Villas, Florida

Area Profile

13,644 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Villas, in Lee County.

46out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 10% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
Opportunity3,411th of 4,199 cities measured41
Schools2,861st of 4,162 cities measured35
GrowthTop 36% of 4,224 cities measured57
Housing affordability3,436th of 4,218 cities measured48
ClimateTop 16% of 4,225 cities measured81
Physical resilience4,167th of 4,226 cities measured5
AccessTop 21% of 4,226 cities measured98
Economic stability2,726th of 4,226 cities measured50
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 5.2% and the Opportunity signal places Villas in the bottom 19%. The unemployment rate is published for Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, rather than for Villas alone.

In the public schools here, 57% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 20.3 students for every teacher. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, rather than for Villas alone.

Residential permitting has slowed: 11,074 units authorized over the past twelve months, 29% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, rather than for Villas 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
13,644
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$58,413
Bottom 37% nationally
Density
2,950/sq mi
4.6 sq mi of land
Median age
52.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Nearest major airport
RSW
7 mi · Southwest Florida Intl
Median home value
$248,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, is 5.2% — higher than in all but 19% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, fell 0.6% over the past year, to 353,349 employed residents.

33% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsLee County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$123,82493rd percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftLee County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$84,88770th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$4,2982024 ACS 5-Year$58,413Bottom 37%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,6072024 ACS 5-Year$41,459Top 30%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year8.9%Top 42%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.1 min2024 ACS 5-Year25.5 minTop 43%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year32.6%Top 27%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±15%2024 ACS 5-Year67.7%23rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentLee County, FL’s figureJuly 2026353,349Top 23%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Lee County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−0.9%Bottom 41%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Lee County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−0.6%Top 47%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceLee County, FL’s figureJuly 2026372,82277th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year80.5%Top 42%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageCape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$60,050Bottom 15%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageCape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$46,780Bottom 15%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year0.8%83rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Lee County, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.6%Bottom 12%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateLee County, FL’s figureJuly 20265.2%Bottom 19%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±10%2024 ACS 5-Year15.3%77th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202458k55k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $58,413 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

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 Lee County, FL, which contains this city.

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 54% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, rather than for Villas alone.

There are 20.3 students for every full-time teacher across 1 public school, more than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, rather than for Villas alone.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
20.3
across 1 of them
Math proficiency
56.7%
Bottom 43% in Florida
Reading proficiency
53.6%
Bottom 38% in Florida

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Lee County, FL: too few schools in Villas reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly. The schools listed below are this place’s own.

All 2 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Villas Elementary SchoolLEE78414.554%47%
Lee County Acceleration AcademiesLEE230———

56.7% 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 3% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 103.1, 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area is up 28% over five years, but down 0.9% 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 $1,759 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.71% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,961, some 16% above the $1,695 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,961 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $78,400 a year, about 134% of the median household income here of $58,413.

The typical renter household here spends 34% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,695 a month.

A median home at $248,700 costs 4.5 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $55,362, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
103.1

Prices here run about 3% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, 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
34.1%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.5×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,961
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,695
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$248,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Villas’s median household income of $58,413, 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area’s figure2023103.1Bottom 39%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.9%3rd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+27.8%13th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+84.1%36th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.92024 ACS 5-Year4.5Bottom 12%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year64.2%27th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6352024 ACS 5-Year8,73093rd percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,638Bottom 36%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,560Bottom 33%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,961Bottom 34%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$702024 ACS 5-Year$1,695Bottom 14%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,9542024 ACS 5-Year$248,70065th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1712024 ACS 5-Year$1,75950th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$9,5402024 ACS 5-Year$55,362Bottom 17%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.09%2024 ACS 5-Year0.71%30th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year34.1%Bottom 23%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±2462024 ACS 5-Year79698th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year9.1%87th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year12.9%74th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3692024 ACS 5-Year1,92597th 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

57/ 100
Top 36% 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.

Federal tax returns show Lee County, which contains Villas, gained about 0.8% 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 $123,824, above the $84,887 of households that moved out.

At 13.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Lee County, FL, which contains Villas, rather than for Villas alone.

Units permitted
11K
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
13.5
Top 6% nationally
Year over year
−29%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
25.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.8%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
62%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$123,824
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$84,887
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Collier County, FL 4,627 people · 10.0% of arrivals
  2. Miami-Dade County, FL 3,807 people · 8.2% of arrivals
  3. Broward County, FL 1,845 people · 4.0% of arrivals
  4. Charlotte County, FL 852 people · 1.8% of arrivals
  5. Palm Beach County, FL 726 people · 1.6% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Collier County, FL 3,137 people · 7.6% of departures
  2. Charlotte County, FL 1,830 people · 4.4% of departures
  3. Miami-Dade County, FL 1,161 people · 2.8% of departures
  4. Hillsborough County, FL 1,132 people · 2.7% of departures
  5. Broward County, FL 757 people · 1.8% 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 Lee 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 Villas, FL is not one. This is the figure for Lee 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 92°F and January a low of 54°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 57.4 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 PAGE FLD AP, 2.4 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND10.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year492024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals57.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals54°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year02024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year372024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals19°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

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

5 / 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 69% 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
Coastal floodingElevated
WildfireModerate
Cold waveModerate

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

Lee County records 2.4 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 14.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.9 per 100,000 residents in Lee County.

Homicide
2.4
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.4
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
12.9
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
19.8
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 Villas (Lee County) rather than Villas 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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Southwest Florida Intl at 7 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year95.8%Top 21%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle7 miTop 16%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle4Bottom 38%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year2.7%Top 23%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Southwest Florida IntlRSW7 mi12,000 ft
Sarasota/Bradenton IntlSRQ72 mi9,500 ft
Dade-Collier Training and TransitionTNT77 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Cape CoralLee County215,53650Cape Coral vs Villas
Lehigh AcresLee County132,35342Lehigh Acres vs Villas
Fort MyersLee County95,05145Fort Myers vs Villas
Bonita SpringsLee County55,90448
North Fort MyersLee County44,99348
EsteroLee County37,85853
San Carlos ParkLee County19,15954
IonaLee County13,63146
Cypress LakeLee County13,03250
GatewayLee County11,17653

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
July 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 Villas

1 ZIP area

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

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3390725,033$52,478$257,80043