33716St. Petersburg, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 33716.

62out of 100
Area Score
Top 43% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3283rd of 6,210 published ZIP areas53
GrowthTop 21% of 5,428 published ZIP areas66
Housing affordability3857th of 6,685 published ZIP areas75
ClimateTop 12% of 6,789 published ZIP areas82
Physical resilience4911th of 6,709 published ZIP areas34
AccessTop 15% of 6,791 published ZIP areas99
Economic stabilityTop 47% of 6,742 published ZIP areas62
The quick read

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 2,841 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 175% on the prior year.

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

A major airport is 3 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
19,328
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$75,226
Top 45% nationally
Density
2,702/sq mi
7.2 sq mi of land
Median age
33.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
St. Petersburg
Florida
Metro area
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Nearest major airport
PIE
3 mi · St Pete-Clearwater Intl
Median home value
$209,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 65% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.9% over the past year, to 142,447 employed residents.

45% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 84% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,560$75,226Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,156$49,921Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.9%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.4 minBottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher45.4%Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment142,447Top 28%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.7%Bottom 7%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 46%June 2026
Labor force148,600Top 28%June 2026
Labor force participation82.5%Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,490Bottom 44%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,940Bottom 36%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 32%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 35%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202475k63k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $75,226 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 — Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons45,130$33,790
Registered Nurses38,720$85,470
General and Operations Managers35,700$103,670
Customer Service Representatives34,150$42,660
Fast Food and Counter Workers33,910$29,260
Cashiers25,820$30,290

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 labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for St. Petersburg, FL, the city containing this ZIP code.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,809 takes 29% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
28.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,809
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$209,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.79Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate20.3%Bottom 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±53511,702Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$41$1,809Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$33,369$209,800Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income28.9%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate11.9%Top 47%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
66/ 100
Top 21% of 5,428 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.

73% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 10.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
2,841
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
10.8
Top 10% nationally
Year over year
+175%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
73.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for St. Petersburg, FL, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 53°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ST PETERSBURG INTL AP, 3.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND9.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index60.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation53.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low53°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index48.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing22°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

34 / 100
Physical resilience

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

LightningModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
HurricaneElevated

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Pinellas County records 3.0 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 11.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 22.8 per 100,000 residents in Pinellas County.

Homicide
3.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
22.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.3
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 Pinellas 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 33716 rather than 33716 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

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

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
St Pete-Clearwater IntlPIE3 mi9,730 ft
Tampa IntlTPA10 mi11,002 ft
Sarasota/Bradenton IntlSRQ34 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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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
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.

33716 vs St. Petersburg

How this ZIP area compares with St. Petersburg as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

33716
St. Petersburg
Median household income
$75,226
vs
$75,192
Per capita income
$49,921
vs
$51,961
Population density
2,702/sq mi
vs
4,251/sq mi
Median home value
$209,800
vs
$371,100
Median gross rent
$1,809
vs
$1,663
Homeownership rate
20.3%
vs
62.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
45.4%
vs
42.6%
Poverty rate
12.9%
vs
12.5%
Median age
33.4
vs
43.1

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.