34232 — Fruitville, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 34232. Its median home value runs 13% below Fruitville as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

54out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 35% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
Opportunity1,810th of 3,116 ZIP areas measured50
SchoolsTop 12% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured80
GrowthTop 37% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured57
Housing affordability2,522nd of 3,112 ZIP areas measured50
ClimateTop 13% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured81
Physical resilience3,072nd of 3,127 ZIP areas measured5
AccessTop 15% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured99
Economic stabilityTop 43% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured58
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.1% and median household income $80,795, putting employment conditions in the middle range of ZIP areas measured. The unemployment rate is published for Fruitville, FL, which contains 34232, rather than for 34232 alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 72% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 12% of published profiles for schools.

Residential permitting has slowed: 5,431 units authorized over the past twelve months, 23% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Fruitville, FL, which contains 34232, rather than for 34232 alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
34,013
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$80,795
Top 37% nationally
Density
3,083/sq mi
11 sq mi of land
Median age
48.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fruitville
Florida
Nearest major airport
SRQ
7 mi · Sarasota/Bradenton Intl
Median home value
$359,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Fruitville, FL, which contains 34232, is 5.1% — higher than in all but 24% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Fruitville, FL, which contains 34232, fell 0.5% over the past year, to 191,575 employed residents.

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 75% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsSarasota County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$141,65497th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftSarasota County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$86,76381st percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$5,2892024 ACS 5-Year$80,795Top 37%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,8892024 ACS 5-Year$49,421Top 20%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year11.7%Bottom 43%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.1 min2024 ACS 5-Year25.0 minTop 35%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year36.1%Top 25%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year76.5%52nd percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentFruitville, FL’s figureJuly 2026191,575Top 20%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Fruitville, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.1%Top 47%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Fruitville, FL’s figureJuly 2026−0.5%Top 46%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceFruitville, FL’s figureJuly 2026201,79380th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year84.7%Top 22%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageNorth Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$62,500Bottom 34%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageNorth Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$47,440Bottom 27%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.2%65th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Fruitville, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.7%Bottom 12%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateFruitville, FL’s figureJuly 20265.1%Bottom 24%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year13.2%66th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202481k73k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $80,795 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 — North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons13,420$35,160
Waiters and Waitresses9,200$36,660
General and Operations Managers8,610$94,900
Registered Nurses8,380$86,130
Fast Food and Counter Workers8,330$30,000
Cashiers7,520$31,240

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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 Fruitville, FL, the city containing this ZIP code.

72% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 64% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.7 students for every full-time teacher across 4 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.7
across 4 of them
Math proficiency
71.7%
Top 14% in Florida
Reading proficiency
63.5%
Top 26% in Florida
All 5 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Fruitville Elementary SchoolSARASOTA70413.578%72%
McIntosh Middle SchoolSARASOTA69316.170%57%
Brentwood Elementary SchoolSARASOTA59012.666%60%
Sarasota Academy of the Arts · charterSARASOTA19311.472%67%
Sarasota County Acceleration AcademiesSARASOTA10653.0——

57.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Florida’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 4% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 104.2, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area is up 38% over five years, but down 0.5% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $2,116 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.59% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,170, some 12% above the $1,937 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,170 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $86,800 a year, about 107% of the median household income here of $80,795.

The typical renter household here spends 37% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,937 a month.

A median home at $359,900 costs 3.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $92,120, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
104.2

Prices here run about 4% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
36.8%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.9×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,170
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,937
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$359,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 34232’s median household income of $80,795, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area’s figure2023104.2Bottom 28%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.5%4th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+37.5%32nd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+101.0%59th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.9Bottom 20%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year67.9%26th percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6322024 ACS 5-Year17,46794th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,870Bottom 18%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,810Bottom 19%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,170Bottom 20%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$882024 ACS 5-Year$1,937Bottom 9%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$9,0192024 ACS 5-Year$359,90075th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1252024 ACS 5-Year$2,11653rd percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,4672024 ACS 5-Year$92,120Top 38%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.04%2024 ACS 5-Year0.59%21st percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year36.8%Bottom 14%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±2992024 ACS 5-Year91497th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year5.2%73rd percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.2%45th percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±4432024 ACS 5-Year1,99096th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

57/ 100
Top 37% of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

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.

At 11.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Fruitville, FL, which contains 34232, rather than for 34232 alone.

Units permitted
5,431
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
11.8
Top 9% nationally
Year over year
−23%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
20.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+1.4%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
62%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$141,654
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$86,763
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Manatee County, FL 4,121 people · 13% of arrivals
  2. Charlotte County, FL 2,173 people · 7.1% of arrivals
  3. Hillsborough County, FL 773 people · 2.5% of arrivals
  4. Lee County, FL 740 people · 2.4% of arrivals
  5. Pinellas County, FL 496 people · 1.6% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Manatee County, FL 5,395 people · 21% of departures
  2. Charlotte County, FL 2,434 people · 9.5% of departures
  3. Hillsborough County, FL 975 people · 3.8% of departures
  4. Pinellas County, FL 521 people · 2.0% of departures
  5. Lee County, FL 456 people · 1.8% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Sarasota County, FL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Fruitville, FL, the city containing this ZIP code.

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 52°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 49.0 inches.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SARASOTA BRADENTON AP, 7.5 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND9.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year612024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals49.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals52°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year12024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year442024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals21°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
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. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

5 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, inland flooding and coastal flooding, with hurricane alone responsible for 66% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HurricaneHigh
Coastal floodingModerate
TornadoModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, inland flooding, wildfire, heat wave, strong wind, landslide, drought, earthquake, hail, winter weather, tsunami, volcanic activity, ice storm, avalanche.

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 offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
2.1
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.7
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
11.3
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
21.5
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around 34232 (Sarasota County) rather than 34232 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Fruitville carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Sarasota/Bradenton Intl at 7 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year92.2%Top 35%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle7 miTop 15%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 44%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year5.4%Top 35%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Sarasota/Bradenton IntlSRQ7 mi9,500 ft
St Pete-Clearwater IntlPIE42 mi9,730 ft
Tampa IntlTPA45 mi11,002 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 period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

34232 vs Fruitville

How this ZIP area compares with Fruitville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

34232
Fruitville
Median household income: Fruitville is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$80,795
vs
$82,246
Per capita income: Fruitville is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$49,421
vs
$51,116
Population density
3,083/sq mi
vs
2,223/sq mi
Median home value
$359,900
vs
$412,500
Median gross rent: 34232 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$1,937
vs
$1,977
Homeownership rate
67.9%
vs
57.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher: Fruitville is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
36.1%
vs
40.4%
Poverty rate: Fruitville is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
11.7%
vs
8.2%
Median age
48.1
vs
48.6

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.