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SheetFL-ST-AUGUSTINE-SHORES-FL · St. Augustine Shores, FL 9,921 pop · income 53rd 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 St. Augustine Shores
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Augustine Shores on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Avon Park · lowest
36,845
Avon Park · lowest
36,845 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #1
Hawthorne · near
72,719
Hawthorne · near
72,719 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #2
Lamar · near
72,721
Lamar · near
72,721 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #3
St. Augustine… · this city
72,724
St. Augustine… · this city
72,724 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #4
Wrightsville · near
72,727
Wrightsville · near
72,727 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #5
Cross Plains · near
72,734
Cross Plains · near
72,734 median HH income
69.1% of the leader · rank #6
Ellisville · highest
105,276
Ellisville · highest
105,276 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 St. Augustine Shores 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: 9,921.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, St. Augustine Shores places in the 53rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
53rd
percentile, household income
63rd
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: St. Augustine Shores, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 9,921 residents in St. Augustine Shores, a small town within Florida. Households in St. Augustine Shores report a median income of $72,724 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.2%. St. Augustine Shores's housing stock carries a median value of $290,000, and the median resident age is 51.6 years. Educational attainment runs 30.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 52.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. 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 St. Augustine Shores'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 housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Augustine Shores, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Augustine Shores?
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 Bee Ridge (9,921 residents, $79,375 income); Green Cove Springs (9,937 residents, $66,907 income); West Perrine (9,944 residents, $59,213 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sparta, WI (9,921 residents); Brentwood, PA (9,927 residents); Mission, KS (9,928 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 St. Augustine Shores?
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 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in St. Augustine Shores?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 60.4%. 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. 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.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C-
City profile score · St. Augustine Shores, FL
53/100
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 B+
3.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$72,724
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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).
St. Augustine Shores profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 77/100 (B+) · 3.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.8%
Household income: 52/100 (C-) · $72,724
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does St. Augustine Shores compare to other US cities?
Where St. Augustine Shores sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income53% higher than other cities
Home value63% 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 St. Augustine Shores 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 St. Augustine Shores near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Augustine Shores ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Augustine Shores only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#393 of 903
56th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#460 of 894
49th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#748 of 930
19th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#412 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
53rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How St. Augustine Shores's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$290,00037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
St. Augustine Shores's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,668 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,344 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.0×, St. Augustine Shores sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,668 of 15,516 and #8,344 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
$72,724St. Augustine Shores, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Augustine Shores, 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 St. Augustine Shores, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,921
Median Income
$72,724
Median Home Value
$290,000
Median Age
51.6
Poverty Rate
3.2%
Labor force participation
52.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
60.4%
Carpool
22.6%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
15.4%
Based on 4,519 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 St. Augustine Shores. 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 St. Augustine Shores 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 St. Augustine Shores sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Augustine Shores 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.