Princeton, Florida

Area Profile

42,625 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Princeton, in Miami-Dade County.

60out of 100
Area Score
Top 47% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 5% of 4,199 cities measured82
SchoolsTop 29% of 4,162 cities measured66
GrowthTop 41% of 4,224 cities measured54
Housing affordability4,059th of 4,218 cities measured31
ClimateTop 15% of 4,225 cities measured81
Physical resilience3,399th of 4,226 cities measured24
AccessTop 46% of 4,226 cities measured93
Economic stabilityTop 36% of 4,226 cities measured65
The quick read

Princeton ranks in the top 5% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 2.7% and median household income of $83,426. The unemployment rate is published for Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains Princeton, rather than for Princeton alone.

In the public schools here, 69% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 19.0 students for every teacher.

10,803 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 14% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains Princeton, rather than for Princeton alone.

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
42,625
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$83,426
Top 30% nationally
Density
5,747/sq mi
7.4 sq mi of land
Median age
33.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Nearest major airport
MIA
19 mi · Miami Intl
Median home value
$426,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains Princeton, is 2.7%, lower than in 98% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains Princeton, grew 2.0% over the past year, to 1,408,294 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsMiami-Dade County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$127,90294th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftMiami-Dade County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$77,80960th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,4042024 ACS 5-Year$83,426Top 30%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,6082024 ACS 5-Year$29,832Bottom 36%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year9.6%Top 45%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year43.5 minBottom 5%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year28.0%Top 34%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year68.5%25th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentMiami-Dade County, FL’s figureAugust 20261,408,294Top 4%of 4,226August 2026
Employment change (3 years)Miami-Dade County, FL’s figureAugust 2026+1.1%Top 30%of 4,226August 2026
Employment change (year over year)Miami-Dade County, FL’s figureAugust 2026+2.0%Top 9%of 4,226August 2026
Labor forceMiami-Dade County, FL’s figureAugust 20261,446,92096th percentileof 4,226August 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year82.6%Top 33%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageMiami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$67,190Bottom 42%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageMiami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$48,640Bottom 27%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.8%92nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Miami-Dade County, FL’s figureAugust 2026−0.3%Top 38%of 4,226August 2026
Unemployment rateMiami-Dade County, FL’s figureAugust 20262.7%Top 2%of 4,226August 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year14.2%74th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202483k71k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $83,426 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

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 does not publish a labor-market series for this place — true of a consolidated city-county, a city and county sharing one government, or a Puerto Rico municipio, regardless of population. This is the figure for Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains this city.

69% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 62% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.0 students for every full-time teacher across 11 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
68.6%
Top 19% in Florida
Reading proficiency
61.8%
Top 27% in Florida
All 11 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Somerset Academy Silver Palms · charterMIAMI-DADE1,89023.684%79%
Coconut Palm K-8 AcademyMIAMI-DADE1,15918.444%35%
Air Base K-8 Center for International EducationMIAMI-DADE1,13118.090%90%
Somerset Academy Charter High School · charterMIAMI-DADE97138.877%75%
Mandarin Lakes K-8 AcademyMIAMI-DADE64313.737%30%
Somerset Academy Silver Palms at Princeton · charterMIAMI-DADE57421.387%57%
Dr. William A. Chapman Elementary SchoolMIAMI-DADE51515.667%62%
Goulds Elementary SchoolMIAMI-DADE49714.247%37%
Summerville Advantage Academy · charterMIAMI-DADE42016.254%48%
South Prep Scholars Academy · charterMIAMI-DADE13819.7——
Miami Macarthur Educational CenterMIAMI-DADE975.710%10%

69.4% 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 12% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 112.1, 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 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division is up 68% over five years, and up 1.3% 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 $4,577 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.07% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,289, some 39% above the $1,647 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,289 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $91,600 a year, about 110% of the median household income here of $83,426.

The typical renter household here spends 44% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,647 a month.

A median home at $426,900 costs 4.4 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $96,667, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
112.1

Prices here run about 12% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, 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
44.1%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.4×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,289
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,647
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$426,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Princeton’s median household income of $83,426, 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro Area’s figure2023112.1Bottom 19%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+1.3%26th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+67.7%99th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+142.0%98th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.52024 ACS 5-Year4.4Bottom 13%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year69.3%36th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±7352024 ACS 5-Year12,73895th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,879Bottom 23%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,939Bottom 21%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,289Bottom 21%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1652024 ACS 5-Year$1,647Bottom 16%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$17,1472024 ACS 5-Year$426,90084th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$3762024 ACS 5-Year$4,57787th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$11,0842024 ACS 5-Year$96,667Top 30%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.10%2024 ACS 5-Year1.07%56th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year44.1%Bottom 8%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±322024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year2.3%23rd percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1492024 ACS 5-Year29984th 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

54/ 100
Top 41% 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.

75% of the 10,803 units permitted over the past twelve months are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses. The multifamily share is published for Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains Princeton, rather than for Princeton alone.

Federal tax returns show Miami-Dade County, which contains Princeton, lost about 1.9% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $127,902, above the $77,809 of households that moved out.

At 3.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Miami-Dade County, FL, which contains Princeton, rather than for Princeton alone.

Units permitted
11K
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.9
Top 37% nationally
Year over year
−14%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
75.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
−1.9%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
53%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$127,902
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$77,809
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Broward County, FL 16,821 people · 26% of arrivals
  2. Palm Beach County, FL 2,634 people · 4.0% of arrivals
  3. New York County, NY 2,031 people · 3.1% of arrivals
  4. Orange County, FL 1,524 people · 2.3% of arrivals
  5. Los Angeles County, CA 1,515 people · 2.3% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Broward County, FL 29,098 people · 28% of departures
  2. Palm Beach County, FL 4,446 people · 4.2% of departures
  3. Lee County, FL 3,807 people · 3.6% of departures
  4. Orange County, FL 3,362 people · 3.2% of departures
  5. Hillsborough County, FL 2,603 people · 2.5% 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 Miami-Dade 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 Princeton, FL is not one. This is the figure for Miami-Dade 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 91°F and January a low of 57°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 56.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and about 4 days a year pass 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 MIAMI KENDALL TAMIAMI EXEC AP, 7.7 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND8.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year612024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals56.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals57°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year42024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year482024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals17°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
48
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
4
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

24 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and cold wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 43% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HurricaneElevated
Coastal floodingModerate
Cold waveElevated

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

Miami-Dade County records 4.4 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 7.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.6 per 100,000 residents in Miami-Dade County.

Homicide
4.4
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.2
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
7.6
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
8.5
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 Princeton (Miami-Dade County) rather than Princeton 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 Miami Intl at 19 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year95.7%Top 21%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle19 miBottom 47%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 45%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year4.3%Top 32%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Miami IntlMIA19 mi13,016 ft
Miami-Opa Locka ExecOPF26 mi8,002 ft
Dade-Collier Training and TransitionTNT38 mi10,499 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 County459,74557Miami vs Princeton
HialeahMiami-Dade County226,16555Hialeah vs Princeton
Fort LauderdaleBroward County185,60447Fort Lauderdale vs Princeton
Pembroke PinesBroward County173,19446
HollywoodBroward County155,08245
MiramarBroward County138,60054
Coral SpringsBroward County136,10347
West Palm BeachPalm Beach County122,29051
Pompano BeachBroward County114,14743
Miami GardensMiami-Dade County113,17747
DavieBroward County108,34650
Boca RatonPalm Beach County100,23451

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
August 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 Princeton

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Princeton with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3303265,132$73,429$424,20057