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SheetFL-MOUNT-DORA-FL · Mount Dora, FL 16,812 pop · income 49th 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 Mount Dora
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Dora on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Belle Glade · lowest
47,191
Belle Glade · lowest
47,191 median HH income
23.6% of the leader · rank #1
Mount Dora · this city
69,931
Mount Dora · this city
69,931 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #2
Coker · near
69,931
Coker · near
69,931 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #3
Laurel · near
69,932
Laurel · near
69,932 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #4
Blackhawk · near
69,934
Blackhawk · near
69,934 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #5
Millvale · near
69,936
Millvale · near
69,936 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #6
Moraga · highest
199,800
Moraga · highest
199,800 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 Mount Dora 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: 16,812.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Mount Dora lands in the 49th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
49th
percentile, household income
67th
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: Mount Dora, FL
16,812 people live in Mount Dora, Florida - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Mount Dora brings in $69,931 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.2%. Typical homes in Mount Dora are valued around $316,100, and the median resident age is 48.8 years. Educational attainment runs 37.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 49.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 282 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 88% from five years earlier.
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. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Mount Dora'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 population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Dora, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; 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 Mount Dora?
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.
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 Mount Dora?
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 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Mount Dora growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,431 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 282 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Dora?
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 Belle Glade (16,818 residents, $47,191 income); Vero Beach (16,785 residents, $67,351 income); Wildwood (16,739 residents, $71,858 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mount Vernon, OH (16,802 residents); Hannibal, MO (16,825 residents); Marion, IL (16,796 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Mount Dora?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 37.5% 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.
Poverty estimate
7.2%
Bachelor's degree+
37.5%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 7.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Mount Dora, FL
48/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$69,931
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Mount Dora profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.5%
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.2%
Household income: 49/100 (D) · $69,931
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Mount Dora compare to other US cities?
Where Mount Dora sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value67% 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 Mount Dora 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 Mount Dora near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Dora ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Dora only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#425 of 903
53rd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#399 of 894
55th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#492 of 930
47th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#282 of 930
70th 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
49th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Mount Dora's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$316,10033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
Mount Dora's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,018 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,352 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.5×, Mount Dora sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,018 of 15,516 and #2,352 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
$69,931Mount Dora, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Dora, 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 Mount Dora, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,812
Median Income
$69,931
Median Home Value
$316,100
Median Age
48.8
Poverty Rate
7.2%
Labor force participation
49.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.5%
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mount Dora's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,360 residents
2021
16,680 residents
2022
17,159 residents
2023
17,805 residents
2024
18,210 residents
2025
18,791 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
282
housing units authorized
Single-Family
276
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
16.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
150
144
6
$29.0M
2020
137
135
2
$28.3M
2021
162
162
0
$27.1M
2022
272
264
8
$50.2M
2023
151
149
2
$32.3M
2024
282
276
6
$54.4M
Permit volume increased 88% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.0%
Carpool
11.8%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
15.8%
Other
4.5%
Based on 6,778 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 Mount Dora. 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 Mount Dora 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 Mount Dora sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Dora 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, 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.