San Carlos Park, Florida

Area Profile

19,159 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for San Carlos Park, in Lee County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2525th of 3,904 published cities49
SchoolsTop 39% of 2,668 published cities60
Housing affordability2321st of 4,223 published cities78
ClimateTop 12% of 4,223 published cities82
Physical resilience4123rd of 4,182 published cities5
AccessTop 29% of 4,226 published cities97
Economic stability2119th of 4,226 published cities60
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.1% and median household income $85,952, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

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

A major airport is 6 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
19,159
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$85,952
Top 28% nationally
Density
4,057/sq mi
4.7 sq mi of land
Median age
37.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Lee County
Florida
Metro area
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
Nearest major airport
RSW
6 mi · Southwest Florida Intl
Median home value
$325,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.1% is lower than 22% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.7% over the past year, to 355,363 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,857$85,952Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,760$36,327Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.4%Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.1 minTop 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.9%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment355,363Top 20%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.0%Top 48%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.7%Top 49%June 2026
Labor force374,577Top 20%June 2026
Labor force participation68.7%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$60,050Bottom 14%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,780Bottom 15%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.8%Top 14%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.1%Top 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202486k72k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $85,952 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 — Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons12,220$34,650
Registered Nurses8,700$82,860
Waiters and Waitresses7,980$36,660
Fast Food and Counter Workers7,260$29,360
General and Operations Managers7,150$94,730
Cashiers6,950$30,530

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 Lee County, FL, which contains this city.

65% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 58% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
65.4%
Top 22% in Florida
Reading proficiency
57.8%
Top 38% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
THREE OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOLLEE1,09123.278%63%
THREE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLEE94118.172%67%
SAN CARLOS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLEE64216.545%45%
ATHENIAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL · charterLEE43724.350%43%

30.5% 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 $1,715 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
23.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,715
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$325,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.78Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate73.6%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5137,692Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$110$1,715Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,237$325,000Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.9%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.4%Top 42%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 91°F and January a low of 54°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 37, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FT MYERS SW FL RGNL AP, 5.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND10.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index49.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation53.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low54°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index37.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing19°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
37
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
49
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

5 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HurricaneHigh
Coastal floodingElevated
WildfireModerate
Cold waveModerate

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

Lee County records 2.8 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 14.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.1 per 100,000 residents in Lee County.

Homicide
2.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.4
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 Lee 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 San Carlos Park rather than San Carlos Park 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 6 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Southwest Florida IntlRSW6 mi12,000 ft
Dade-Collier Training and TransitionTNT71 mi10,499 ft
Sarasota/Bradenton IntlSRQ78 mi9,500 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Cape CoralLee County215,53653vs San Carlos Park
Lehigh AcresLee County132,353vs San Carlos Park
Fort MyersLee County95,05145vs San Carlos Park
Bonita SpringsLee County55,90451vs San Carlos Park
North Fort MyersLee County44,993vs San Carlos Park
EsteroLee County37,85853vs San Carlos Park
VillasLee County13,644vs San Carlos Park
IonaLee County13,631vs San Carlos Park
Cypress LakeLee County13,032vs San Carlos Park
GatewayLee County11,176vs San Carlos Park

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)
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 San Carlos Park

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3396728,341$90,519