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SheetFL-NICEVILLE-FL · Niceville, FL 16,043 pop · income 76th 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 Niceville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Niceville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Opa-locka · lowest
31,680
Opa-locka · lowest
31,680 median HH income
21.1% of the leader · rank #1
Mowbray Mount… · near
96,607
Mowbray Mount… · near
96,607 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #2
Casco · near
96,607
Casco · near
96,607 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #3
Niceville · this city
96,611
Niceville · this city
96,611 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #4
Littleton · near
96,611
Littleton · near
96,611 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #5
Renton · near
96,626
Renton · near
96,626 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #6
Floral Park · highest
150,350
Floral Park · highest
150,350 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 Niceville 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: 16,043.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Niceville lands in the 76th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
76th
percentile, household income
76th
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: Niceville, FL
Florida's Niceville is a small town, with 16,043 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Niceville brings in $96,611 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.7%. Niceville's housing stock carries a median value of $381,700, and the median resident age is 39.2 years. About 37.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 55.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 72 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 38% from five years earlier. NOAA puts Niceville's yearly average temperature at 66.2°F with 73.4 inches of precipitation per year.
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. 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 Niceville'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 population change to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to schools and households 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 Niceville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, 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.
1. Population change
Is Niceville 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 +2,091 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +13.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 72 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.2°F, with 73.4 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Florida is 75.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What does the journey to work look like in Niceville?
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 76.5%. 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 Niceville?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Marco Island (15,998 residents, $104,105 income); Opa-locka (16,097 residents, $31,680 income); Azalea Park (16,110 residents, $64,585 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Artesia, CA (16,044 residents); Southern Pines, NC (16,052 residents); Gatesville, TX (16,058 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 Niceville?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 37.8% 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
6
Bachelor's degree+
37.8%
Poverty estimate
6.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Niceville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.7%, 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.
Household income
$96,611
Home value
$381,700
Value / income
4.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C
City profile score · Niceville, FL
57/100
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+
$96,611
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.7%
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).
Niceville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $96,611
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.8%
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.7%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Niceville compare to other US cities?
Niceville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value76% 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 Niceville 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 Niceville near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Niceville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Niceville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#178 of 903
80th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#256 of 894
71st percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#526 of 930
42nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#275 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
76th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Niceville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$381,70024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Niceville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,559 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,940 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.0×, Niceville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,559 of 15,516 and #1,940 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
$96,611Niceville, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Niceville, 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 Niceville, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,043
Median Income
$96,611
Median Home Value
$381,700
Median Age
39.2
Poverty Rate
6.7%
Labor force participation
55.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.8%
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.2°F
Annual Precipitation
73.4"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Niceville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,857 residents
2021
16,053 residents
2022
16,316 residents
2023
16,632 residents
2024
17,879 residents
2025
17,948 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
72
housing units authorized
Single-Family
68
detached homes
Multifamily
4
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
117
117
0
$28.2M
2020
99
99
0
$30.4M
2021
91
78
13
$24.6M
2022
151
147
4
$50.2M
2023
737
127
610
$129.3M
2024
72
68
4
$26.9M
Permit volume decreased 38% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.5%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
2.0%
Work from Home
8.9%
Other
1.9%
Based on 7,412 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 Niceville. 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 Niceville 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 Niceville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Niceville 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.