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SheetFL-FORT-PIERCE-FL · Fort Pierce, FL 48,094 pop · income 15th 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 Fort Pierce
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fort Pierce on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
University CD… · lowest
36,483
University CD… · lowest
36,483 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #1
Fort Pierce · this city
46,745
Fort Pierce · this city
46,745 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #2
Belk · near
46,750
Belk · near
46,750 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #3
Fairview · near
46,750
Fairview · near
46,750 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #4
Lyerly · near
46,750
Lyerly · near
46,750 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #5
Grandview · near
46,750
Grandview · near
46,750 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #6
Coral Gables · highest
130,803
Coral Gables · highest
130,803 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 Fort Pierce 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: 48,094.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Fort Pierce places in the 15th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
15th
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: Fort Pierce, FL
Florida's Fort Pierce is a small city, with 48,094 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Fort Pierce report a median income of $46,745 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.5%. Home values in Fort Pierce run a median of $220,500, and the median resident age is 38.0 years. 18.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 49.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 399 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 189% from five years earlier. The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 73.5°F with 55.9 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Fort Pierce workers runs 24.0 minutes, with 70.0% driving alone and 9.7% 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 Fort Pierce'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 population change to climate and hazard context to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fort Pierce, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Fort Pierce?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.0%. 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. 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.
Is Fort Pierce growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,164 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 399 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Fort Pierce?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 73.5°F, with 55.9 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Florida is 75.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fort Pierce?
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 Ocoee (47,885 residents, $93,292 income); University CDP (Hillsborough County) (48,868 residents, $36,483 income); Titusville (49,004 residents, $64,898 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Prescott Valley, AZ (48,048 residents); San Luis Obispo, CA (48,039 residents); Cleveland, TN (48,185 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Fort Pierce?
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.
The NCES join finds 21 public schools within the city match. 18.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
20.5%
Bachelor's degree+
18.8%
Matched public schools
21
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Fort Pierce?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.7×
Home value
$220,500
Household income
$46,745
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Fort Pierce, FL
20/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.8%
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.
Household income F
$46,745
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
20.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Fort Pierce profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.8%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 16/100 (F) · $46,745
Poverty rate: 12/100 (F) · 20.5%
How does Fort Pierce compare to other US cities?
Where Fort Pierce sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income15% 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 Fort Pierce 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 Fort Pierce near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fort Pierce ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fort Pierce only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#784 of 903
13th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#643 of 894
28th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#107 of 930
88th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#634 of 930
31st 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
15th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Fort Pierce's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$220,500Among 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
Fort Pierce's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,412 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,475 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Fort Pierce sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,412 of 15,516 and #2,475 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
$46,745Fort Pierce, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fort Pierce, 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 Fort Pierce, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
48,094
Median Income
$46,745
Median Home Value
$220,500
Median Age
38.0
Poverty Rate
20.5%
Labor force participation
49.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.8%
Climate
Avg Temperature
73.5°F
Annual Precipitation
55.9"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
21
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fort Pierce's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
47,573 residents
2021
48,305 residents
2022
48,883 residents
2023
50,023 residents
2024
50,977 residents
2025
51,737 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
399
housing units authorized
Single-Family
371
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
138
138
0
$36.0M
2020
235
235
0
$56.4M
2021
373
255
118
$86.0M
2022
439
299
140
$110.3M
2023
366
366
0
$120.4M
2024
399
371
28
$127.8M
Permit volume increased 189% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.0 minutes
Drive Alone
70.0%
Carpool
14.9%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
9.7%
Other
2.5%
Based on 18,528 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 Fort Pierce. 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 Fort Pierce 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 Fort Pierce sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fort Pierce 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.