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SheetFL-BELLAIR-MEADOWBROOK-TERRACE-FL · Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, FL 13,887 pop · income 30th 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Orange City · lowest
51,077
Orange City · lowest
51,077 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #1
Sturgeon Bay · near
56,882
Sturgeon Bay · near
56,882 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #2
Waite Park · near
56,884
Waite Park · near
56,884 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #3
Bellair-Meado… · this city
56,887
Bellair-Meado… · this city
56,887 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #4
Orono · near
56,890
Orono · near
56,890 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #5
New Bern · near
56,893
New Bern · near
56,893 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #6
Urbana · highest
178,231
Urbana · highest
178,231 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 13,887.
Nationally, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sits in the 30th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
30th
percentile, household income
48th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 13,887 residents in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, a small town within Florida. The typical household in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace brings in $56,887 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.2%. Typical homes in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace are valued around $218,700, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. Educational attainment runs 20.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Commute times here average 24.3 minutes, with 78.9% driving alone and 8.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
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 10.2%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Elfers (13,877 residents, $52,979 income); Gonzalez (13,861 residents, $81,080 income); On Top of the World (13,772 residents, $57,765 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Glenpool, OK (13,885 residents); Marshall, MN (13,880 residents); Urbana, MD (13,897 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
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 78.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.3 minutes.
Below median income · poverty 10.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, FL
32/100
4 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.
Poverty rate F
10.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$56,887
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 39/100 (F) · 10.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 36/100 (F) · 20.6%
Household income: 30/100 (F) · $56,887
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace compare to other US cities?
Where Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income30% higher than other cities
Home value48% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#642 of 903
29th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#649 of 894
27th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#357 of 930
62nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#592 of 930
36th 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
30th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$218,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 52% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,215 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,829 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.8×, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,215 of 15,516 and #1,829 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
$56,887Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,887
Median Income
$56,887
Median Home Value
$218,700
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
10.2%
Labor force participation
61.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.3 minutes
Drive Alone
78.9%
Carpool
8.0%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
8.9%
Other
2.7%
Based on 7,299 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace. 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace 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, 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.