through QuickBooks rather than Housecall Pro. "Median" is the middle value of each group and "typical range" is the 25th-to-75th-percentile span. Orchid Cleaning Service has cleaned homes and businesses across Central Florida since 2011.

You're welcome to cite or reference this data with attribution to Orchid Cleaning Service (orchidcleaningservice.com). Published June 2026.