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SheetFL-MYRTLE-GROVE-FL · Myrtle Grove, FL 16,637 pop · income 40th 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 Myrtle Grove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Myrtle Grove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Chaparral · lowest
46,102
Chaparral · lowest
46,102 median HH income
39.4% of the leader · rank #1
Moores Hill · near
63,000
Moores Hill · near
63,000 median HH income
53.9% of the leader · rank #2
Myrtle Grove · this city
63,011
Myrtle Grove · this city
63,011 median HH income
53.9% of the leader · rank #3
Jeddo · near
63,015
Jeddo · near
63,015 median HH income
53.9% of the leader · rank #4
Desloge · near
63,018
Desloge · near
63,018 median HH income
53.9% of the leader · rank #5
La Monte · near
63,021
La Monte · near
63,021 median HH income
53.9% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Mary · highest
116,944
Lake Mary · highest
116,944 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 Myrtle Grove 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: 16,637.
Myrtle Grove ranks in the 40th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
40th
percentile, household income
37th
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: Myrtle Grove, FL
Myrtle Grove is a small town in Florida, home to 16,637 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Myrtle Grove households earn a median of $63,011 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.7%. Myrtle Grove's housing stock carries a median value of $182,600, and the median resident age is 31.8 years. About 23.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.2% 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Commute times here average 21.1 minutes, with 65.8% driving alone and 12.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Myrtle Grove'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 Myrtle Grove, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 Myrtle Grove?
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 65.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.1 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Myrtle Grove?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.7%, 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Myrtle Grove?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Palmetto Estates (16,587 residents, $82,199 income); Lake Mary (16,724 residents, $116,944 income); Wildwood (16,739 residents, $71,858 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Chaparral, NM (16,642 residents); Berea, SC (16,642 residents); Glen Allen, VA (16,630 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.
Below median income · poverty 9.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Myrtle Grove, FL
37/100
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 D
23.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$63,011
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).
Myrtle Grove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 46/100 (D) · 23.9%
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.7%
Household income: 39/100 (F) · $63,011
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Myrtle Grove compare to other US cities?
Where Myrtle Grove sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income40% higher than other cities
Home value37% 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 Myrtle Grove 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 Myrtle Grove near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Myrtle Grove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Myrtle Grove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#547 of 903
39th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#716 of 894
20th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#368 of 930
60th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#533 of 930
42nd 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
40th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Myrtle Grove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$182,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
Myrtle Grove's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,123 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#761 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Myrtle Grove sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,123 of 15,516 and #761 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$63,011Myrtle Grove, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Myrtle Grove, 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 Myrtle Grove, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,637
Median Income
$63,011
Median Home Value
$182,600
Median Age
31.8
Poverty Rate
9.7%
Labor force participation
49.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.1 minutes
Drive Alone
65.8%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
11.9%
Work from Home
12.6%
Other
2.9%
Based on 8,710 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 Myrtle Grove. 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 Myrtle Grove 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 Myrtle Grove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Myrtle Grove 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.