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SheetFL-HILLSBORO-PINES-FL · Hillsboro Pines, FL 567 pop · income 64th 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 Hillsboro Pines
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hillsboro Pines on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Low Mountain · lowest
18,472
Low Mountain · lowest
18,472 median HH income
13.5% of the leader · rank #1
Hillsboro Pin… · this city
82,778
Hillsboro Pin… · this city
82,778 median HH income
60.5% of the leader · rank #2
Cayucos · near
82,778
Cayucos · near
82,778 median HH income
60.5% of the leader · rank #3
Scottdale · near
82,778
Scottdale · near
82,778 median HH income
60.5% of the leader · rank #4
Three Rivers · near
82,780
Three Rivers · near
82,780 median HH income
60.5% of the leader · rank #5
Amenia · near
82,781
Amenia · near
82,781 median HH income
60.5% of the leader · rank #6
Orchid · highest
136,875
Orchid · highest
136,875 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 Hillsboro Pines 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: 567.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Hillsboro Pines places in the 64th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
64th
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: Hillsboro Pines, FL
Hillsboro Pines is a small town in Florida, home to 567 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Hillsboro Pines households earn a median of $82,778 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Hillsboro Pines's housing stock carries a median value of $489,900, and the median resident age is 42.5 years. About 14.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 71.7% 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). 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 Hillsboro Pines'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 housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hillsboro Pines, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, 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 Hillsboro Pines?
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 Altha (567 residents, $32,898 income); Beverly Beach (564 residents, $43,864 income); Penney Farms (573 residents, $60,625 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Low Mountain, AZ (567 residents); Kanopolis, KS (567 residents); Alberton, MT (567 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 Hillsboro Pines?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.4%. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Hillsboro Pines?
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 5.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Above median income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C-
City profile score · Hillsboro Pines, FL
54/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C+
$82,778
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Hillsboro Pines profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $82,778
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Bachelor's+ share: 19/100 (F) · 14.7%
How does Hillsboro Pines compare to other US cities?
Where Hillsboro Pines sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income64% 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 Hillsboro Pines 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 Hillsboro Pines near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hillsboro Pines ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hillsboro Pines only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#289 of 903
68th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#147 of 894
84th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#855 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#730 of 930
21st 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
64th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Hillsboro Pines's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$489,90016th 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 · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,041 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,431 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.9×, Hillsboro Pines sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,041 of 15,516 and #10,431 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$82,778Hillsboro Pines, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hillsboro Pines, 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 Hillsboro Pines, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
567
Median Income
$82,778
Median Home Value
$489,900
Median Age
42.5
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
71.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.4%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.0%
Work from Home
19.6%
Based on 352 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 Hillsboro Pines. 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 Hillsboro Pines 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 Hillsboro Pines sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hillsboro Pines 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.