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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-AUBURNDALE-FL · Auburndale, FL 17,438 pop · income 47th pct
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 Auburndale
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Auburndale on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Selma · lowest
32,184
Selma · lowest
32,184 median HH income
18.0% of the leader · rank #1
Sheboygan Fal… · near
68,264
Sheboygan Fal… · near
68,264 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #2
Auburndale · this city
68,267
Auburndale · this city
68,267 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #3
Falmouth · near
68,267
Falmouth · near
68,267 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #4
Van · near
68,267
Van · near
68,267 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #5
Matheny · near
68,269
Matheny · near
68,269 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Butler · highest
178,750
Lake Butler · highest
178,750 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 Auburndale 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: 17,438.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Auburndale - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Auburndale places in the 47th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
47th
percentile, household income
60th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
25th
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: Auburndale, FL
Florida's Auburndale is a small town, with 17,438 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Auburndale households earn a median of $68,267 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.7%. Typical homes in Auburndale are valued around $272,700, and the median resident age is 42.0 years. 16.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 321 residential building permits were authorized in Auburndale (Rapid Growth), up 33% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2334.3 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Auburndale'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 schools and households to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Auburndale, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Auburndale?
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 16.5% 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.
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.
Is Auburndale growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,647 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +35.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 321 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Auburndale?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2334.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 2% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Auburndale?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Pinewood (17,427 residents, $47,551 income); South Venice (17,399 residents, $72,322 income); Lake Butler (17,242 residents, $178,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Heber, UT (17,438 residents); Shelbyville, KY (17,436 residents); Kingstowne, VA (17,436 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.
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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Auburndale?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
10.2%
Drive alone
82.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,567 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Auburndale?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$68,267
Home value
$272,700
Value / income
4.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 10.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Auburndale, FL
37/100
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 D
$68,267
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
217 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
10.7%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Auburndale profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 47/100 (D) · $68,267
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 217 /100k
Poverty rate: 37/100 (F) · 10.7%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Bachelor's+ share: 24/100 (F) · 16.5%
Where Auburndale sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Auburndale'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 - Auburndale highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
Auburndale, FL (this city): home $272,700, crime 2,334/100k
Heber, UT : home $571,300, crime 1,122/100k
Shelbyville, KY : home $238,600, crime 1,142/100k
Selma, AL : home $102,500, crime 3,092/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Auburndale compare to other US cities?
Here's how Auburndale stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income47% higher than other cities
Home value60% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Florida and the picture shifts: Auburndale ranks #78 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Auburndale 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 Auburndale near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Auburndale ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Auburndale only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#456 of 903
50th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#508 of 894
43rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#336 of 930
63rd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#691 of 930
25th 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
47th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Auburndale's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Auburndale'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 Auburndale's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$272,70040th percentilemore affordable than 40% 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
Auburndale's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,690 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,984 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.0×, Auburndale sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,690 of 15,516 and #1,984 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$68,267Auburndale, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Auburndale, 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 Auburndale, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,438
Median Income
$68,267
Median Home Value
$272,700
Median Age
42.0
Poverty Rate
10.7%
Labor force participation
55.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2334.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
216.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2117.5
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Auburndale's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,722 residents
2021
17,349 residents
2022
18,617 residents
2023
20,138 residents
2024
20,607 residents
2025
21,369 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
321
housing units authorized
Single-Family
321
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
18.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
241
241
0
$46.7M
2020
646
406
240
$79.1M
2021
482
479
3
$160.3M
2022
567
567
0
$217.9M
2023
220
218
2
$89.5M
2024
321
321
0
$129.1M
Permit volume increased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.8%
Carpool
4.1%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
10.2%
Other
2.0%
Based on 7,567 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 Auburndale. 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 Auburndale 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 Auburndale sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Auburndale 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.