Maitland, Florida

Area Profile

19,469 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Maitland, in Orange County.

60out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 48% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 33% of 3,904 cities measured64
SchoolsTop 35% of 2,668 cities measured64
Growth2424th of 2,973 cities measured31
Housing affordability3466th of 4,223 cities measured58
ClimateTop 17% of 4,223 cities measured80
Physical resilience2535th of 4,182 cities measured48
AccessTop 21% of 4,226 cities measured98
Economic stabilityTop 40% of 4,226 cities measured65
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.5% and median household income $97,150, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.4 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 26% of it.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
19,469
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$97,150
Top 20% nationally
Density
3,632/sq mi
5.4 sq mi of land
Median age
35.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Orange County
Florida
Metro area
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
Nearest major airport
SFB
13 mi · Orlando Sanford Intl
Median home value
$523,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.5% is lower than 43% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.4% over the past year, to 790,403 employed residents.

58% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 93% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,329$97,150Top 20%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,822$63,094Top 9%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.4%Bottom 48%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.3 minBottom 42%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher58.3%Top 7%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment790,403Top 6%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.7%Bottom 38%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.4%Top 22%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force827,643Top 6%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation75.1%Top 8%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,890Bottom 21%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,630Bottom 12%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.7%Top 19%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.5%Top 43%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202497k84k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $97,150 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

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.

63% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 61% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.3 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
62.7%
Top 26% in Florida
Reading proficiency
61.3%
Top 31% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
MAITLAND MIDDLEORANGE78621.862%62%
DOMMERICH ELEMENTARYORANGE61117.089%85%
LAKE SYBELIA ELEMENTARYORANGE43715.651%48%
HUNGERFORD ELEMENTARYORANGE28114.127%28%
LA AMISTADORANGE338.3

36.0% 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 $2,071 takes 26% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.4 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
25.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,071
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$523,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.39Top 12%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate44.4%Bottom 6%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±53410,017Top 6%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$72$2,071Top 8%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$53,309$523,200Top 11%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.6%Top 15%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate10.4%Top 48%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 →
Development Momentum
31/ 100
Ranks 2424 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing — 3 consecutive years, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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.

Population has grown 2% since 2020, reaching 19,776 in 2024.

Permit activity has fallen for 3 consecutive years.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
4
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.2
Bottom 13% nationally
Year over year
0%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202420k19k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020222023202420252343.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+33%).

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, 6.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation51.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low52°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing22°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. 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

48 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Strong windHigh
TornadoModerate
HurricaneElevated
WildfireModerate
Cold waveModerate

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

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.

Orange County records 3.6 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 8.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.6 per 100,000 residents in Orange County.

Homicide
3.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.2
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 Orange 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 Maitland rather than Maitland 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 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Orlando Sanford IntlSFB13 mi11,002 ft
Orlando IntlMCO14 mi10,000 ft
Melbourne Orlando IntlMLB57 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 County319,75859vs Maitland
AlafayaOrange County92,449vs Maitland
KissimmeeOsceola County81,47947vs Maitland
Pine HillsOrange County80,105vs Maitland
PoincianaOsceola County75,068vs Maitland
Horizon WestOrange County67,416vs Maitland
St. CloudOsceola County65,13059vs Maitland
Four CornersOsceola County65,048vs Maitland
SanfordSeminole County63,73059vs Maitland
ApopkaOrange County58,23264vs Maitland
OcoeeOrange County49,03362vs Maitland
Winter GardenOrange County47,87267vs Maitland

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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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 Maitland

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3275122,103$95,38761