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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-NEW-PORT-RICHEY-FL · New Port Richey, FL 17,057 pop · income 14th 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 New Port Richey
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Port Richey on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Glenvar · lowest
46,125
Glenvar · lowest
46,125 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #1
New Port Rich… · this city
46,160
New Port Rich… · this city
46,160 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #2
Walton · near
46,176
Walton · near
46,176 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #3
Peru · near
46,180
Peru · near
46,180 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #4
De Soto · near
46,181
De Soto · near
46,181 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #5
Niota · near
46,188
Niota · near
46,188 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Butler · highest
178,750
Lake Butler · highest
178,750 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 New Port Richey 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: 17,057.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, New Port Richey lands in the 14th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
14th
percentile, household income
32nd
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: New Port Richey, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 17,057 residents in New Port Richey, a small town within Florida. New Port Richey households earn a median of $46,160 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. New Port Richey's housing stock carries a median value of $164,600, and the median resident age is 53.5 years. Educational attainment runs 15.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 46.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 81 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 40% 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. 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 New Port Richey'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 housing and income to population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Port Richey, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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
How far does income reach against housing in New Port Richey?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.5%, 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.
Is New Port Richey 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 +1,512 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 81 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in New Port Richey?
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 71.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for New Port Richey?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Safety Harbor (17,040 residents, $105,813 income); Ojus (17,101 residents, $64,667 income); Upper Grand Lagoon (17,162 residents, $73,438 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Norwalk, OH (17,054 residents); Fairview Park, OH (17,049 residents); Pendleton, OR (17,070 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.
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 New Port Richey?
The NCES join finds 27 public schools within the city match. 15.7% 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.
Matched public schools
27
Bachelor's degree+
15.7%
Poverty estimate
8.5%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · New Port Richey, FL
27/100
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.
Poverty rate D
8.5%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$46,160
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
New Port Richey profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Bachelor's+ share: 22/100 (F) · 15.7%
Household income: 15/100 (F) · $46,160
How does New Port Richey compare to other US cities?
Here's how New Port Richey stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income14% higher than other cities
Home value32% 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 New Port Richey 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 New Port Richey near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Port Richey ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Port Richey only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#788 of 903
13th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#750 of 894
16th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#433 of 930
53rd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#706 of 930
24th 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
14th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How New Port Richey's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$164,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 68% 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
New Port Richey's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,239 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,559 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, New Port Richey sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,239 of 15,516 and #1,559 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
$46,160New Port Richey, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Port Richey, 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 New Port Richey, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,057
Median Income
$46,160
Median Home Value
$164,600
Median Age
53.5
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
46.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.7%
Schools
Total Schools
27
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Port Richey's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,787 residents
2021
17,094 residents
2022
17,407 residents
2023
17,802 residents
2024
18,074 residents
2025
18,299 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
81
housing units authorized
Single-Family
14
detached homes
Multifamily
67
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
58
12
46
$6.0M
2020
52
14
38
$5.0M
2021
88
16
72
$8.4M
2022
100
13
87
$9.3M
2023
90
13
77
$8.3M
2024
81
14
67
$7.4M
Permit volume increased 40% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.5%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
11.3%
Other
6.7%
Based on 7,008 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 New Port Richey. 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 New Port Richey 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 New Port Richey sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Port Richey 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.