East Lake, Florida

Area Profile

33,283 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for East Lake, in Pinellas County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 8% of 2,668 published cities85
Housing affordability3029th of 4,223 published cities66
ClimateTop 13% of 4,223 published cities81
Physical resilience3051st of 4,182 published cities34
AccessTop 23% of 4,226 published cities97
Economic stability2662nd of 4,226 published cities53
The quick read

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.9 times that income.

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

A major airport is 14 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
33,283
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$99,333
Top 19% nationally
Density
1,162/sq mi
28.6 sq mi of land
Median age
51.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Pinellas County
Florida
Metro area
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Nearest major airport
TPA
14 mi · Tampa Intl
Median home value
$488,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

49% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,897$99,333Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,388$57,957Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.2%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.8 minTop 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher49.4%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation54.4%Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,490Bottom 39%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,940Bottom 32%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202499k86k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $99,333 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.

84% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 81% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.7 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
84.2%
Top 1% in Florida
Reading proficiency
80.6%
Top 1% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
EAST LAKE HIGH SCHOOLPINELLAS1,98020.8
CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPINELLAS67615.787%84%
BROOKER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPINELLAS50115.782%80%
EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERINGPINELLAS39219.692%82%
PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS · charterPINELLAS34911.674%75%

19.6% 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 $1,942 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.9 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
23.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,942
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$488,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.91Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate83.2%Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±55415,010Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$120$1,942Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$22,353$488,000Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.5%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.3%Bottom 44%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

8 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 53°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 49.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and about 3 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 TAMPA INTL AP, 14.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND9.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index60.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation49.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low53°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index48.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing22°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
48
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
60
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
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

34 / 100
Physical resilience

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

LightningModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
HurricaneElevated

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Pinellas County records 3.0 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 11.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 22.8 per 100,000 residents in Pinellas County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
22.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.3
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 Pinellas 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 East Lake rather than East Lake 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
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences 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. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
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 14 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tampa IntlTPA14 mi11,002 ft
St Pete-Clearwater IntlPIE15 mi9,730 ft
Lakeland Linder IntlLAL42 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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Other cities in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
TampaHillsborough County401,61856vs East Lake
St. PetersburgPinellas County262,73256vs East Lake
Spring HillHernando County119,983vs East Lake
BrandonHillsborough County119,767vs East Lake
ClearwaterPinellas County117,24749vs East Lake
RiverviewHillsborough County113,697vs East Lake
Town 'n' CountryHillsborough County85,928vs East Lake
LargoPinellas County82,61750vs East Lake
Wesley ChapelPasco County76,011vs East Lake
Palm HarborPinellas County61,512vs East Lake
Pinellas ParkPinellas County53,56051vs East Lake
UniversityHillsborough County48,127vs East Lake

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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)
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.

ZIP codes in East Lake

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3468518,132$94,688
346888,522$112,091