Goldenrod, Florida

Area Profile

12,878 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Goldenrod, in Orange County.

55out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 36% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
Opportunity2,733rd of 4,199 cities measured49
Schools2,706th of 4,162 cities measured38
Growth2,278th of 4,224 cities measured48
Housing affordability3,112th of 4,218 cities measured54
ClimateTop 17% of 4,225 cities measured80
Physical resilience2,525th of 4,226 cities measured48
AccessTop 17% of 4,226 cities measured98
Economic stability2,304th of 4,226 cities measured55
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.6% and median household income $67,563, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Orange County, FL, which contains Goldenrod, rather than for Goldenrod alone.

In the public schools here, 52% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 20.3 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 8,979 units authorized over the past twelve months, 21% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Orange County, FL, which contains Goldenrod, rather than for Goldenrod 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
12,878
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$67,563
Top 49% nationally
Density
5,102/sq mi
2.5 sq mi of land
Median age
31.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Nearest major airport
SFB
12 mi · Orlando Sanford Intl
Median home value
$358,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Orange County, FL, which contains Goldenrod, is 4.6% — higher than in all but 40% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Orange County, FL, which contains Goldenrod, fell 0.5% over the past year, to 782,399 employed residents.

38% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 80% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$11,0022024 ACS 5-Year$67,563Top 49%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,7622024 ACS 5-Year$36,375Top 42%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year14.0%Bottom 38%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year28.8 minBottom 39%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year38.4%Top 20%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year67.7%23rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentOrange County, FL’s figureJuly 2026782,399Top 8%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Orange County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−1.7%Bottom 28%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Orange County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−0.5%Top 45%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceOrange County, FL’s figureJuly 2026820,28892nd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year85.4%Top 23%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageOrlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$61,890Bottom 21%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageOrlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$46,630Bottom 13%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Orange County, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.6%Bottom 15%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateOrange County, FL’s figureJuly 20264.6%Bottom 40%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year16.9%80th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202468k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $67,563 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

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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Orange County, FL, which contains this city.

52% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 60% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 20.3 students for every full-time teacher across 7 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
20.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
51.6%
Bottom 26% in Florida
Reading proficiency
59.9%
Top 31% in Florida
All 7 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Winter Park HighORANGE3,27723.153%67%
Lake Howell High SchoolSEMINOLE2,24122.043%55%
Eastbrook Elementary SchoolSEMINOLE64514.362%57%
Lakemont ElementaryORANGE62916.171%68%
Brookshire ElementaryORANGE60814.167%64%
Aloma ElementaryORANGE50917.061%62%
Aloma High Charter · charterORANGE44740.610%17%

37.8% 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 2% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 101.6, 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area is up 45% over five years, and up 0.8% 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 $2,088 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.58% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,070, some 19% above the $1,734 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,070 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $82,800 a year, about 123% of the median household income here of $67,563.

The typical renter household here spends 35% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,734 a month.

A median home at $358,700 costs 3.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $92,969, above the historic benchmark of about 3 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.

Published for the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, 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
34.8%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.9×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,070
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,734
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$358,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Goldenrod’s median household income of $67,563, 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2023101.6Top 48%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+0.8%15th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+45.4%59th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+120.6%88th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.92024 ACS 5-Year3.9Bottom 19%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year47.8%8th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4812024 ACS 5-Year5,89490th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,820Bottom 26%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,600Bottom 32%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,070Bottom 30%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$532024 ACS 5-Year$1,734Bottom 13%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$9,1422024 ACS 5-Year$358,70079th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1952024 ACS 5-Year$2,08858th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$22,6482024 ACS 5-Year$92,969Top 33%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.06%2024 ACS 5-Year0.58%18th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±9%2024 ACS 5-Year34.8%Bottom 21%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±242024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.5%47th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1492024 ACS 5-Year38187th percentileof 32,3302024 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

48/ 100
Ranks 2,278 of 4,224 published city 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 6.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Orange County, FL, which contains Goldenrod, rather than for Goldenrod alone.

Units permitted
8,979
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.1
Top 23% nationally
Year over year
−21%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
58.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Goldenrod, FL is not one. This is the figure for Orange County, FL, which contains this city.

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, 5.3 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND8.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year582024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals51.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals52°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year22024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year412024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals22°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. 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

48 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 47% of it. Inland flooding and tornado are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

Strong windHigh
HurricaneElevated
WildfireModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, inland flooding, heat wave, earthquake, hail, landslide, drought, winter weather, coastal flooding, 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. 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 offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Orange County records 3.7 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 9.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.5 per 100,000 residents in Orange County.

Homicide
3.7
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.0
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
12.5
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
10.5
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 Goldenrod (Orange County) rather than Goldenrod 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. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way 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
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

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Orlando Sanford Intl at 12 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year93.6%Top 32%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle12 miTop 32%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle7Top 13%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.4%Top 27%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Orlando Sanford IntlSFB12 mi11,002 ft
Orlando IntlMCO13 mi10,000 ft
Melbourne Orlando IntlMLB53 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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Other cities in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
OrlandoOrange County319,75856Orlando vs Goldenrod
AlafayaOrange County92,44962Alafaya vs Goldenrod
KissimmeeOsceola County81,47944Kissimmee vs Goldenrod
Pine HillsOrange County80,10547
PoincianaOsceola County75,06845
Horizon WestOrange County67,41661
St. CloudOsceola County65,13053
Four CornersOsceola County65,04851
SanfordSeminole County63,73057
ApopkaOrange County58,23257
OcoeeOrange County49,03356
Winter GardenOrange County47,87259

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.

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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)
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
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
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.

ZIP codes in Goldenrod

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Goldenrod with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Goldenrod closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3279252,976$69,200$374,200—