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SheetFL-OKEECHOBEE-FL · Okeechobee, FL 5,376 pop · income 20th pct · 12 tracts
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 Okeechobee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Okeechobee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cocoa West · lowest
32,746
Cocoa West · lowest
32,746 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #1
Rexburg · near
50,359
Rexburg · near
50,359 median HH income
31.8% of the leader · rank #2
Sharpsville · near
50,363
Sharpsville · near
50,363 median HH income
31.8% of the leader · rank #3
Okeechobee · this city
50,365
Okeechobee · this city
50,365 median HH income
31.8% of the leader · rank #4
Hackett · near
50,365
Hackett · near
50,365 median HH income
31.8% of the leader · rank #5
Unionville · near
50,371
Unionville · near
50,371 median HH income
31.8% of the leader · rank #6
St. Helena · highest
158,218
St. Helena · highest
158,218 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 Okeechobee 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: 5,376.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Okeechobee lands in the 20th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
20th
percentile, household income
39th
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: Okeechobee, FL
5,376 people live in Okeechobee, Florida - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Okeechobee brings in $50,365 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 16.6%. Typical homes in Okeechobee are valued around $187,400, and the median resident age is 37.7 years. About 20.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 51.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 18 residential building permits were authorized in Okeechobee (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. NOAA puts Okeechobee's yearly average temperature at 74.6°F with 50.3 inches of precipitation per year.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Okeechobee'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 schools and households to work and mobility to within-city variation to housing and income to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Okeechobee, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Okeechobee growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +556 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 18 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.
What does the education layer cover for Okeechobee?
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 13 public schools within the city match. 20.5% 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.
What can 12 Census tracts reveal inside Okeechobee?
PlainCities matches 12 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Okeechobee?
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 Orangetree (5,377 residents, $102,133 income); Tice (5,377 residents, $54,833 income); White (5,373 residents, $96,042 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cramerton, NC (5,376 residents); Centerville, IA (5,377 residents); Cape May Court House, NJ (5,375 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Okeechobee?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.9%. 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.
Drive alone
78.9%
Work from home
7.2%
Public transit
5.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,108 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Okeechobee?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.7×
Home value
$187,400
Household income
$50,365
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Okeechobee?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 74.6°F, with 50.3 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
75.7
Annual precipitation
50.3 in
Mean temperature
74.6°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Okeechobee, FL
25/100
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 F
20.5%
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
$50,365
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Okeechobee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 36/100 (F) · 20.5%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,365
Poverty rate: 20/100 (F) · 16.6%
How does Okeechobee compare to other US cities?
Where Okeechobee sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income20% higher than other cities
Home value39% 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 Okeechobee 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 Okeechobee near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Okeechobee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Okeechobee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#743 of 903
18th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#706 of 894
21st percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#177 of 930
81st percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#594 of 930
36th 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
20th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Okeechobee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$187,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 61% 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
Okeechobee's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,795 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,777 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.7×, Okeechobee sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,795 of 15,516 and #7,777 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$50,365Okeechobee, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Okeechobee, 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 Okeechobee, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,376
Median Income
$50,365
Median Home Value
$187,400
Median Age
37.7
Poverty Rate
16.6%
Labor force participation
51.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.5%
Climate
Avg Temperature
74.6°F
Annual Precipitation
50.3"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Okeechobee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,255 residents
2021
5,349 residents
2022
5,438 residents
2023
5,628 residents
2024
5,742 residents
2025
5,811 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
18
housing units authorized
Single-Family
18
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
18
18
0
$4.7M
2020
9
7
2
$2.3M
2021
13
13
0
$4.1M
2022
21
18
3
$5.7M
2023
9
7
2
$4.0M
2024
18
18
0
$6.6M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.9%
Carpool
5.9%
Public Transit
5.6%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
7.2%
Other
1.8%
Based on 2,108 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 Okeechobee. 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 Okeechobee 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 Okeechobee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Okeechobee 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.