34142Immokalee, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 34142.

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How this area ranks
Schools3022nd of 4,422 ZIP areas measured37
Housing affordability3957th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured74
ClimateTop 18% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured80
Physical resilience6435th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured10
Access4856th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured85
Economic stability6092nd of 6,742 ZIP areas measured31
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 19% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 5.1 times that income.

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

At a glance

Population
35,149
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$62,333
Bottom 34% nationally
Density
56/sq mi
626.0 sq mi of land
Median age
31.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Immokalee
Florida
Metro area
Naples-Marco Island, FL
Nearest major airport
RSW
33 mi · Southwest Florida Intl
Median home value
$317,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$8,705$62,333Bottom 34%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,759$22,751Bottom 9%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate24.6%Top 11%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute40.5 minTop 7%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher15.7%Bottom 27%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation60.3%Bottom 49%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,040Bottom 32%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,800Bottom 26%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202462k46k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $62,333 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 — 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 47% in Florida
Reading proficiency
39.9%
Bottom 20% 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 $999 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.1 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
19.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$999
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$317,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.10Top 16%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate51.3%Bottom 10%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±65610,613Top 15%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$88$999Bottom 49%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,189$317,800Top 30%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.2%Top 40%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate14.5%Top 39%of 33,0282024 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 93°F and January a low of 53°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 55.3 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 EVERGLADES CITY 5 NE, 28.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND11.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation55.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low53°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°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. 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 offences — they say 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 34142 rather than 34142 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so 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 and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 33 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Southwest Florida IntlRSW33 mi12,000 ft
Dade-Collier Training and TransitionTNT39 mi10,499 ft
Miami-Opa Locka ExecOPF69 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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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.

34142 vs Immokalee

How this ZIP area compares with Immokalee as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

34142
Immokalee
Median household income
$62,333
vs
$48,144
Per capita income
$22,751
vs
$19,032
Population density
56/sq mi
vs
1,160/sq mi
Median home value
$317,800
vs
$210,600
Median gross rent
$999
vs
$941
Homeownership rate
51.3%
vs
39.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.7%
vs
6.0%
Poverty rate
24.6%
vs
28.3%
Median age
31.2
vs
29.7

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.