Wilton Manors, Florida

Area Profile

11,511 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Wilton Manors, in Broward County.

53out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 25% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2413th of 3,904 published cities51
GrowthTop 31% of 2,973 published cities61
Housing affordability3847th of 4,223 published cities48
ClimateTop 14% of 4,223 published cities81
Physical resilience3579th of 4,182 published cities21
AccessTop 14% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stability2674th of 4,226 published cities53
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 6.9 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 26% of it.

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

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

At a glance

Population
11,511
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$85,392
Top 29% nationally
Density
5,843/sq mi
2.0 sq mi of land
Median age
55.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Broward County
Florida
Metro area
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Nearest major airport
FLL
6 mi · Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Intl
Median home value
$589,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.5% is lower than 43% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.2% over the past year, to 1,025,842 employed residents.

45% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,132$85,392Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$11,571$77,234Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.4%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.8 minTop 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher45.2%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment1,025,842Top 5%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.3%Bottom 16%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.2%Bottom 40%June 2026
Labor force1,074,697Top 5%June 2026
Labor force participation63.6%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$67,190Bottom 42%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,640Bottom 27%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.8%Top 14%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.5%Top 43%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202485k79k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $85,392 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

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 Broward County, FL, which contains this city.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,871 takes 26% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.9 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
26.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,871
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$589,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income6.90Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate61.6%Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3997,377Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$154$1,871Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$40,847$589,200Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.3%Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.8%Top 50%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
61/ 100
Top 31% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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.

Population has grown 3% since 2020, reaching 11,788 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

70% 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 2.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
23
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.0
Bottom 46% nationally
Year over year
+360%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
69.6%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202412k11k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020222023202420258.04.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was close to 2020 (0%).

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 59°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 56.5 inches.

50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FT LAUDERDALE EXECUTIVE AP, 3.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation56.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low59°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing16°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

21 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HurricaneElevated
Inland floodingModerate
WildfireModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
Cold waveModerate

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

Broward County records 3.8 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 8.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.7 per 100,000 residents in Broward County.

Homicide
3.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.8
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 Broward 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 Wilton Manors rather than Wilton Manors 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 6 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood IntlFLL6 mi8,000 ft
Miami-Opa Locka ExecOPF19 mi8,002 ft
Miami IntlMIA27 mi13,016 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 County459,74553vs Wilton Manors
HialeahMiami-Dade County226,16552vs Wilton Manors
Fort LauderdaleBroward County185,60448vs Wilton Manors
Pembroke PinesBroward County173,19446vs Wilton Manors
HollywoodBroward County155,08245vs Wilton Manors
MiramarBroward County138,60054vs Wilton Manors
Coral SpringsBroward County136,10349vs Wilton Manors
West Palm BeachPalm Beach County122,29051vs Wilton Manors
Pompano BeachBroward County114,14744vs Wilton Manors
Miami GardensMiami-Dade County113,17745vs Wilton Manors
DavieBroward County108,34650vs Wilton Manors
Boca RatonPalm Beach County100,23454vs Wilton Manors

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)
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

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.