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SheetFL-DOCTOR-PHILLIPS-FL ยท Doctor Phillips, FL 12,458 pop ยท income 79th 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 Doctor Phillips
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Doctor Phillips on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Florida City ยท lowest
47,754
Florida City ยท lowest
47,754 median HH income
32.3% of the leader ยท rank #1
Ruhenstroth ยท near
101,533
Ruhenstroth ยท near
101,533 median HH income
68.8% of the leader ยท rank #2
Harrisburg ยท near
101,534
Harrisburg ยท near
101,534 median HH income
68.8% of the leader ยท rank #3
Doctor Philliโฆ ยท this city
101,540
Doctor Philliโฆ ยท this city
101,540 median HH income
68.8% of the leader ยท rank #4
Mansfield Cenโฆ ยท near
101,546
Mansfield Cenโฆ ยท near
101,546 median HH income
68.8% of the leader ยท rank #5
Burlington ยท near
101,550
Burlington ยท near
101,550 median HH income
68.8% of the leader ยท rank #6
Newington Forโฆ ยท highest
147,650
Newington Forโฆ ยท highest
147,650 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท 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 Doctor Phillips 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: 12,458.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Doctor Phillips lands in the 79th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
79th
percentile, household income
84th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
๐ 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: Doctor Phillips, FL
Florida's Doctor Phillips is a small town, with 12,458 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $101,540 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 11.2%. Home values in Doctor Phillips run a median of $484,000, and the median resident age is 44.9 years. Educational attainment runs 52.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 51.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 20.2 minutes, with 74.8% driving alone and 16.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Doctor Phillips'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Doctor Phillips, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Doctor Phillips?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.2%, 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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the journey to work look like in Doctor Phillips?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.2 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Doctor Phillips?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Jensen Beach (12,456 residents, $63,397 income); Lake City (12,404 residents, $51,175 income); Goldenrod (12,603 residents, $62,410 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Box Elder, SD (12,457 residents); Boone, IA (12,445 residents); Forest, VA (12,476 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.
High income ยท poverty 11.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost ยท BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C
City profile score ยท Doctor Phillips, FL
55/100
4 published dimensions ยท 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.
Bachelor's+ share A
52.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$101,540
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop โฅ1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.2%
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 โ 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).
Doctor Phillips profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 86/100 (A) ยท 52.6%
Household income: 78/100 (B+) ยท $101,540
Poverty rate: 35/100 (F) ยท 11.2%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) ยท 103.4 index
How does Doctor Phillips compare to other US cities?
Here's how Doctor Phillips stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value84% 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 Doctor Phillips 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 Doctor Phillips near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Doctor Phillips ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Doctor Phillips only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#145 of 903
84th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#153 of 894
83rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#314 of 930
66th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#110 of 930
88th 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Doctor Phillips's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$484,00016th percentilemore affordable than 16% 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 ยท 2023
Doctor Phillips's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8ร
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0โ5.0ร
National rank
#12,491 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,497 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000โ49,999)
At 4.8ร, Doctor Phillips sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,491 of 15,516 and #2,497 of 3,317small cities (10,000โ49,999).
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 รท median household income for cities with both fields and population โฅ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0โ5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$101,540Doctor Phillips, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Doctor Phillips, 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 Doctor Phillips, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)52.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,458
Median Income
$101,540
Median Home Value
$484,000
Median Age
44.9
Poverty Rate
11.2%
Labor force participation
51.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
52.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.2 minutes
Drive Alone
74.8%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
16.5%
Other
1.5%
Based on 5,583 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 Doctor Phillips. 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 Doctor Phillips 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 Doctor Phillips sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Doctor Phillips 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.