Immokalee, Florida

Area Profile

26,361 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Immokalee, in Collier County.

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How this area ranks
Schools1910th of 2,668 cities measured35
Housing affordability2681st of 4,223 cities measured72
ClimateTop 12% of 4,223 cities measured82
Physical resilience4018th of 4,182 cities measured10
AccessTop 50% of 4,226 cities measured92
Economic stability3441st of 4,226 cities measured41
The quick read

In the public schools here, 54% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 17.4 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.4 times that income.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, inland flooding and cold wave.

At a glance

Population
26,361
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$48,144
Bottom 20% nationally
Density
1,160/sq mi
22.7 sq mi of land
Median age
29.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Collier County
Florida
Metro area
Naples-Marco Island, FL
Nearest major airport
RSW
22 mi · Southwest Florida Intl
Median home value
$210,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Median household income of $48,144 is below 80% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$4,971$48,144Bottom 20%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,851$19,032Bottom 8%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate28.3%Top 12%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute39.9 minTop 8%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher6.0%Bottom 12%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation66.2%Top 30%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,040Bottom 27%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,800Bottom 22%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202448k40k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $48,144 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 — Naples-Marco Island, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons6,830$35,380
Waiters and Waitresses6,610$37,550
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers4,610$38,600
General and Operations Managers4,440$102,310
Fast Food and Counter Workers3,920$33,830
Cooks, Restaurant3,650$41,220

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.

54% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 40% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
13
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.5%
Top 49% in Florida
Reading proficiency
39.9%
Bottom 16% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
IMMOKALEE HIGH SCHOOLCOLLIER1,99023.7
IMMOKALEE MIDDLE SCHOOLCOLLIER1,40220.361%32%
LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOLLIER71714.945%42%
EDEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOLLIER64614.740%37%
HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOLLIER59912.758%63%
PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOLLIER58413.959%41%
VILLAGE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOLLIER51113.845%35%
RCMA IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY ACADEMY · charterCOLLIER33515.262%45%
THE PHOENIX PROGRAM-IMMOKALEECOLLIER9748.5
THE PACE PROGRAMCOLLIER5413.510%
IMMOKALEE TEEN PARENTING PROGCOLLIER4040.0
NEW BEGINNINGS IMMOKALEECOLLIER3015.0

73.4% 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

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Median rent of $941 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.4 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
4.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$941
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$210,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.37Top 22%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate39.7%Bottom 4%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4427,336Top 8%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$89$941Bottom 46%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,687$210,600Top 44%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.5%Top 23%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate10.8%Top 47%of 32,0012024 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 54°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 42, 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 FT MYERS SW FL RGNL AP, 22.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND10.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation53.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low54°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index42.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing19°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
42
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
55
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

10 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, inland flooding and cold wave.

LightningModerate
HurricaneHigh
WildfireModerate
Cold waveHigh
Inland floodingElevated
Coastal floodingModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, tornado, drought, strong wind, earthquake, hail.

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.

Collier 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 9.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.9 per 100,000 residents in Collier County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
7.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.4
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 Collier 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 Immokalee rather than Immokalee 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 22 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Southwest Florida IntlRSW22 mi12,000 ft
Dade-Collier Training and TransitionTNT51 mi10,499 ft
Miami-Opa Locka ExecOPF79 mi8,002 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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Other cities in Naples-Marco Island, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Golden GateCollier County29,234vs Immokalee
NaplesCollier County19,70456vs Immokalee
Marco IslandCollier County16,20555vs Immokalee

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 Immokalee

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3414235,149$62,333