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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-WINTER-PARK-FL · Winter Park, FL 29,929 pop · income 77th 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 Winter Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Winter Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Paragould · lowest
56,181
Paragould · lowest
56,181 median HH income
22.5% of the leader · rank #1
Jimmerson Lake · near
98,060
Jimmerson Lake · near
98,060 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #2
San Leandro · near
98,063
San Leandro · near
98,063 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #3
Victor · near
98,068
Victor · near
98,068 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #4
Winter Park · this city
98,076
Winter Park · this city
98,076 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #5
Clear Lake CD… · near
98,098
Clear Lake CD… · near
98,098 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #6
Wellesley · highest
250,001
Wellesley · highest
250,001 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 Winter Park 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: 29,929.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Winter Park - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Winter Park lands in the 77th percentile for household income and the 28th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
92nd
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
28th
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: Winter Park, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 29,929 residents in Winter Park, a small city within Florida. Winter Park households earn a median of $98,076 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.7%. Home values in Winter Park run a median of $676,800, and the median resident age is 44.2 years. About 63.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 70 residential building permits were authorized in Winter Park (Construction Slowdown), down 30% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2180.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). 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 Winter Park'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 housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Winter Park, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Winter Park?
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 6.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Winter Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2180.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Winter Park?
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.
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Ruskin (30,074 residents, $76,402 income); Casselberry (29,473 residents, $57,816 income); Ferry Pass (30,467 residents, $64,368 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Greenville, TX (29,936 residents); Paragould, AR (29,940 residents); Fridley, MN (29,944 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Winter Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.4%. 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.
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 Winter Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +426 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 70 housing units authorized in 2024. 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
30,018
2025 estimate
30,444
Period change
+1.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Winter Park?
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 8 public schools within the city match. 63.6% 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.
Poverty estimate
3.7%
Bachelor's degree+
63.6%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C+
City profile score · Winter Park, FL
62/100
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 A+
63.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$98,076
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
204 /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.
Winter Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 63.6%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,076
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.7%
Violent crime: 47/100 (D) · 204 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Winter Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Winter Park'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 - Winter Park highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Winter Park, FL (this city): home $676,800, crime 2,181/100k
Greenville, TX : home $197,400, crime 1,424/100k
Paragould, AR : home $175,400, crime 3,813/100k
Fridley, MN : home $277,100, crime 3,327/100k
Wellesley, MA : home $1,513,400, crime 532/100k
Algonquin, IL : home $324,000, crime 1,238/100k
Matthews, NC : home $406,800, crime 2,839/100k
Casselberry, FL : home $272,600, crime 2,872/100k
Miami Lakes, FL : home $577,300, crime 1,415/100k
How does Winter Park compare to other US cities?
Where Winter Park sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value92% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety28% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Florida and the picture shifts: Winter Park ranks #73 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Winter Park 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 Winter Park near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Winter Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Winter Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#169 of 903
81st percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#60 of 894
93rd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#712 of 930
22nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#37 of 930
96th 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 28th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Winter Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Winter Park'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 Winter Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$676,8008th percentilemore affordable than 8% 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
Winter Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,629 of 15,516
More affordable than 6% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,095 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.9×, Winter Park sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,629 of 15,516 and #3,095 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$98,076Winter Park, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Winter Park, 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 Winter Park, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)63.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
29,929
Median Income
$98,076
Median Home Value
$676,800
Median Age
44.2
Poverty Rate
3.7%
Labor force participation
53.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
63.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2180.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
204.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1976.4
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Winter Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
30,018 residents
2021
29,812 residents
2022
30,263 residents
2023
30,580 residents
2024
30,577 residents
2025
30,444 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
70
housing units authorized
Single-Family
70
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
100
98
2
$53.0M
2020
104
98
6
$69.7M
2021
103
100
3
$60.9M
2022
106
102
4
$91.4M
2023
66
64
2
$59.5M
2024
70
70
0
$70.2M
Permit volume decreased 30% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.4%
Carpool
3.5%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
2.3%
Work from Home
25.9%
Other
1.2%
Based on 13,600 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 Winter Park. 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 Winter Park 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 Winter Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Winter Park 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.