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SheetFL-TARPON-SPRINGS-FL · Tarpon Springs, FL 25,522 pop · income 48th 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 Tarpon Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tarpon Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fajardo zona… · lowest
24,305
Fajardo zona… · lowest
24,305 median HH income
18.5% of the leader · rank #1
Emden · near
68,875
Emden · near
68,875 median HH income
52.4% of the leader · rank #2
Kincaid · near
68,875
Kincaid · near
68,875 median HH income
52.4% of the leader · rank #3
Tarpon Springs · this city
68,877
Tarpon Springs · this city
68,877 median HH income
52.4% of the leader · rank #4
Park Center · near
68,882
Park Center · near
68,882 median HH income
52.4% of the leader · rank #5
Ridgetop · near
68,884
Ridgetop · near
68,884 median HH income
52.4% of the leader · rank #6
Nocatee · highest
131,488
Nocatee · highest
131,488 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 Tarpon Springs 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: 25,522.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Tarpon Springs - the verdict
Nationally, Tarpon Springs sits in the 48th percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
48th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
37th
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: Tarpon Springs, FL
Tarpon Springs is a small city in Florida, home to 25,522 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Tarpon Springs brings in $68,877 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.3%. Home values in Tarpon Springs run a median of $321,000, and the median resident age is 55.7 years. Educational attainment runs 32.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 49.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 38 residential building permits were authorized in Tarpon Springs (Construction Slowdown), down 57% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Tarpon Springs reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1791.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Tarpon Springs'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 reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist 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 Tarpon Springs, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Tarpon Springs?
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 1791.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 21% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Tarpon Springs?
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 72.7%. 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 Tarpon Springs?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.3%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Tarpon Springs?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Nocatee (25,581 residents, $131,488 income); South Bradenton (25,585 residents, $47,914 income); Immokalee (25,624 residents, $46,143 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fajardo zona urbana, PR (25,524 residents); Okemos, MI (25,503 residents); Stevens Point, WI (25,497 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Tarpon Springs?
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 32.5% 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
10
Bachelor's degree+
32.5%
Poverty estimate
5.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Tarpon Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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 +488 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 38 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
+1.9%
2025 estimate
25,602
2020 estimate
25,114
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 5.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Tarpon Springs, FL
47/100
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.
Poverty rate C+
5.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$68,877
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
237 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Tarpon Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 62/100 (C+) · 32.5%
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $68,877
Violent crime: 42/100 (D) · 237 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Tarpon Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Tarpon Springs'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 - Tarpon Springs highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
Tarpon Springs, FL (this city): home $321,000, crime 1,792/100k
Stevens Point, WI : home $189,700, crime 783/100k
Xenia, OH : home $147,300, crime 1,739/100k
Peekskill, NY : home $376,800, crime 1,181/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Tarpon Springs compare to other US cities?
Where Tarpon Springs sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety37% 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, Tarpon Springs ranks #60 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 Tarpon Springs 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 Tarpon Springs near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tarpon Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tarpon Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#443 of 903
51st percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#389 of 894
56th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#605 of 930
34th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#373 of 930
60th 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
48th percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Tarpon Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Tarpon Springs'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 Tarpon Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$321,00032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Tarpon Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,300 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,445 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Tarpon Springs sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,300 of 15,516 and #2,445 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
$68,877Tarpon Springs, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tarpon Springs, 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 Tarpon Springs, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,522
Median Income
$68,877
Median Home Value
$321,000
Median Age
55.7
Poverty Rate
5.3%
Labor force participation
49.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1791.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
237.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1554.4
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.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Tarpon Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,114 residents
2021
25,584 residents
2022
25,906 residents
2023
25,941 residents
2024
25,967 residents
2025
25,602 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
38
housing units authorized
Single-Family
38
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
88
88
0
$23.5M
2020
289
53
236
$48.0M
2021
174
111
63
$34.1M
2022
74
74
0
$23.4M
2023
163
161
2
$43.7M
2024
38
38
0
$12.6M
Permit volume decreased 57% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.7%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
19.1%
Other
2.2%
Based on 11,064 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 Tarpon Springs. 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 Tarpon Springs 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 Tarpon Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tarpon Springs 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, 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.