Lealman, Florida

Area Profile

20,567 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Lealman, in Pinellas County.

47out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 11% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
Opportunity3,854th of 4,199 cities measured32
Schools3,744th of 4,162 cities measured18
GrowthTop 38% of 4,224 cities measured55
Housing affordability3,206th of 4,218 cities measured53
ClimateTop 10% of 4,225 cities measured83
Physical resilience3,087th of 4,226 cities measured34
AccessTop 16% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stability3,407th of 4,226 cities measured38
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 4.4% and the Opportunity signal places Lealman in the bottom 8%. The unemployment rate is published for Pinellas County, FL, which contains Lealman, rather than for Lealman alone.

In the public schools here, 33% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 12.0 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 35% of renter income here, above the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.0 times what its owners earn.

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
20,567
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$45,308
Bottom 16% nationally
Density
5,112/sq mi
4 sq mi of land
Median age
43.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Nearest major airport
PIE
6 mi · St Pete-Clearwater Intl
Median home value
$196,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Pinellas County, FL, which contains Lealman, is 4.4% — higher than in all but 47% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Pinellas County, FL, which contains Lealman, fell 1.2% over the past year, to 471,450 employed residents.

Median household income of $45,308 is lower than in 84% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsPinellas County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$95,63777th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftPinellas County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$74,68655th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$2,9862024 ACS 5-Year$45,308Bottom 16%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,6332024 ACS 5-Year$27,813Bottom 29%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year16.0%Bottom 32%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.9 min2024 ACS 5-Year25.8 minTop 45%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year17.8%Bottom 43%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year75.1%43rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentPinellas County, FL’s figureJuly 2026471,450Top 16%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Pinellas County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−5.1%Bottom 4%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Pinellas County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−1.2%Bottom 40%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forcePinellas County, FL’s figureJuly 2026492,90583rd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year77.7%Bottom 48%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageTampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$66,490Bottom 39%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageTampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$48,940Bottom 32%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.8%2024 ACS 5-Year1.0%85th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Pinellas County, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.6%Bottom 12%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment ratePinellas County, FL’s figureJuly 20264.4%Bottom 47%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year6.9%46th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202446k41k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $45,308 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 — Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons45,130$33,790
Registered Nurses38,720$85,470
General and Operations Managers35,700$103,670
Customer Service Representatives34,150$42,660
Fast Food and Counter Workers33,910$29,260
Cashiers25,820$30,290

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 Pinellas County, FL, which contains this city.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 30% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.0 students for every full-time teacher across 4 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
33.1%
Bottom 1% in Florida
Reading proficiency
29.5%
Bottom 1% in Florida
All 4 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
New Heights Elementary SchoolPINELLAS66613.332%31%
Lealman Avenue Elementary SchoolPINELLAS37111.239%32%
John M. Sexton Elementary SchoolPINELLAS35513.150%41%
Lealman Innovation AcademyPINELLAS3079.69%10%

73.4% 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 102.5, 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 St. Petersburg-Clearwater-Largo, FL Metropolitan Division is up 44% over five years, but down 0.1% 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 $1,379 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.70% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,852, some 49% above the $1,247 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,852 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $74,100 a year, about 164% of the median household income here of $45,308.

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 $1,247 a month.

A median home at $196,400 costs 4.0 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $48,719, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
102.5

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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, 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
34.5%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.0×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,852
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,247
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$196,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Lealman’s median household income of $45,308, 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area’s figure2023102.5Bottom 48%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the St. Petersburg-Clearwater-Largo, FL Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2−0.1%7th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the St. Petersburg-Clearwater-Largo, FL Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+43.6%52nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the St. Petersburg-Clearwater-Largo, FL Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+131.7%96th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.62024 ACS 5-Year4.0Bottom 17%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year62.9%25th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5082024 ACS 5-Year10,59194th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,587Bottom 38%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,368Bottom 39%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,852Bottom 40%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$882024 ACS 5-Year$1,247Bottom 30%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,7152024 ACS 5-Year$196,40052nd percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1832024 ACS 5-Year$1,37938th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,6022024 ACS 5-Year$48,719Bottom 11%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.11%2024 ACS 5-Year0.70%29th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year34.5%Bottom 22%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±2462024 ACS 5-Year59997th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year5.7%82nd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year10.2%65th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3652024 ACS 5-Year1,68197th 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

55/ 100
Top 38% 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.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Pinellas County, which contains Lealman, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $95,637, above the $74,686 of households that moved out.

At 4.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Pinellas County, FL, which contains Lealman, rather than for Lealman alone.

Units permitted
3,901
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.0
Top 35% nationally
Year over year
+78%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
58.2%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.2%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
57%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$95,637
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$74,686
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Hillsborough County, FL 7,164 people · 15% of arrivals
  2. Pasco County, FL 3,407 people · 7.3% of arrivals
  3. Manatee County, FL 978 people · 2.1% of arrivals
  4. Orange County, FL 832 people · 1.8% of arrivals
  5. Miami-Dade County, FL 598 people · 1.3% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Hillsborough County, FL 7,423 people · 16% of departures
  2. Pasco County, FL 6,976 people · 15% of departures
  3. Manatee County, FL 1,716 people · 3.6% of departures
  4. Hernando County, FL 992 people · 2.1% of departures
  5. Polk County, FL 791 people · 1.7% 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 Pinellas County, FL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Lealman, FL is not one. This is the figure for Pinellas 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 90°F and January a low of 55°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 46.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and about 3 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 ST PETERSBURG AP, 5.3 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND8.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year602024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals46.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals55°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year32024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year482024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals22°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
48
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
60
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
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

34 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, inland flooding and tornado, with hurricane alone responsible for 36% 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.

LightningModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
HurricaneElevated

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, cold wave, inland flooding, heat wave, hail, wildfire, earthquake, strong wind, drought, landslide, 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. 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.

Pinellas County records 2.9 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 12.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 22.7 per 100,000 residents in Pinellas County.

Homicide
2.9
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.2
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
22.7
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
17.6
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 Lealman (Pinellas County) rather than Lealman 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest St Pete-Clearwater Intl at 6 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year84.5%Bottom 30%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle6 miTop 13%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 45%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year11.6%Bottom 31%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
St Pete-Clearwater IntlPIE6 mi9,730 ft
Tampa IntlTPA14 mi11,002 ft
Sarasota/Bradenton IntlSRQ30 mi9,500 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
TampaHillsborough County401,61855Tampa vs Lealman
St. PetersburgPinellas County262,73254St. Petersburg vs Lealman
Spring HillHernando County119,98350Spring Hill vs Lealman
BrandonHillsborough County119,76752
ClearwaterPinellas County117,24746
RiverviewHillsborough County113,69754
Town 'n' CountryHillsborough County85,92852
LargoPinellas County82,61748
Wesley ChapelPasco County76,01161
Palm HarborPinellas County61,51256
Pinellas ParkPinellas County53,56048
UniversityHillsborough County48,12746

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)
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.

ZIP codes in Lealman

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Lealman 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 Lealman 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
3371419,227$47,487$199,700—