Eustis, Florida

Area Profile

24,119 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Eustis, in Lake County.

65out of 100
Area Score
Top 35% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 43% of 3,904 published cities60
Schools1755th of 2,668 published cities39
GrowthTop 3% of 2,973 published cities83
Housing affordabilityTop 50% of 4,223 published cities81
ClimateTop 14% of 4,223 published cities81
Physical resilience2466th of 4,182 published cities49
Access2608th of 4,226 published cities89
Economic stability2743rd of 4,226 published cities52
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.3% and median household income $65,373, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

In the public schools here, 53% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.6 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 304 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 97% on the prior year.

At a glance

Population
24,119
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$65,373
Bottom 48% nationally
Density
2,070/sq mi
11.7 sq mi of land
Median age
44.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Lake County
Florida
Metro area
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
Nearest major airport
SFB
27 mi · Orlando Sanford Intl
Median home value
$270,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3% is lower than 51% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.4% over the past year, to 11,938 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,599$65,373Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,052$36,510Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.6%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.6 minTop 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher22.2%Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment11,938Bottom 6%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.4%Top 29%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.4%Top 21%June 2026
Labor force12,476Bottom 6%June 2026
Labor force participation60.9%Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,890Bottom 21%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,630Bottom 12%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 29%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.3%Bottom 49%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2024/012024/072025/012025/072026/012026/064.82.8
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.3% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202465k55k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $65,373 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.

53% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 45% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.3%
Top 50% in Florida
Reading proficiency
45.2%
Bottom 25% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
EUSTIS HIGH SCHOOLLAKE1,27419.0
EUSTIS MIDDLE SCHOOLLAKE79016.852%42%
EUSTIS HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE68414.649%42%
SEMINOLE SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE46914.262%57%
EUSTIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE42214.653%44%
ALEE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL · charterLAKE18145.3
LAKE SUCCESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE31.0
LAKE TECHNICAL COLLEGE · charterLAKE0

46.6% 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 $1,135 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.1 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
20.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,135
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$270,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.14Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate70.9%Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±53611,193Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$141$1,135Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,183$270,700Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.8%Top 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate10.0%Top 50%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 →
Development Momentum
83/ 100
Top 3% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 8% since 2020, reaching 25,067 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 12.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
304
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
12.6
Top 9% nationally
Year over year
+97%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202425k23k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
20202022202320242025176137
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+6%).

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 49°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 43.8 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 36, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LEESBURG MUNI AP, 8.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND7.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index50.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation43.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low49°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index36.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing24°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
36
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
50
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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

49 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Strong windElevated
LightningModerate
TornadoModerate
WildfireModerate
HurricaneElevated
LandslideModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, heat wave, earthquake, hail, coastal flooding, drought, winter weather.

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.

Lake County records 2.4 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 15.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 15.1 per 100,000 residents in Lake County.

Homicide
2.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
15.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.3
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 Lake 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 Eustis rather than Eustis 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

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 27 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Orlando Sanford IntlSFB27 mi11,002 ft
Orlando IntlMCO37 mi10,000 ft
Lakeland Linder IntlLAL64 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
OrlandoOrange County319,75859vs Eustis
AlafayaOrange County92,449vs Eustis
KissimmeeOsceola County81,47947vs Eustis
Pine HillsOrange County80,105vs Eustis
PoincianaOsceola County75,068vs Eustis
Horizon WestOrange County67,416vs Eustis
St. CloudOsceola County65,13059vs Eustis
Four CornersOsceola County65,048vs Eustis
SanfordSeminole County63,73059vs Eustis
ApopkaOrange County58,23264vs Eustis
OcoeeOrange County49,03362vs Eustis
Winter GardenOrange County47,87267vs Eustis

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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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 Eustis

3 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3272624,715$63,15264
3273612,688$96,54269
327355,304$68,44166