34668Bayonet Point, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 34668.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity5425th of 6,210 published ZIP areas34
Schools4198th of 4,422 published ZIP areas15
Housing affordability5775th of 6,685 published ZIP areas51
ClimateTop 9% of 6,789 published ZIP areas86
Physical resilience5887th of 6,709 published ZIP areas18
Access4050th of 6,791 published ZIP areas90
Economic stability6290th of 6,742 published ZIP areas28
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.1% and the Opportunity signal places 34668 in the bottom 13%.

Rent takes 35% of median household income here, at or above the threshold conventionally called cost-burdened.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, coastal flooding and wildfire.

At a glance

Population
49,442
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$47,401
Bottom 12% nationally
Density
3,187/sq mi
15.5 sq mi of land
Median age
40.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Bayonet Point
Florida
Metro area
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Nearest major airport
TPA
24 mi · Tampa Intl
Median home value
$191,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.1% is lower than 25% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 285,895 employed residents.

Median household income of $47,401 is below 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,173$47,401Bottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,112$27,566Bottom 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate18.1%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.4 minTop 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher14.5%Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment285,895Top 17%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.1%Top 35%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 45%June 2026
Labor force301,307Top 17%June 2026
Labor force participation52.1%Bottom 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,490Bottom 44%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,940Bottom 36%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.9%Top 9%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.1%Top 25%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202447k40k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $47,401 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 — Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons45,130$33,790
Registered Nurses38,720$85,470
General and Operations Managers35,700$103,670
Customer Service Representatives34,150$42,660
Fast Food and Counter Workers33,910$29,260
Cashiers25,820$30,290

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Bayonet Point, FL, the city containing this ZIP code.

28% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 31% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.1 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
28.2%
Bottom 4% in Florida
Reading proficiency
31.2%
Bottom 5% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
GULF HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPASCO68914.128%32%
FOX HOLLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPASCO63616.320%26%
CHASCO MIDDLE SCHOOLPASCO62217.837%37%
CHASCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPASCO61213.027%31%

72.5% 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 →

Median rent of $1,391 takes 35% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
35.2%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,391
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$191,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.04Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate62.8%Bottom 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±87323,969Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$43$1,391Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$8,337$191,600Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income35.2%Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate13.5%Top 42%2024 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

9 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.9 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO CO AP, 19.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND9.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation51.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months91991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing24°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

18 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, coastal flooding and wildfire.

HurricaneElevated
WildfireModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, inland flooding, heat wave, strong wind, earthquake, landslide, hail, 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.

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.

Crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. Reported crime is also easy to misread: agency participation varies year to year, and a city that draws a large daytime workforce carries incidents its residents did not generate.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 24 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tampa IntlTPA24 mi11,002 ft
St Pete-Clearwater IntlPIE27 mi9,730 ft
Lakeland Linder IntlLAL47 mi8,500 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)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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)
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

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.

34668 vs Bayonet Point

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

34668
Bayonet Point
Median household income
$47,401
vs
$42,524
Per capita income
$27,566
vs
$31,133
Population density
3,187/sq mi
vs
4,193/sq mi
Median home value
$191,600
vs
$177,000
Median gross rent
$1,391
vs
$1,336
Homeownership rate
62.8%
vs
71.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.5%
vs
14.6%
Poverty rate
18.1%
vs
19.0%
Median age
40.9
vs
49.0

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.