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SheetFL-FREEPORT-FL · Freeport, FL 6,203 pop · income 71st 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 Freeport
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Freeport on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pembroke Park · lowest
50,710
Pembroke Park · lowest
50,710 median HH income
25.2% of the leader · rank #1
Tahoma · near
89,531
Tahoma · near
89,531 median HH income
44.5% of the leader · rank #2
Benton · near
89,531
Benton · near
89,531 median HH income
44.5% of the leader · rank #3
Yutan · near
89,531
Yutan · near
89,531 median HH income
44.5% of the leader · rank #4
New Fairview · near
89,531
New Fairview · near
89,531 median HH income
44.5% of the leader · rank #5
Freeport · this city
89,540
Freeport · this city
89,540 median HH income
44.5% of the leader · rank #6
Bridgewater C… · highest
201,250
Bridgewater C… · highest
201,250 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 Freeport 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: 6,203.
Freeport ranks in the 71st percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
71st
percentile, household income
75th
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: Freeport, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 6,203 residents in Freeport, a small town within Florida. Median household income here is $89,540 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.2%. Typical homes in Freeport are valued around $379,400, and the median resident age is 39.3 years. 31.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Freeport workers runs 31.0 minutes, with 62.2% driving alone and 17.6% working from home. 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 Freeport'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 population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Freeport, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Freeport growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,483 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +24.5% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 31.8% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Freeport?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Lauderdale-by-the-Sea (6,159 residents, $81,020 income); Pembroke Park (6,254 residents, $50,710 income); Vero Lake Estates (6,262 residents, $63,487 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are East Kapolei, HI (6,200 residents); Boiling Spring Lakes, NC (6,206 residents); Gleneagle, CO (6,207 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 Freeport?
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 62.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 31.0 minutes.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Freeport?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.2%, 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.
Household income
$89,540
Home value
$379,400
Value / income
4.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 7.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C-
City profile score · Freeport, FL
52/100
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 B-
$89,540
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.2%
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 ≈ 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).
Freeport profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 69/100 (B-) · $89,540
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.8%
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.2%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Freeport compare to other US cities?
Here's how Freeport stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value75% 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 Freeport 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 Freeport near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Freeport ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Freeport only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#228 of 903
75th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#260 of 894
71st percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#492 of 930
47th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#390 of 930
58th 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Freeport's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$379,40025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Freeport's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,349 of 15,516
More affordable than 27% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,780 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.2×, Freeport sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,349 of 15,516 and #8,780 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$89,540Freeport, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Freeport, 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 Freeport, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,203
Median Income
$89,540
Median Home Value
$379,400
Median Age
39.3
Poverty Rate
7.2%
Labor force participation
62.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.8%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Freeport's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,060 residents
2021
6,418 residents
2022
6,717 residents
2023
6,988 residents
2024
7,275 residents
2025
7,543 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
31.0 minutes
Drive Alone
62.2%
Carpool
16.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
17.6%
Based on 3,155 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 Freeport. 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 Freeport 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 Freeport sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Freeport 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.