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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-CALLAWAY-FL · Callaway, FL 13,297 pop · income 49th 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 Callaway
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Callaway on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Butler · lowest
41,705
Butler · lowest
41,705 median HH income
25.7% of the leader · rank #1
Modesto · near
69,375
Modesto · near
69,375 median HH income
42.8% of the leader · rank #2
Seaton · near
69,375
Seaton · near
69,375 median HH income
42.8% of the leader · rank #3
Green · near
69,384
Green · near
69,384 median HH income
42.8% of the leader · rank #4
Callaway · this city
69,388
Callaway · this city
69,388 median HH income
42.8% of the leader · rank #5
Chicago Ridge · near
69,389
Chicago Ridge · near
69,389 median HH income
42.8% of the leader · rank #6
Kings Park We… · highest
162,007
Kings Park We… · highest
162,007 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 Callaway 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: 13,297.
Nationally, Callaway sits in the 49th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
49th
percentile, household income
47th
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: Callaway, FL
Florida's Callaway is a small town, with 13,297 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Callaway brings in $69,388 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.7%. Home values in Callaway run a median of $215,300, and the median resident age is 37.1 years. About 22.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 79 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 44% from five years earlier.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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). Natural-hazard exposure scores 75.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Callaway'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Callaway, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Callaway?
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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Callaway?
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.
Within Florida, the closest population matches are South Daytona (13,322 residents, $54,931 income); Conway (13,346 residents, $96,250 income); Atlantic Beach (13,353 residents, $103,288 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Trenton, OH (13,304 residents); Butler, PA (13,306 residents); Woodland Park, NJ (13,284 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Callaway?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Callaway growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,383 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 79 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.
Below median income · poverty 5.7% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Callaway, FL
44/100
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 C+
5.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$69,388
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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).
Callaway profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 61/100 (C+) · 5.7%
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $69,388
Bachelor's+ share: 42/100 (D) · 22.8%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Callaway compare to other US cities?
Callaway measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value47% 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 Callaway 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 Callaway near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Callaway ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Callaway only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#429 of 903
52nd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#657 of 894
27th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#582 of 930
37th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#545 of 930
41st 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
49th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Callaway's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$215,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 53% 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
Callaway's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,200 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,050 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Callaway sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,200 of 15,516 and #1,050 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
$69,388Callaway, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Callaway, 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 Callaway, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,297
Median Income
$69,388
Median Home Value
$215,300
Median Age
37.1
Poverty Rate
5.7%
Labor force participation
60.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.8%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Callaway's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,986 residents
2021
13,140 residents
2022
13,480 residents
2023
13,838 residents
2024
14,189 residents
2025
14,369 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
79
housing units authorized
Single-Family
64
detached homes
Multifamily
15
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
55
55
0
$10.7M
2020
69
69
0
$13.4M
2021
79
79
0
$15.4M
2022
67
67
0
$13.1M
2023
62
62
0
$12.1M
2024
79
64
15
$20.1M
Permit volume increased 44% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.8%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
4.8%
Other
1.1%
Based on 6,908 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 Callaway. 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 Callaway 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 Callaway sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Callaway 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 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.