Midway, Florida

Area Profile

21,317 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Midway, in Santa Rosa County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity2287th of 3,904 cities measured52
SchoolsTop 18% of 2,668 cities measured76
Housing affordabilityTop 45% of 4,223 cities measured83
ClimateTop 21% of 4,223 cities measured78
Physical resilience3499th of 4,182 cities measured22
Access3364th of 4,226 cities measured78
Economic stability2316th of 4,226 cities measured58
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.8% and median household income $96,041, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Rent takes 21% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.0 times that income.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, lightning and coastal flooding.

At a glance

Population
21,317
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$96,041
Top 21% nationally
Density
1,774/sq mi
12.0 sq mi of land
Median age
42.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Santa Rosa County
Florida
Metro area
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
Nearest major airport
CEW
39 mi · Bob Sikes
Median home value
$381,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.8% is lower than 32% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.7% over the past year, to 87,796 employed residents.

37% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 78% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,360$96,041Top 21%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,415$48,639Top 19%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.9%Bottom 33%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.8 minTop 27%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher37.0%Top 22%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment87,796Top 41%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.1%Bottom 30%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.7%Top 48%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force92,244Top 41%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation64.5%Top 36%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$58,620Bottom 10%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,240Bottom 9%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.7%Top 19%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.8%Top 32%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202496k79k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $96,041 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 — Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers6,970$28,360
Retail Salespersons6,720$31,870
Registered Nurses5,070$77,890
Cashiers4,690$29,910
Waiters and Waitresses4,260$35,340
Office Clerks, General4,160$39,960

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 Santa Rosa County, FL, which contains this city.

77% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 65% 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
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
77.0%
Top 6% in Florida
Reading proficiency
65.0%
Top 21% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
WOODLAWN BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLSANTA ROSA88220.079%59%
ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSANTA ROSA76515.075%72%

34.5% 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 $1,645 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
20.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,645
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$381,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.97Top 28%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate78.7%Top 44%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5629,672Top 6%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$254$1,645Top 17%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,324$381,600Top 19%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.6%Top 37%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate14.8%Top 34%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 63.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 46, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CHACTAW NOLF MILTON, 7.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index60.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation63.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index46.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing30°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
46
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
60
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

22 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, lightning and coastal flooding.

HurricaneElevated
LightningModerate
Coastal floodingModerate

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

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.

Santa Rosa 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 16.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 15.3 per 100,000 residents in Santa Rosa County.

Homicide
3.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
15.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.7
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 Santa Rosa 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 Midway rather than Midway 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 39 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Bob SikesCEW39 mi8,006 ft
Northwest Florida Beaches IntlECP72 mi10,000 ft
Mobile RgnlMOB76 mi8,502 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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PensacolaEscambia County54,03653vs Midway
NavarreSanta Rosa County39,838vs Midway
Ferry PassEscambia County30,053vs Midway
BellviewEscambia County26,488vs Midway
PaceSanta Rosa County26,282vs Midway
BrentEscambia County23,813vs Midway
EnsleyEscambia County23,760vs Midway
West PensacolaEscambia County20,665vs Midway
WarringtonEscambia County15,918vs Midway
Myrtle GroveEscambia County15,595vs Midway
East MiltonSanta Rosa County14,783vs Midway
GonzalezEscambia County14,458vs Midway

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 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
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 Midway

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3256330,364$100,396