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SheetFL-ORCHID-FL · Orchid, FL 553 pop · income 92nd 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 Orchid
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Orchid on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Wiscon · lowest
31,850
Wiscon · lowest
31,850 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #1
Eastern Golet… · near
136,839
Eastern Golet… · near
136,839 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
North Scituate · near
136,852
North Scituate · near
136,852 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Orchid · this city
136,875
Orchid · this city
136,875 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lakeland Shor… · near
136,875
Lakeland Shor… · near
136,875 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Westbury · near
136,917
Westbury · near
136,917 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Mulford · highest
136,923
Mulford · highest
136,923 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 Orchid 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: 553.
Orchid ranks in the 92nd percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
92nd
percentile, household income
99th
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: Orchid, FL
553 people live in Orchid, Florida - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $136,875 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Orchid's published median home value is $2,000,000+, the Census ACS ceiling for owner-occupied units rather than a precise appraisal, and the median resident age is 67.3 years. About 91.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 43.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 100% from five years earlier.
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. 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 Orchid'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Orchid, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Orchid?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Lake Mystic (556 residents, $58,375 income); Beverly Beach (564 residents, $43,864 income); Altha (567 residents, $32,898 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bainbridge, IN (553 residents); Howard, KS (553 residents); Pretty Prairie, KS (553 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Orchid?
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 77.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Orchid?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 14.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, 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. 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.
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 +32 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
Note: Census ACS censors the tails of median household income ($250,000+ / under $2,500) and median home value ($2,000,000+ / under $10,000).
Home value is shown as $2,000,000+ for the same reason.
B+
City profile score · Orchid, FL
75/100
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 A+
91.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$136,875
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
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).
Orchid profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 91.3%
Household income: 92/100 (A+) · $136,875
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Orchid compare to other US cities?
Orchid measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value99% 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 Orchid 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 Orchid near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Orchid ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Orchid only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#45 of 903
95th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#1 of 894
99th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#793 of 930
14th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1 of 930
100th 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
92nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Orchid's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$2,000,000+1st percentilemore affordable than 1% 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
Orchid's home-value-to-income ratio: 14.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,489 of 15,516
More affordable than 0% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,303 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 14.6×, Orchid sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,489 of 15,516 and #11,303 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
$136,875Orchid, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Orchid, 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 Orchid, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)91.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)43.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
553
Median Income
$136,875
Median Home Value
$2,000,000+
Median Age
67.3
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
43.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
91.3%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Orchid's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
522 residents
2021
528 residents
2022
535 residents
2023
556 residents
2024
550 residents
2025
554 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.8M
2020
1
1
0
$1.4M
2021
3
3
0
$4.6M
2022
12
12
0
$20.8M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
2
2
0
$10.2M
Permit volume increased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.4%
Carpool
1.6%
Public Transit
4.9%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
13.2%
Other
2.9%
Based on 243 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 Orchid. 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 Orchid 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 Orchid sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Orchid 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 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.