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SheetFL-APOPKA-FL · Apopka, FL 56,202 pop · income 75th pct · 75 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Apopka
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Apopka on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bradenton · lowest
60,964
Bradenton · lowest
60,964 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #1
Coopers Plains · near
95,694
Coopers Plains · near
95,694 median HH income
85.6% of the leader · rank #2
Honey Brook · near
95,694
Honey Brook · near
95,694 median HH income
85.6% of the leader · rank #3
Apopka · this city
95,703
Apopka · this city
95,703 median HH income
85.6% of the leader · rank #4
Sausal · near
95,705
Sausal · near
95,705 median HH income
85.6% of the leader · rank #5
Quincy · near
95,711
Quincy · near
95,711 median HH income
85.6% of the leader · rank #6
Fountain Vall… · highest
111,797
Fountain Vall… · highest
111,797 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Apopka on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 56,202.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Apopka - the verdict
Apopka ranks in the 75th percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
75th
percentile, household income
74th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
19th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Apopka, FL
Apopka is a small city in Florida, home to 56,202 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Apopka report a median income of $95,703 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.4%. Apopka's housing stock carries a median value of $364,300, and the median resident age is 38.7 years. 37.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,439 residential building permits were authorized in Apopka (Building Boom), up 335% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Apopka's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2748.3 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Florida at 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Apopka workers runs 26.3 minutes, with 69.0% driving alone and 19.2% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Apopka's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to within-city variation to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Apopka, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Apopka?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.3 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
PlainCities matches 75 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 17 public schools within the city match. 37.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Apopka?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Sarasota (56,218 residents, $70,065 income); Bradenton (56,289 residents, $60,964 income); Fountainebleau (56,453 residents, $65,568 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Smyrna, GA (56,285 residents); Bentonville, AR (56,326 residents); Fountain Valley, CA (56,358 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Apopka?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2748.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 21% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
2748.3
Violent rate
430.8
Property rate
2317.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Apopka?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.8×
Home value
$364,300
Household income
$95,703
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +10,648 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +19.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,439 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
54,904
2025 estimate
65,552
Period change
+19.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 6.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C-
City profile score · Apopka, FL
50/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income B+
$95,703
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
431 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Apopka profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $95,703
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.7%
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.4%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Violent crime: 20/100 (F) · 431 /100k
Where Apopka sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Apopka's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Apopka highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Apopka, FL (this city): home $364,300, crime 2,748/100k
Smyrna, GA : home $409,000, crime 1,540/100k
Bentonville, AR : home $370,700, crime 1,083/100k
Fountain Valley, CA : home $1,018,600, crime 1,963/100k
National City, CA : home $580,900, crime 2,635/100k
Kannapolis, NC : home $245,500, crime 1,953/100k
DeSoto, TX : home $282,600, crime 1,969/100k
Sarasota, FL : home $409,700, crime 2,165/100k
Bradenton, FL : home $282,500, crime 2,315/100k
How does Apopka compare to other US cities?
Apopka measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income75% higher than other cities
Home value74% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety19% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Florida, Apopka ranks #96 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Apopka against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Apopka near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Apopka ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Apopka only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#188 of 903
79th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#292 of 894
67th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#548 of 930
41st percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#277 of 930
70th percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
75th percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Apopka's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Apopka's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Apopka's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$364,30026th percentilemore affordable than 26% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Apopka's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,080 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#282 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.8×, Apopka sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,080 of 15,516 and #282 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$95,703Apopka, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Apopka, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Apopka, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
56,202
Median Income
$95,703
Median Home Value
$364,300
Median Age
38.7
Poverty Rate
6.4%
Labor force participation
67.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2748.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
430.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2317.5
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Apopka's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
54,904 residents
2021
55,596 residents
2022
57,531 residents
2023
60,274 residents
2024
62,155 residents
2025
65,552 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,439
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,439
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
25.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
331
331
0
$98.0M
2020
743
465
278
$156.7M
2021
604
604
0
$207.2M
2022
937
466
471
$187.3M
2023
705
450
255
$169.1M
2024
1,439
1,439
0
$498.5M
Permit volume increased 335% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.3 minutes
Drive Alone
69.0%
Carpool
9.3%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
19.2%
Other
1.7%
Based on 29,009 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Apopka. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Apopka is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Apopka sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Apopka compares to similar-size Florida cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.