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SheetFL-KISSIMMEE-FL · Kissimmee, FL 79,504 pop · income 21st 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 Kissimmee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Kissimmee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pharr · lowest
49,884
Pharr · lowest
49,884 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #1
Norton · near
51,266
Norton · near
51,266 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #2
Kissimmee · this city
51,277
Kissimmee · this city
51,277 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #3
Portales · near
51,290
Portales · near
51,290 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #4
Fredericksbur… · near
51,292
Fredericksbur… · near
51,292 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #5
McRae-Helena · near
51,296
McRae-Helena · near
51,296 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #6
Plymouth · highest
133,865
Plymouth · highest
133,865 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Kissimmee on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 79,504.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Kissimmee - the verdict
Kissimmee ranks in the 21st percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
21st
percentile, household income
60th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
25th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Kissimmee, FL
Kissimmee is a small city in Florida, home to 79,504 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Kissimmee brings in $51,277 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.6%. Kissimmee's housing stock carries a median value of $273,900, and the median resident age is 36.3 years. About 25.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 869 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 21% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2386.3 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 72.5°F with 52.6 inches of precipitation per year.
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). 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 Kissimmee'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 schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Kissimmee, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Kissimmee?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 67.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Kissimmee?
The NCES join finds 54 public schools within the city match. 25.6% 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.
Is Kissimmee 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 +6,376 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 869 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Kissimmee?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Kendall (78,527 residents, $83,664 income); North Port (80,512 residents, $81,940 income); Boynton Beach (80,601 residents, $71,378 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Plymouth, MN (79,526 residents); Perris, CA (79,349 residents); Lynchburg, VA (79,255 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Kissimmee?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 72.5°F, with 52.6 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.
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.
Mean temperature
72.5°F
Annual precipitation
52.6 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
75.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Kissimmee?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.6%, 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
$51,277
Home value
$273,900
Value / income
5.3×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Kissimmee?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2386.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 5% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1894.7
Violent rate
491.7
Total reported rate
2386.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Kissimmee, FL
24/100
5 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 C-
25.6%
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
$51,277
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
492 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
20.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Kissimmee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 50/100 (C-) · 25.6%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,277
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 492 /100k
Poverty rate: 12/100 (F) · 20.6%
Where Kissimmee sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Kissimmee's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Kissimmee highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Kissimmee, FL (this city): home $273,900, crime 2,386/100k
Plymouth, MN : home $474,700, crime 1,075/100k
Perris, CA : home $431,900, crime 2,163/100k
Lynchburg, VA : home $211,800, crime 2,095/100k
Pharr, TX : home $111,500, crime 1,359/100k
Jonesboro, AR : home $213,400, crime 3,765/100k
Tustin, CA : home $890,600, crime 2,316/100k
North Port, FL : home $328,700, crime 875/100k
Boynton Beach, FL : home $312,700, crime 2,700/100k
How does Kissimmee compare to other US cities?
Where Kissimmee sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income21% higher than other cities
Home value60% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Florida, Kissimmee ranks #80 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Kissimmee 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 Kissimmee near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Kissimmee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Kissimmee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#730 of 903
19th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#505 of 894
44th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#102 of 930
89th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#499 of 930
46th 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Kissimmee's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Kissimmee's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Kissimmee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$273,90040th percentilemore affordable than 40% 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
Kissimmee's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,370 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#497 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.3×, Kissimmee sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,370 of 15,516 and #497 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$51,277Kissimmee, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Kissimmee, 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 Kissimmee, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
79,504
Median Income
$51,277
Median Home Value
$273,900
Median Age
36.3
Poverty Rate
20.6%
Labor force participation
60.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2386.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
491.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1894.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
72.5°F
Annual Precipitation
52.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
54
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Kissimmee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
79,215 residents
2021
79,611 residents
2022
81,087 residents
2023
83,207 residents
2024
84,430 residents
2025
85,591 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
869
housing units authorized
Single-Family
64
detached homes
Multifamily
805
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
719
264
455
$101.9M
2020
262
262
0
$64.2M
2021
614
248
366
$130.6M
2022
682
229
453
$112.5M
2023
645
291
354
$81.2M
2024
869
64
805
$101.9M
Permit volume increased 21% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.0%
Carpool
18.5%
Public Transit
2.4%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
9.0%
Other
1.9%
Based on 37,353 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 Kissimmee. 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 Kissimmee 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 Kissimmee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Kissimmee 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, FBI UCR, 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.