32828Alafaya, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 32828.

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How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 23% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured73
Housing affordability3961st of 6,685 ZIP areas measured74
ClimateTop 17% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured80
Physical resilience4266th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured46
AccessTop 16% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured99
Economic stabilityTop 21% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured75
The quick read

In the public schools here, 68% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.5 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.2 times that income.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
69,202
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$101,767
Top 18% nationally
Density
3,323/sq mi
20.8 sq mi of land
Median age
36.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Alafaya
Florida
Metro area
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
Nearest major airport
MCO
11 mi · Orlando Intl
Median home value
$432,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

53% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 90% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,043$101,767Top 18%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,265$42,101Top 33%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.6%Bottom 40%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute34.9 minTop 18%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher53.3%Top 10%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation70.5%Top 14%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,890Bottom 26%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,630Bottom 15%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024102k89k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $101,767 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons49,970$32,290
Waiters and Waitresses36,820$35,410
Customer Service Representatives35,690$40,530
Fast Food and Counter Workers34,830$28,620
Registered Nurses30,150$83,550
Cashiers29,340$31,330

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

68% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 68% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
67.8%
Top 15% in Florida
Reading proficiency
67.7%
Top 15% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
TIMBER CREEK HIGHORANGE3,38323.7
TIMBER SPRINGS MIDDLEORANGE1,06719.167%67%
DISCOVERY MIDDLEORANGE81418.962%62%
AVALON MIDDLEORANGE79118.873%73%
STONE LAKES ELEMENTARYORANGE61715.877%72%
TIMBER LAKES ELEMENTARYORANGE61016.179%75%
CASTLE CREEK ELEMENTARYORANGE55514.245%47%
AVALON ELEMENTARYORANGE55315.479%80%
CAMELOT ELEMENTARYORANGE54515.152%59%
WATERFORD ELEMENTARYORANGE53216.672%70%
SUNRISE ELEMENTARYORANGE45613.872%74%
PINECREST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY · charterORANGE13

26.5% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Florida’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,966 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
101.6

Prices here run about 2% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
23.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,966
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$432,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index101.6Top 46%of 6,0712023
Home price to income4.25Top 25%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate63.7%Bottom 20%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,11725,944Top 1%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$86$1,966Top 9%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,931$432,100Top 17%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.2%Top 20%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.0%Bottom 17%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 92°F and January a low of 52°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ORLANDO EXECUTIVE AP, 10.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation51.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low52°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing22°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
58
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

46 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, cold wave and tornado.

Strong windHigh
Cold waveModerate
TornadoModerate
HailModerate
HurricaneElevated
WildfireModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, inland flooding, heat wave, earthquake, landslide, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Orange County records 3.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 8.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.6 per 100,000 residents in Orange County.

Homicide
3.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Orange County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 32828 rather than 32828 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Orlando IntlMCO11 mi10,000 ft
Orlando Sanford IntlSFB18 mi11,002 ft
Melbourne Orlando IntlMLB43 mi10,181 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

32828 vs Alafaya

How this ZIP area compares with Alafaya as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

32828
Alafaya
Median household income
$101,767
vs
$100,950
Per capita income
$42,101
vs
$41,632
Population density
3,323/sq mi
vs
3,018/sq mi
Median home value
$432,100
vs
$425,500
Median gross rent
$1,966
vs
$1,999
Homeownership rate
63.7%
vs
64.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
53.3%
vs
50.0%
Poverty rate
8.6%
vs
9.3%
Median age
36.7
vs
37.1

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.