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SheetFL-SEFFNER-FL · Seffner, FL 8,498 pop · income 69th 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 Seffner
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Seffner on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Westgate · lowest
50,441
Westgate · lowest
50,441 median HH income
34.4% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Arrowhead · near
88,147
Lake Arrowhead · near
88,147 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #2
Seffner · this city
88,167
Seffner · this city
88,167 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #3
McDonald · near
88,171
McDonald · near
88,171 median HH income
60.2% of the leader · rank #4
South Woodsto… · near
88,182
South Woodsto… · near
88,182 median HH income
60.2% of the leader · rank #5
Flowery Branch · near
88,185
Flowery Branch · near
88,185 median HH income
60.2% of the leader · rank #6
Malverne · highest
146,585
Malverne · highest
146,585 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 Seffner 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: 8,498.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Seffner places in the 69th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
69th
percentile, household income
66th
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: Seffner, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 8,498 residents in Seffner, a small town within Florida. The typical household in Seffner brings in $88,167 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.1%. Seffner's housing stock carries a median value of $306,600, and the median resident age is 38.7 years. 30.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 10 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. 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 Seffner'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Seffner, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Seffner?
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 30.9% 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Seffner?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.1%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Seffner?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.6%. 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 Seffner?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Fruitland Park (8,482 residents, $78,359 income); Wedgefield (8,556 residents, $120,440 income); Miramar Beach (8,587 residents, $97,159 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Swissvale, PA (8,499 residents); Malverne, NY (8,496 residents); Temperance, MI (8,495 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.
Above median income · poverty 5.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C
City profile score · Seffner, FL
55/100
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-
$88,167
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
5.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.9%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Seffner profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 67/100 (B-) · $88,167
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.9%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Seffner compare to other US cities?
Here's how Seffner stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value66% 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 Seffner 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 Seffner near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Seffner ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Seffner only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#244 of 903
73rd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#419 of 894
53rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#616 of 930
33rd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#407 of 930
56th 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Seffner's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$306,60034th percentilemore affordable than 34% 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
Seffner's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,880 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,174 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.5×, Seffner sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,880 of 15,516 and #7,174 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
$88,167Seffner, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Seffner, 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 Seffner, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,498
Median Income
$88,167
Median Home Value
$306,600
Median Age
38.7
Poverty Rate
5.1%
Labor force participation
62.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.9%
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.6%
Carpool
11.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
18.2%
Other
0.9%
Based on 4,168 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 Seffner. 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 Seffner 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 Seffner sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Seffner 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.