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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-TAMPA-FL · Tampa, FL 393,389 pop · income 51st pct · 335 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 Tampa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tampa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hialeah · lowest
53,079
Hialeah · lowest
53,079 median HH income
62.9% of the leader · rank #1
Alvarado · near
71,296
Alvarado · near
71,296 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #2
Meeker · near
71,301
Meeker · near
71,301 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #3
Tampa · this city
71,302
Tampa · this city
71,302 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #4
Summerhill · near
71,304
Summerhill · near
71,304 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #5
Swanton · near
71,307
Swanton · near
71,307 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #6
Aurora · highest
84,320
Aurora · highest
84,320 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Tampa on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 393,389.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Tampa - the verdict
Tampa ranks in the 51st percentile for household income and the 35th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
51st
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
35th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Tampa, FL
393,389 people live in Tampa, Florida - a mid-sized U.S. city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Tampa brings in $71,302 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.6%. Typical homes in Tampa are valued around $375,300, and the median resident age is 35.6 years. 44.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2,546 residential building permits were authorized in Tampa (Construction Slowdown), down 47% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1910.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 74.5°F with 49.5 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Workers in Tampa report an average commute of 19.9 minutes, with 66.1% driving alone and 19.3% working from home. 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 Tampa'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 climate and hazard context to within-city variation to reported crime to work and mobility to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Tampa, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Tampa?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Miami (446,663 residents, $59,390 income); Orlando (311,732 residents, $69,268 income); St. Petersburg (260,646 residents, $73,118 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Arlington, TX (394,769 residents); Wichita, KS (396,488 residents); Aurora, CO (390,201 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
How far does income reach against housing in Tampa?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.6%, 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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 74.5°F, with 49.5 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.
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.
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.
PlainCities matches 335 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Tampa?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1910.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 16% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1465.3
Violent rate
444.6
Total reported rate
1910.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 66.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.9 minutes.
Public transit
1.3%
Work from home
19.3%
Drive alone
66.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 199,958 workers age 16+.
The NCES join finds 170 public schools within the city match. 44.6% 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.
Matched public schools
170
Bachelor's degree+
44.6%
Poverty estimate
11.6%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 +24,899 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2,546 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+6.4%
2025 estimate
413,554
2020 estimate
388,655
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 11.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Tampa, FL
40/100
5 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 B+
44.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$71,302
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.6%
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 F
445 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Tampa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.6%
Household income: 51/100 (C-) · $71,302
Poverty rate: 33/100 (F) · 11.6%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 445 /100k
Where Tampa sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Tampa's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Tampa highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Tampa, FL (this city): home $375,300, crime 1,910/100k
Arlington, TX : home $276,400, crime 2,896/100k
Wichita, KS : home $179,500, crime 2,842/100k
Aurora, CO : home $444,500, crime 4,052/100k
Bakersfield, CA : home $347,300, crime 3,024/100k
Tulsa, OK : home $189,600, crime 4,569/100k
Miami, FL : home $475,200, crime 3,468/100k
St. Petersburg, FL : home $331,500, crime 3,079/100k
How does Tampa compare to other US cities?
Tampa measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income51% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety35% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Florida alone, Tampa ranks #65 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Tampa 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 Tampa near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tampa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tampa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#409 of 903
55th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#269 of 894
70th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#292 of 930
68th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#189 of 930
80th 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
51st percentile nationally for median household income · 35th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Tampa's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Tampa's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Tampa's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$375,30025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Tampa's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,267 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#76 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 5.3×, Tampa sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,267 of 15,516 and #76 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
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
$71,302Tampa, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tampa, 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 Tampa, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
393,389
Median Income
$71,302
Median Home Value
$375,300
Median Age
35.6
Poverty Rate
11.6%
Labor force participation
62.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1910.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
444.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1465.3
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
74.5°F
Annual Precipitation
49.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
170
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Tampa's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
388,655 residents
2021
393,838 residents
2022
402,378 residents
2023
410,079 residents
2024
412,981 residents
2025
413,554 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2,546
housing units authorized
Single-Family
912
detached homes
Multifamily
1,634
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4,777
1,159
3,618
$834.1M
2020
3,333
1,308
2,025
$802.9M
2021
2,405
1,312
1,093
$604.9M
2022
4,810
1,058
3,752
$1125.7M
2023
3,153
738
2,415
$598.6M
2024
2,546
912
1,634
$862.5M
Permit volume decreased 47% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.9 minutes
Drive Alone
66.1%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
1.3%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
19.3%
Other
2.8%
Based on 199,958 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 Tampa. 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 Tampa 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 Tampa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tampa 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, FBI UCR, 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.