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SheetFL-MIDWAY-CDP-SANTA-ROSA-COUNTY-FL · Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), FL 20,745 pop · income 71st 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Pensacola · lowest
38,641
West Pensacola · lowest
38,641 median HH income
21.1% of the leader · rank #1
Hazel Green · near
90,654
Hazel Green · near
90,654 median HH income
49.5% of the leader · rank #2
Hamburg · near
90,655
Hamburg · near
90,655 median HH income
49.5% of the leader · rank #3
Midway CDP (S… · this city
90,662
Midway CDP (S… · this city
90,662 median HH income
49.5% of the leader · rank #4
Painted Hills · near
90,662
Painted Hills · near
90,662 median HH income
49.5% of the leader · rank #5
Saline · near
90,662
Saline · near
90,662 median HH income
49.5% of the leader · rank #6
North Bellmore · highest
183,250
North Bellmore · highest
183,250 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) 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: 20,745.
Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) ranks in the 71st percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
71st
percentile, household income
72nd
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: Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), FL
20,745 people live in Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), Florida - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) brings in $90,662 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.0%. Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)'s housing stock carries a median value of $352,600, and the median resident age is 44.1 years. About 34.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 58.4% 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). 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). Commute times here average 24.7 minutes, with 69.3% driving alone and 14.3% 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.7 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)?
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 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)?
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 West Pensacola (20,679 residents, $38,641 income); Groveland (20,621 residents, $92,258 income); Fort Walton Beach (20,956 residents, $66,556 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fate, TX (20,757 residents); West Hempstead, NY (20,762 residents); Hauppauge, NY (20,772 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.
Above median income · poverty 7.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C-
City profile score · Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), 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.
Household income B
$90,662
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $90,662
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.7%
Poverty rate: 53/100 (C-) · 7.0%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) compare to other US cities?
Where Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value72% 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#221 of 903
76th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#310 of 894
65th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#504 of 930
45th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#331 of 930
64th 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)'s home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$352,60028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County)'s home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,359 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,880 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.9×, Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,359 of 15,516 and #1,880 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
$90,662Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County), FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
20,745
Median Income
$90,662
Median Home Value
$352,600
Median Age
44.1
Poverty Rate
7.0%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.7 minutes
Drive Alone
69.3%
Carpool
12.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
14.3%
Other
3.0%
Based on 10,088 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County). 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) 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 Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Midway CDP (Santa Rosa County) 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.