North Lauderdale, Florida

Area Profile

45,234 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for North Lauderdale, in Broward County.

39out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 1% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3072nd of 3,904 published cities42
Schools2626th of 2,668 published cities9
Growth2768th of 2,973 published cities19
Housing affordability4125th of 4,223 published cities34
ClimateTop 14% of 4,223 published cities81
Physical resilience3579th of 4,182 published cities21
AccessTop 8% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stabilityTop 39% of 4,226 published cities65
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.3% and the Opportunity signal places North Lauderdale in the bottom 21%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 0 units authorized over the past twelve months, 100% below the prior year.

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

At a glance

Population
45,234
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$63,326
Bottom 45% nationally
Density
9,787/sq mi
4.6 sq mi of land
Median age
37.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Broward County
Florida
Metro area
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Nearest major airport
FLL
11 mi · Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Intl
Median home value
$307,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3% is lower than 51% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.2% over the past year, to 25,919 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,719$63,326Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,769$27,879Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate14.0%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute32.8 minTop 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher21.8%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment25,919Bottom 33%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.6%Bottom 13%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.2%Bottom 41%June 2026
Labor force27,090Bottom 33%June 2026
Labor force participation73.9%Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$67,190Bottom 42%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,640Bottom 27%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.7%Top 19%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.3%Bottom 49%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/066.22.4
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.3% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202463k49k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $63,326 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 — Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons91,370$34,330
General and Operations Managers74,960$105,640
Customer Service Representatives63,440$39,560
Registered Nurses61,670$91,380
Office Clerks, General61,160$44,730
Waiters and Waitresses57,830$36,070

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.

30% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 39% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 21.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
21.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
29.5%
Bottom 5% in Florida
Reading proficiency
38.7%
Bottom 15% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOLBROWARD72922.817%32%
SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL AT NORTH LAUDER · charterBROWARD70833.722%34%
NORTH BROWARD ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE · charterBROWARD66519.637%48%
BROADVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBROWARD63617.729%38%
NORTH LAUDERDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBROWARD60520.225%32%
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBROWARD55115.759%52%
MORROW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBROWARD51217.725%31%
IMAGINE CHARTER SCHOOL AT NORTH LAUDERDALE ELEMENTARY · charterBROWARD41620%27%
NORTH BROWARD ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE MIDDLE · charterBROWARD37321.937%57%
SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH AT NORTH LAUDERDA · charterBROWARD34958.2

71.5% 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 $2,081 takes 39% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
39.4%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,081
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$307,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.85Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate60.1%Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±73116,396Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$82$2,081Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,461$307,100Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income39.4%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.6%Bottom 27%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 →
Development Momentum
19/ 100
Ranks 2768 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, 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 4% since 2020, reaching 46,335 in 2024.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
−100%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202446k44k
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
20202022202320242025110.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−27%).

Weather & climate

8 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 59°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 56.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 47, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FT LAUDERDALE EXECUTIVE AP, 3.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation56.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low59°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index47.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing16°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
47
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
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

21 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HurricaneElevated
Inland floodingModerate
WildfireModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, heat wave, tornado, strong wind, landslide, earthquake, drought, hail.

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.

Broward County records 3.8 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 8.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.7 per 100,000 residents in Broward County.

Homicide
3.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.8
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 Broward 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 North Lauderdale rather than North Lauderdale 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 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood IntlFLL11 mi8,000 ft
Miami-Opa Locka ExecOPF21 mi8,002 ft
Miami IntlMIA29 mi13,016 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
MiamiMiami-Dade County459,74553vs North Lauderdale
HialeahMiami-Dade County226,16552vs North Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleBroward County185,60448vs North Lauderdale
Pembroke PinesBroward County173,19446vs North Lauderdale
HollywoodBroward County155,08245vs North Lauderdale
MiramarBroward County138,60054vs North Lauderdale
Coral SpringsBroward County136,10349vs North Lauderdale
West Palm BeachPalm Beach County122,29051vs North Lauderdale
Pompano BeachBroward County114,14744vs North Lauderdale
Miami GardensMiami-Dade County113,17745vs North Lauderdale
DavieBroward County108,34650vs North Lauderdale
Boca RatonPalm Beach County100,23454vs North Lauderdale

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 North Lauderdale

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3306854,439$64,05139