32824Meadow Woods, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 32824.

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How this area ranks
Schools2358th of 4,422 published ZIP areas50
Housing affordability5094th of 6,685 published ZIP areas61
ClimateTop 18% of 6,789 published ZIP areas80
Physical resilience4266th of 6,709 published ZIP areas46
AccessTop 8% of 6,791 published ZIP areas99
Economic stabilityTop 38% of 6,742 published ZIP areas66
The quick read

In the public schools here, 54% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.3 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 27% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.7 times that income.

A major airport is 4 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
58,368
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$84,841
Top 32% nationally
Density
1,743/sq mi
33.5 sq mi of land
Median age
38.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Meadow Woods
Florida
Metro area
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
Nearest major airport
MCO
4 mi · Orlando Intl
Median home value
$396,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 75% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,936$84,841Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,683$34,188Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.5%Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute33.7 minTop 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher36.1%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation70.0%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,890Bottom 26%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,630Bottom 15%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202485k68k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $84,841 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.

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

There are 18.3 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
54.5%
Top 43% in Florida
Reading proficiency
54.0%
Top 46% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
CYPRESS CREEK HIGHORANGE3,12723.9
SOUTH CREEK MIDDLEORANGE1,00620.551%56%
WETHERBEE ELEMENTARYORANGE93916.870%67%
MEADOW WOODS MIDDLEORANGE83317.749%42%
STONEWYCK ELEMENTARYORANGE66015.7
WYNDHAM LAKES ELEMENTARYORANGE59214.859%59%
MEADOW WOODS ELEMENTARYORANGE57114.643%42%
SOUTHWOOD ELEMENTARYORANGE48115.051%59%
OAKSHIRE ELEMENTARYORANGE46515.557%55%
SALLY RIDE ELEMENTARYORANGE39913.852%47%

39.6% 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 $1,895 takes 27% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
26.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,895
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$396,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.68Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate75.9%Bottom 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,13820,909Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$155$1,895Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$20,588$396,700Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.8%Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.2%Top 46%2024 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 92°F and January a low of 50°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.4 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 INTL AP, 3.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation51.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low50°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

46 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Strong windHigh
Cold waveModerate
TornadoModerate
HailModerate
HurricaneElevated
WildfireModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, inland flooding, heat wave, 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. 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.

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 32824 rather than 32824 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

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

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Orlando IntlMCO4 mi10,000 ft
Orlando Sanford IntlSFB28 mi11,002 ft
Melbourne Orlando IntlMLB47 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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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.

32824 vs Meadow Woods

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

32824
Meadow Woods
Median household income
$84,841
vs
$82,744
Per capita income
$34,188
vs
$34,404
Population density
1,743/sq mi
vs
3,836/sq mi
Median home value
$396,700
vs
$401,000
Median gross rent
$1,895
vs
$1,906
Homeownership rate
75.9%
vs
72.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
36.1%
vs
38.5%
Poverty rate
8.5%
vs
8.4%
Median age
38.4
vs
37.4

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.