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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-FLEMING-ISLAND-FL · Fleming Island, FL 29,351 pop · income 87th 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 Fleming Island
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fleming Island on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Texarkana · lowest
47,930
Texarkana · lowest
47,930 median HH income
40.3% of the leader · rank #1
Pompton Lakes · near
119,038
Pompton Lakes · near
119,038 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Fleming Island · this city
119,046
Fleming Island · this city
119,046 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Rochester Hil… · near
119,054
Rochester Hil… · near
119,054 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Marksboro · highest
119,063
Marksboro · highest
119,063 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Beckett · near
119,063
Beckett · near
119,063 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Fleming Island 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: 29,351.
Nationally, Fleming Island sits in the 87th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
87th
percentile, household income
76th
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: Fleming Island, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 29,351 residents in Fleming Island, a small city within Florida. The typical household in Fleming Island brings in $119,046 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.3%. Home values in Fleming Island run a median of $387,400, and the median resident age is 47.7 years. Educational attainment runs 47.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 2 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Workers in Fleming Island report an average commute of 24.0 minutes, with 72.1% driving alone and 18.7% working from home. 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 Fleming Island'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fleming Island, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Fleming Island?
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 Vero Beach South (29,365 residents, $71,675 income); Casselberry (29,473 residents, $57,816 income); East Lake-Orient Park (29,064 residents, $56,623 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Texarkana, AR (29,343 residents); Englewood, NJ (29,342 residents); Garfield Heights, OH (29,369 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Fleming Island?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.0 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.
What does the education layer cover for Fleming Island?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 47.9% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Fleming Island?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
B-
City profile score · Fleming Island, FL
66/100
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.
Household income A
$119,046
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.3%
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Fleming Island profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 85/100 (A) · $119,046
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 47.9%
Poverty rate: 70/100 (B) · 4.3%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Fleming Island compare to other US cities?
Fleming Island measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income87% higher than other cities
Home value76% 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 Fleming Island 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 Fleming Island near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fleming Island ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fleming Island only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#79 of 903
91st percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#245 of 894
72nd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#674 of 930
27th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#165 of 930
82nd 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
87th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Fleming Island's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$387,40024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Fleming Island's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,924 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,238 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.3×, Fleming Island sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,924 of 15,516 and #1,238 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
$119,046Fleming Island, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fleming Island, 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 Fleming Island, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
29,351
Median Income
$119,046
Median Home Value
$387,400
Median Age
47.7
Poverty Rate
4.3%
Labor force participation
55.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.9%
Schools
Total Schools
2
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.0 minutes
Drive Alone
72.1%
Carpool
6.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
18.7%
Other
2.0%
Based on 13,983 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 Fleming Island. 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 Fleming Island 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 Fleming Island sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fleming Island 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, NCES CCD, 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.