34957Jensen Beach, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 34957.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity4670th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured42
Housing affordability5891st of 6,685 ZIP areas measured49
ClimateTop 9% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured86
Physical resilience6061st of 6,709 ZIP areas measured13
Access5501st of 6,791 ZIP areas measured78
Economic stability6376th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured26
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.9% and the Opportunity signal places 34957 in the bottom 25%.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.9 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 28% of it.

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

At a glance

Population
23,462
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$70,403
Bottom 48% nationally
Density
1,434/sq mi
16.4 sq mi of land
Median age
57.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Jensen Beach
Florida
Metro area
Port St. Lucie, FL
Nearest major airport
DJT
42 mi · President Donald J Trump Intl
Median home value
$416,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.9% is lower than 31% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.8% over the past year, to 67,533 employed residents.

38% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 77% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$4,678$70,403Bottom 48%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,322$50,735Top 19%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.2%Top 42%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.9 minTop 38%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher38.1%Top 23%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment67,533Top 43%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.4%Bottom 16%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 48%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force71,037Top 43%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation49.6%Bottom 19%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,230Bottom 16%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,490Bottom 14%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.7%Top 21%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.9%Top 31%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202470k62k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $70,403 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 — Port St. Lucie, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons6,210$34,020
Registered Nurses5,310$82,090
Fast Food and Counter Workers4,690$29,130
Waiters and Waitresses4,050$36,250
Cashiers4,050$30,540
General and Operations Managers3,850$94,910

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 Jensen Beach, FL, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 19.1 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
JENSEN BEACH HIGH SCHOOLMARTIN1,72221.0
JENSEN BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMARTIN61115.366%67%

40.9% 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 $1,649 takes 28% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.9 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
28.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,649
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$416,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.92Top 10%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate76.2%Bottom 43%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±71017,380Top 6%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$113$1,649Top 17%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$21,118$416,700Top 19%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income28.1%Top 8%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate35.6%Top 11%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

9 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 51°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.2 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, 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 PIERCE ST LUCIE CO INTL AP, 17.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index53.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation51.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low51°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months91991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index39.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing19°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
53
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

13 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HurricaneHigh
Strong windModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, wildfire, inland flooding, tornado, heat wave, coastal flooding, drought, hail, earthquake, landslide.

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. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Martin 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 14.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.6 per 100,000 residents in Martin County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.1
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 Martin 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 34957 rather than 34957 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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 42 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
President Donald J Trump IntlDJT42 mi10,001 ft
Melbourne Orlando IntlMLB62 mi10,181 ft
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood IntlFLL83 mi8,000 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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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
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.

34957 vs Jensen Beach

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

34957
Jensen Beach
Median household income
$70,403
vs
$70,884
Per capita income
$50,735
vs
$51,303
Population density
1,434/sq mi
vs
1,797/sq mi
Median home value
$416,700
vs
$411,700
Median gross rent
$1,649
vs
$1,267
Homeownership rate
76.2%
vs
77.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
38.1%
vs
36.0%
Poverty rate
12.2%
vs
16.7%
Median age
57.0
vs
56.3

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.