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SheetFL-LYNN-HAVEN-FL · Lynn Haven, FL 19,451 pop · income 65th 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 Lynn Haven
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lynn Haven on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sweetwater · lowest
55,154
Sweetwater · lowest
55,154 median HH income
22.1% of the leader · rank #1
Hailey · near
83,084
Hailey · near
83,084 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #2
South Bloomfi… · near
83,092
South Bloomfi… · near
83,092 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #3
Lynn Haven · this city
83,093
Lynn Haven · this city
83,093 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #4
Burnsville · near
83,095
Burnsville · near
83,095 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #5
Vandenberg AFB · near
83,096
Vandenberg AFB · near
83,096 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #6
Orinda · highest
250,001
Orinda · highest
250,001 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 Lynn Haven 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: 19,451.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lynn Haven - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lynn Haven places in the 65th percentile for household income and the 73rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
65th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
73rd
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: Lynn Haven, FL
Florida's Lynn Haven is a small town, with 19,451 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Lynn Haven brings in $83,093 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.2%. Lynn Haven's housing stock carries a median value of $286,700, and the median resident age is 34.5 years. About 33.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 213 residential building permits were authorized in Lynn Haven (Growing), up 7% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Lynn Haven reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 784.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Lynn Haven'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 schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lynn Haven, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Lynn Haven?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 33.3% 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 does the journey to work look like in Lynn Haven?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.0%. 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lynn Haven?
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.
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Naples (19,421 residents, $140,833 income); Englewood (19,385 residents, $65,557 income); Sweetwater (19,544 residents, $55,154 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Madisonville, KY (19,442 residents); Cutlerville, MI (19,465 residents); Warrensburg, MO (19,437 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lynn Haven?
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 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lynn Haven?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 784.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 66% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
784.8
Violent rate
141.8
Property rate
643.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Lynn Haven growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,821 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +20.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 213 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.
2020 estimate
18,658
2025 estimate
22,479
Period change
+20.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 4.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C
City profile score · Lynn Haven, FL
56/100
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.
Poverty rate B
4.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$83,093
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C+
142 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Lynn Haven profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.3%
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $83,093
Violent crime: 60/100 (C+) · 142 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Lynn Haven sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lynn Haven'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 - Lynn Haven highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Lynn Haven, FL (this city): home $286,700, crime 785/100k
Madisonville, KY : home $152,300, crime 679/100k
Warrensburg, MO : home $216,900, crime 2,937/100k
Homewood, IL : home $210,500, crime 2,277/100k
Orinda, CA : home $1,804,400, crime 937/100k
Hawthorne, NJ : home $499,200, crime 895/100k
Sweetwater, FL : home $251,000, crime 2,171/100k
Seminole, FL : home $312,700, crime 2,068/100k
Cocoa, FL : home $215,700, crime 4,636/100k
How does Lynn Haven compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lynn Haven stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety73% 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, Lynn Haven ranks #22 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 Lynn Haven 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 Lynn Haven near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lynn Haven ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lynn Haven only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#285 of 903
68th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#474 of 894
47th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#681 of 930
26th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#353 of 930
62nd 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
65th percentile nationally for median household income · 73rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lynn Haven's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lynn Haven'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 Lynn Haven's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$286,70037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
Lynn Haven's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,781 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,443 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.5×, Lynn Haven sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,781 of 15,516 and #1,443 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
$83,093Lynn Haven, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lynn Haven, 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 Lynn Haven, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,451
Median Income
$83,093
Median Home Value
$286,700
Median Age
34.5
Poverty Rate
4.2%
Labor force participation
65.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
784.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
141.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
643.0
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.
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
Lynn Haven's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
18,658 residents
2021
19,060 residents
2022
20,137 residents
2023
20,728 residents
2024
21,996 residents
2025
22,479 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
213
housing units authorized
Single-Family
79
detached homes
Multifamily
134
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
200
97
103
$43.1M
2020
186
136
50
$10.7M
2021
393
138
255
$63.1M
2022
126
124
2
$31.3M
2023
431
89
342
$80.4M
2024
213
79
134
$43.2M
Permit volume increased 7% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.0%
Carpool
12.9%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
7.8%
Other
1.0%
Based on 9,856 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 Lynn Haven. 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 Lynn Haven 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 Lynn Haven sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lynn Haven 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, 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.