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SheetFL-WINDERMERE-FL · Windermere, FL 3,034 pop · income 95th 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 Windermere
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Windermere on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Milaca · lowest
49,063
Milaca · lowest
49,063 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #1
North Merrick · near
156,023
North Merrick · near
156,023 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Windermere · this city
156,042
Windermere · this city
156,042 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Penn Wynne · near
156,056
Penn Wynne · near
156,056 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Crosswicks · near
156,063
Crosswicks · near
156,063 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Martell · near
156,094
Martell · near
156,094 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Turnersville · highest
156,176
Turnersville · highest
156,176 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 Windermere 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: 3,034.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Windermere lands in the 95th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
95th
percentile, household income
96th
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: Windermere, FL
Windermere is a small town in Florida, home to 3,034 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Windermere households earn a median of $156,042 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.9%. Home values in Windermere run a median of $906,600, and the median resident age is 52.7 years. 69.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 56.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 7 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Florida at 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Windermere'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 to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Windermere, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Windermere?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 69.7% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Windermere?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Windermere?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 61.2%. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Windermere?
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 Indialantic (3,033 residents, $90,991 income); North Sarasota (3,041 residents, $73,099 income); Holmes Beach (3,042 residents, $99,063 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Dadeville, AL (3,034 residents); Crest, CA (3,034 residents); Milaca, MN (3,033 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.
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.
Population change
Is Windermere growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +183 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.8% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
3,161
2025 estimate
3,344
Period change
+5.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
B+
City profile score · Windermere, FL
77/100
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 A+
$156,042
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
69.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.9%
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).
Windermere profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 98/100 (A+) · $156,042
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 69.7%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 1.9%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Windermere compare to other US cities?
Here's how Windermere stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income95% higher than other cities
Home value96% 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 Windermere 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 Windermere near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Windermere ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Windermere only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#20 of 903
98th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#29 of 894
97th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#810 of 930
13th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#20 of 930
98th 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
95th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Windermere's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$906,6004th percentilemore affordable than 4% 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
Windermere's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,924 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,354 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.8×, Windermere sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,924 of 15,516 and #10,354 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$156,042Windermere, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Windermere, 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 Windermere, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)69.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,034
Median Income
$156,042
Median Home Value
$906,600
Median Age
52.7
Poverty Rate
1.9%
Labor force participation
56.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
69.7%
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Windermere's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,161 residents
2021
3,137 residents
2022
3,222 residents
2023
3,296 residents
2024
3,338 residents
2025
3,344 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
61.2%
Carpool
1.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
36.4%
Other
0.6%
Based on 1,370 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 Windermere. 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 Windermere 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 Windermere sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Windermere 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.