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SheetFL-IMMOKALEE-FL · Immokalee, FL 25,624 pop · income 14th pct · 10 tracts
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 Immokalee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Immokalee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bessemer · lowest
37,844
Bessemer · lowest
37,844 median HH income
28.8% of the leader · rank #1
Hymera · near
46,122
Hymera · near
46,122 median HH income
35.1% of the leader · rank #2
Bridgeton · near
46,124
Bridgeton · near
46,124 median HH income
35.1% of the leader · rank #3
Glenvar · near
46,125
Glenvar · near
46,125 median HH income
35.1% of the leader · rank #4
Tecumseh · near
46,127
Tecumseh · near
46,127 median HH income
35.1% of the leader · rank #5
Immokalee · this city
46,143
Immokalee · this city
46,143 median HH income
35.1% of the leader · rank #6
Nocatee · highest
131,488
Nocatee · highest
131,488 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 Immokalee 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: 25,624.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Immokalee places in the 14th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
14th
percentile, household income
42nd
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: Immokalee, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 25,624 residents in Immokalee, a small city within Florida. Immokalee households earn a median of $46,143 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.0%. Immokalee's housing stock carries a median value of $197,000, and the median resident age is 30.0 years. Educational attainment runs 5.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 74.7°F with 48.0 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. 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. Commute times here average 34.4 minutes, with 64.2% driving alone and 3.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Immokalee'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to housing and income to within-city variation to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Immokalee, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Immokalee?
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 Pace (25,630 residents, $84,912 income); South Bradenton (25,585 residents, $47,914 income); Nocatee (25,581 residents, $131,488 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Newberg, OR (25,622 residents); Starkville, MS (25,611 residents); Inkster, MI (25,602 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.
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 74.7°F, with 48.0 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.
What does the education layer cover for Immokalee?
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 12 public schools within the city match. 5.9% 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.
What can 10 Census tracts reveal inside Immokalee?
PlainCities matches 10 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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 Immokalee?
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 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.3×
Home value
$197,000
Household income
$46,143
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Immokalee?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 34.4 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.
Drive alone
64.2%
Work from home
3.1%
Public transit
2.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 11,453 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Immokalee, FL
14/100
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.
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
$46,143
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
20.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
5.9%
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).
Immokalee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 15/100 (F) · $46,143
Poverty rate: 13/100 (F) · 20.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 5.9%
How does Immokalee compare to other US cities?
Immokalee measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income14% higher than other cities
Home value42% 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 Immokalee 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 Immokalee near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Immokalee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Immokalee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#790 of 903
13th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#686 of 894
23rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#117 of 930
87th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#891 of 930
4th 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
14th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Immokalee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$197,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Immokalee's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,444 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,198 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Immokalee sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,444 of 15,516 and #2,198 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
$46,143Immokalee, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Immokalee, 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 Immokalee, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)5.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,624
Median Income
$46,143
Median Home Value
$197,000
Median Age
30.0
Poverty Rate
20.0%
Labor force participation
63.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
5.9%
Climate
Avg Temperature
74.7°F
Annual Precipitation
48.0"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
12
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
34.4 minutes
Drive Alone
64.2%
Carpool
25.9%
Public Transit
2.7%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
3.1%
Other
2.4%
Based on 11,453 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 Immokalee. 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 Immokalee 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 Immokalee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Immokalee 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.