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SheetFL-NOKOMIS-FL · Nokomis, FL 3,391 pop · income 9th 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 Nokomis
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Nokomis on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Goulding · lowest
27,299
Goulding · lowest
27,299 median HH income
24.0% of the leader · rank #1
Raoul · near
41,328
Raoul · near
41,328 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #2
Nokomis · this city
41,333
Nokomis · this city
41,333 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #3
Gordon · near
41,333
Gordon · near
41,333 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Arthur · near
41,333
Lake Arthur · near
41,333 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #5
Kilmichael · near
41,333
Kilmichael · near
41,333 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #6
Loxahatchee G… · highest
113,654
Loxahatchee G… · highest
113,654 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 Nokomis 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: 3,391.
Nationally, Nokomis sits in the 9th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
9th
percentile, household income
50th
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: Nokomis, FL
Florida's Nokomis is a small town, with 3,391 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Nokomis households earn a median of $41,333 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 12.8%. Nokomis's housing stock carries a median value of $225,100, and the median resident age is 56.5 years. 17.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 1 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Nokomis'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 schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Nokomis, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Nokomis?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 17.9% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Nokomis?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.9%. 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Nokomis?
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 Ponce Inlet (3,392 residents, $100,313 income); Eagle Lake (3,382 residents, $70,208 income); Loxahatchee Groves (3,405 residents, $113,654 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Enochville, NC (3,392 residents); Desert View Highlands, CA (3,389 residents); New Haven, MO (3,389 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Nokomis?
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 5.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 12.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Nokomis, FL
22/100
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 F
12.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Household income F
$41,333
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).
Nokomis profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 29/100 (F) · 12.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.9%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 9/100 (F) · $41,333
How does Nokomis compare to other US cities?
Here's how Nokomis stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income9% higher than other cities
Home value50% 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 Nokomis 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 Nokomis near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Nokomis ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Nokomis only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#841 of 903
7th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#633 of 894
29th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#255 of 930
72nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#655 of 930
29th 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
9th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Nokomis's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$225,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 50% 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
Nokomis's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,502 of 15,516
More affordable than 13% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,108 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.4×, Nokomis sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,502 of 15,516 and #10,108 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$41,333Nokomis, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Nokomis, 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 Nokomis, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,391
Median Income
$41,333
Median Home Value
$225,100
Median Age
56.5
Poverty Rate
12.8%
Labor force participation
55.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.9%
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.9%
Carpool
17.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
11.2%
Other
4.2%
Based on 1,757 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 Nokomis. 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 Nokomis 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 Nokomis sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Nokomis 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.