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SheetFL-RUSKIN-FL · Ruskin, FL 30,074 pop · income 58th 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 Ruskin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Ruskin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bowling Green · lowest
46,719
Bowling Green · lowest
46,719 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #1
Ruskin · this city
76,402
Ruskin · this city
76,402 median HH income
67.4% of the leader · rank #2
Bowers · near
76,406
Bowers · near
76,406 median HH income
67.4% of the leader · rank #3
Spicer · near
76,406
Spicer · near
76,406 median HH income
67.4% of the leader · rank #4
Vega · near
76,406
Vega · near
76,406 median HH income
67.4% of the leader · rank #5
Green Spring · near
76,406
Green Spring · near
76,406 median HH income
67.4% of the leader · rank #6
Summerlin Sou… · highest
113,301
Summerlin Sou… · highest
113,301 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 Ruskin 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: 30,074.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Ruskin places in the 58th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
58th
percentile, household income
61st
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: Ruskin, FL
Ruskin is a small city in Florida, home to 30,074 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $76,402 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.9%. Home values in Ruskin run a median of $278,300, and the median resident age is 34.0 years. About 22.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 8 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. 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. Commute times here average 28.0 minutes, with 73.4% driving alone and 14.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Ruskin'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 work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Ruskin, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Ruskin?
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 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Ruskin?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.0 minutes.
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.
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 8 public schools within the city match. 22.4% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Ruskin?
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 Winter Park (29,929 residents, $98,076 income); Ferry Pass (30,467 residents, $64,368 income); Casselberry (29,473 residents, $57,816 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Summerlin South, NV (30,075 residents); McDonough, GA (30,056 residents); Bowling Green, OH (30,051 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.
Above median income · poverty 9.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Ruskin, FL
41/100
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 C
$76,402
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.9%
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).
Ruskin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 56/100 (C) · $76,402
Bachelor's+ share: 41/100 (D) · 22.4%
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.9%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Ruskin compare to other US cities?
Ruskin measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value61% 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 Ruskin 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 Ruskin near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Ruskin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Ruskin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#357 of 903
60th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#493 of 894
45th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#365 of 930
61st percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#555 of 930
40th 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
58th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Ruskin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$278,30039th percentilemore affordable than 39% 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
Ruskin'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
#9,519 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,632 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Ruskin sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,519 of 15,516 and #1,632 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
$76,402Ruskin, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Ruskin, 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 Ruskin, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
30,074
Median Income
$76,402
Median Home Value
$278,300
Median Age
34.0
Poverty Rate
9.9%
Labor force participation
64.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.4%
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.0 minutes
Drive Alone
73.4%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
14.9%
Other
1.3%
Based on 14,138 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 Ruskin. 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 Ruskin 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 Ruskin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Ruskin 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.