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Grant-Valkaria, FL

Grant-Valkaria's Census ACS profile: residents, income, housing, and the joined public-record layers available for this place.

4,655
Residents
$120,500
Median income
$481,400
Median home
$1,526
Median rent (state)
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Sheet FL-GRANT-VALKARIA-FL · Grant-Valkaria, FL 4,655 pop · income 87th pct

POP-VILLAGE · INC-TOP · COL-PAR · SAFE-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · HOME-HIGH · BOOK-UNK

  • POP-VILLAGE 4,655
  • INC-TOP $120,500
  • COL-PAR 103.4
  • SAFE-UNK Safety pending
  • RANK-TOP 87th
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sweetwater
  • HOME-HIGH $481,400
  • BOOK-UNK Tracts pending

Nearest income peer: Sweetwater, ID (+ $0 income $)

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 Grant-Valkaria

Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Grant-Valkaria on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-08

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Nationwide peers by population, income

Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Grant-Valkaria 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: 4,655.

4 peers

Similar household income

Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS median household income. This city: $120,500. Population peers are excluded.

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Grant-Valkaria - the verdict

Nationally, Grant-Valkaria 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
84th
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: Grant-Valkaria, FL

Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,655 residents in Grant-Valkaria, a small town within Florida. Median household income here is $120,500 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.0%. Home values in Grant-Valkaria run a median of $481,400, and the median resident age is 56.2 years. Educational attainment runs 33.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 46.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.

In 2024, 133 residential building permits were authorized in Grant-Valkaria (Building Boom), up 565% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.

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). 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 Grant-Valkaria'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 population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.

For Grant-Valkaria, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares. No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, 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 Grant-Valkaria?

Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.4%. 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. 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.

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2. Comparison shortlist

Which cities make useful reference points for Grant-Valkaria?

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 Gifford (4,658 residents, $27,765 income); Buckingham (4,637 residents, $103,438 income); Clarcona (4,636 residents, $48,350 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jackson, AL (4,654 residents); Nikiski, AK (4,656 residents); Pacheco, CA (4,657 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.

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Question 3

Is Grant-Valkaria growing, shrinking, or holding steady?

Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,461 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +32.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 133 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.

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4. Housing and income

How far does income reach against housing in Grant-Valkaria?

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 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.

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Population

4,655 residents

Micro place (under 10k)

Median Household Income

$120,500 /yr

High income · poverty 5.0% (Below-median poverty)

Cost of Living Index (state)

103.4 (US=100)

Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average

City profile score · Grant-Valkaria, FL

61/100

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
$120,500

Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.

Poverty rate B-
5.0%

Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.

Bachelor's+ share C+
33.7%

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).

Grant-Valkaria profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions) 4-axis radar comparing 1 series across Household income, Poverty rate, Bachelor's+ share, Cost of living. Household incomePoverty rateBachelor's+ shareCost of living 61 C+
Grant-Valkaria profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)
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  • Household income: 86/100 (A) · $120,500
  • Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.0%
  • Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.7%
  • Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index

How does Grant-Valkaria compare to other US cities?

Grant-Valkaria measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.

Household income 87% higher than other cities
Home value 84% pricier than other cities
Median rent 73% 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 Grant-Valkaria 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 Grant-Valkaria near the bottom of Florida's cities

Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Grant-Valkaria ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Grant-Valkaria only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.

Median Household Income
#74 of 903
92nd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#156 of 894
83rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#621 of 930
32nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#343 of 930
63rd 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.

87thIncome percentile
Gauge source note

87th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.

How Grant-Valkaria's home value compares nationally

Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)

$481,400 16th percentile more affordable than 16% of 15,600 US cities

Show national distribution $0–$25,000: 5 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $25,000–$50,000: 54 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $50,000–$75,000: 352 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $75,000–$100,000: 1,086 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $100,000–$125,000: 1,516 US cities (10%). Below this entry. $125,000–$150,000: 1,170 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $150,000–$175,000: 1,278 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $175,000–$200,000: 1,229 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $200,000–$225,000: 1,035 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $225,000–$250,000: 976 US cities (6%). Below this entry. $250,000–$275,000: 754 US cities (5%). Below this entry. $275,000–$300,000: 712 US cities (5%). Below this entry. $300,000–$325,000: 521 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $325,000–$350,000: 526 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $350,000–$375,000: 465 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $375,000–$400,000: 393 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $400,000–$425,000: 317 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $425,000–$450,000: 300 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $450,000–$475,000: 307 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $475,000–$500,000: 250 US cities (2%). This entry sits in this band. $500,000–$525,000: 160 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $525,000–$550,000: 156 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $550,000–$575,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $575,000–$600,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $600,000–$625,000: 163 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $625,000–$650,000: 167 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $650,000–$675,000: 135 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $675,000–$700,000: 101 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $700,000–$725,000: 95 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $725,000–$750,000: 71 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $750,000–$775,000: 65 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $775,000–$800,000: 70 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $800,000–$825,000: 57 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $825,000–$850,000: 67 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $850,000–$875,000: 60 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $875,000–$900,000: 58 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $900,000–$925,000: 47 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $925,000–$950,000: 37 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $950,000–$975,000: 31 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $975,000–$1,000,000: 470 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $1,000,000–$1,025,000: 0 US cities (0%). Above this entry. Grant-Valkaria $0 $1,025,000 every US city, bucketed by value

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

Grant-Valkaria's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×

ACS median home value divided by median household income.

Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,694 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,361 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)

At 4.0×, Grant-Valkaria sits in the moderate band: national rank #10,694 of 15,516 and #8,361 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

$120,500 Grant-Valkaria, FL median household income (Census ACS)

Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Household income distribution - Grant-Valkaria, FL Grant-Valkaria, FL's median household income ($120,500) against the U.S. national quintile-share pattern. The Lorenz curve and quintile bars are national context, not Grant-Valkaria, FL-specific shares. $ Household Income Distribution Grant-Valkaria, FL median $120,500/yr, vs. U.S. national quintile pattern QUINTILE SHARE OF AGGREGATE INCOME Lowest 20% 3.4% Second 20% 9.2% Middle 20% 15.1% Fourth 20% 23.2% Top 20% 49.1% LORENZ CURVE cumulative income vs. population 100% 0% 100% pop. 0%
Grant-Valkaria, 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 Grant-Valkaria, FL.

Key socioeconomic indicators

Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) 33.7%

Census ACS S1501, educational attainment

Poverty rate (households below FPL) 5.0%

Census ACS S1701, poverty status

Labor force participation (adults 16+) 46.5%

Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force

Population
4,655
Median Income
$120,500
Median Home Value
$481,400
Median Age
56.2
Poverty Rate
5.0%
Labor force participation
46.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.7%

Population Change

PEP vintage

Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025

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4,000 residents4,500 residents5,000 residents5,500 residents6,000 residents6,500 residents 202020212022202320242025 4,521 residents 5,982 residents ▲ +32.3%
Grant-Valkaria's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.
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Period Population
2020 4,521 residents
2021 4,558 residents
2022 4,725 residents
2023 5,067 residents
2024 5,709 residents
2025 5,982 residents

Housing Supply

BPS source

Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized

📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
133
housing units authorized
Single-Family
133
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
28.6
permits per 1,000 residents

5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)

Year Total
2020 20
2021 68
2022 145
2023 304
2024 133

Permit volume increased 565% from 2020 to 2024.

Commute Patterns

Commute source

How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023

Drive Alone
69.4%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
18.3%
Other
3.7%

Based on 1,843 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 Grant-Valkaria. 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 Grant-Valkaria 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 Grant-Valkaria sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.

How Grant-Valkaria 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.

City Population Median Household Income
Grant-Valkaria (this city) 4,655 $120,500
Gifford 4,658 $27,765
Buckingham 4,637 $103,438
Clarcona 4,636 $48,350
Census BPS 2024
Primary sources on this page

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.

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