Rotonda, Florida

Area Profile

10,352 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Rotonda, in Charlotte County.

49out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 18% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
Opportunity3,017th of 4,199 cities measured46
SchoolsTop 34% of 4,162 cities measured62
GrowthTop 21% of 4,224 cities measured65
Housing affordability3,643rd of 4,218 cities measured44
ClimateTop 18% of 4,225 cities measured80
Physical resilience4,190th of 4,226 cities measured4
Access3,317th of 4,226 cities measured80
Economic stability3,037th of 4,226 cities measured45
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 5.8% and the Opportunity signal places Rotonda in the bottom 28%. The unemployment rate is published for Charlotte County, FL, which contains Rotonda, rather than for Rotonda alone.

In the public schools here, 64% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.5 students for every teacher.

3,186 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 10% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Charlotte County, FL, which contains Rotonda, rather than for Rotonda 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
10,352
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$74,573
Top 39% nationally
Density
971/sq mi
10.7 sq mi of land
Median age
68.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Metro area
Nearest major airport
SRQ
39 mi · Sarasota/Bradenton Intl
Median home value
$389,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Charlotte County, FL, which contains Rotonda, is 5.8% — higher than in all but 9% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Charlotte County, FL, which contains Rotonda, fell 1.1% over the past year, to 72,599 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 76% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsCharlotte County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$97,21978th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftCharlotte County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$70,11745th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$16,2382024 ACS 5-Year$74,573Top 39%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,9992024 ACS 5-Year$48,160Top 19%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year5.8%Top 28%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±4.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year29.7 minBottom 35%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year35.1%Top 24%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±9%2024 ACS 5-Year66.2%20th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentCharlotte County, FL’s figureJuly 202672,599Top 47%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Charlotte County, FL’s figureJuly 2026+1.1%Top 28%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Charlotte County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−1.1%Bottom 44%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceCharlotte County, FL’s figureJuly 202677,09953rd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year59.3%Bottom 11%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wagePunta Gorda, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$57,300Bottom 8%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wagePunta Gorda, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$45,500Bottom 8%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year1.6%88th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Charlotte County, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.6%Bottom 15%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateCharlotte County, FL’s figureJuly 20265.8%Bottom 9%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year23.6%90th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202475k55k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $74,573 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 — Punta Gorda, FL

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons2,720$34,290
Waiters and Waitresses1,780$36,360
Cashiers1,640$30,770
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,570$29,100
Registered Nurses1,430$80,410
General and Operations Managers1,380$89,820

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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Charlotte County, FL, which contains this city.

64% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 58% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.5 students for every full-time teacher across 2 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
64.4%
Top 26% in Florida
Reading proficiency
57.6%
Top 48% in Florida
All 2 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
L. A. Ainger Middle SchoolCHARLOTTE62516.971%58%
Vineland Elementary SchoolCHARLOTTE49414.156%57%

40.4% 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 1% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 98.8, 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 Punta Gorda, FL Metro Area is up 26% over five years, but down 0.2% 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 $3,154 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.81% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,370, some 19% above the $1,155 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,370 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $54,800 a year, about 73% of the median household income here of $74,573.

The typical renter household here spends 36% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,155 a month.

A median home at $389,400 costs 4.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $85,393, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
98.8

Prices here run about 1% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Punta Gorda, 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
36.2%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,370
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,155
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$389,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Rotonda’s median household income of $74,573, 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 Punta Gorda, FL Metro Area’s figure202398.8Top 41%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Punta Gorda, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.2%6th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Punta Gorda, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+26.3%10th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Punta Gorda, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+88.3%42nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.92024 ACS 5-Year4.6Bottom 12%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±11%2024 ACS 5-Year86.2%71st percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5202024 ACS 5-Year8,12093rd percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,090Top 29%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,900Top 38%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,370Top 33%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$5372024 ACS 5-Year$1,155Bottom 35%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$24,5142024 ACS 5-Year$389,40082nd percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$3222024 ACS 5-Year$3,15474th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$15,9482024 ACS 5-Year$85,393Top 42%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.10%2024 ACS 5-Year0.81%38th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±9%2024 ACS 5-Year36.2%Bottom 17%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±4102024 ACS 5-Year2,20999th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year27.2%94th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year7.2%51st percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±4262024 ACS 5-Year2,79298th 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

65/ 100
Top 21% 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.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 3,186 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 5% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Charlotte County, FL, which contains Rotonda, rather than for Rotonda alone.

Federal tax returns show Charlotte County, which contains Rotonda, gained about 2.5% 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 $97,219, above the $70,117 of households that moved out.

At 15.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Charlotte County, FL, which contains Rotonda, rather than for Rotonda alone.

Units permitted
3,186
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
15.8
Top 4% nationally
Year over year
−10%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
4.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+2.5%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
56%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$97,219
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$70,117
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Sarasota County, FL 2,434 people · 15% of arrivals
  2. Lee County, FL 1,830 people · 11% of arrivals
  3. Miami-Dade County, FL 309 people · 1.9% of arrivals
  4. Manatee County, FL 289 people · 1.8% of arrivals
  5. Broward County, FL 263 people · 1.6% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Sarasota County, FL 2,173 people · 17% of departures
  2. Lee County, FL 852 people · 6.8% of departures
  3. DeSoto County, FL 407 people · 3.2% of departures
  4. Hillsborough County, FL 282 people · 2.3% of departures
  5. Manatee County, FL 274 people · 2.2% 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 Charlotte 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 Rotonda, FL is not one. This is the figure for Charlotte 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 93°F and January a low of 51°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.0 inches.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PUNTA GORDA CHARLOTTE CO AP, 17.8 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND9.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals53.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals51°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals21°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

4 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, inland flooding and coastal flooding, with hurricane alone responsible for 76% 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.

HurricaneHigh
LightningModerate
WildfireModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
Cold waveModerate

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

Charlotte County records 4.9 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 17.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.6 per 100,000 residents in Charlotte County.

Homicide
4.9
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
17.9
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
11.6
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
22.3
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 Rotonda (Charlotte County) rather than Rotonda 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.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
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 Sarasota/Bradenton Intl at 39 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year93.6%Top 32%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle39 miBottom 19%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 45%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year4.9%Top 36%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Sarasota/Bradenton IntlSRQ39 mi9,500 ft
Southwest Florida IntlRSW40 mi12,000 ft
St Pete-Clearwater IntlPIE75 mi9,730 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 Punta Gorda, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Port CharlotteCharlotte County66,13344Port Charlotte vs Rotonda
Punta GordaCharlotte County20,27846Punta Gorda vs Rotonda

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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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
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
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 Rotonda

2 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Rotonda with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Rotonda closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3394710,447$80,091$403,100—
339463,090$85,848$660,80045