Winter Park, Florida

Area Profile

30,274 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Winter Park, in Orange County.

55out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 36% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
Opportunity2,278th of 4,199 cities measured54
Schools3,067th of 4,162 cities measured31
GrowthTop 28% of 4,224 cities measured61
Housing affordability3,652nd of 4,218 cities measured43
ClimateTop 17% of 4,225 cities measured80
Physical resilience2,576th of 4,226 cities measured47
AccessTop 17% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stability2,188th of 4,226 cities measured57
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.8% and median household income $105,724, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured.

In the public schools here, 53% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.3 students for every teacher. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Orange County, FL, which contains Winter Park, rather than for Winter Park alone.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 124 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 59% on the prior year.

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
30,274
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$105,724
Top 15% nationally
Density
3,452/sq mi
8.8 sq mi of land
Median age
44.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Nearest major airport
MCO
12 mi · Orlando Intl
Median home value
$731,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.8% — higher than in all but 32% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.5% over the past year, to 14,021 employed residents.

65% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 95% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsOrange County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$66,91240th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftOrange County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$61,69126th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$9,6292024 ACS 5-Year$105,724Top 15%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,8882024 ACS 5-Year$82,310Top 4%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year7.4%Top 35%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year23.6 minTop 33%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year65.2%Top 5%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year62.6%15th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202614,021Bottom 11%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026−2.8%Bottom 15%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−0.5%Top 45%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202614,72611th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year80.3%Top 43%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageOrlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$61,890Bottom 21%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageOrlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$46,630Bottom 13%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.6%81st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+0.7%Bottom 9%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20264.8%Bottom 32%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year30.0%95th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/075.12.3
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.8% in July 2026. It has been rising, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024106k89k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $105,724 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 — Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons49,970$32,290
Waiters and Waitresses36,820$35,410
Customer Service Representatives35,690$40,530
Fast Food and Counter Workers34,830$28,620
Registered Nurses30,150$83,550
Cashiers29,340$31,330

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.

53% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 53% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Orange County, FL, which contains Winter Park, rather than for Winter Park alone.

There are 18.3 students for every full-time teacher across 1 public school, more than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Orange County, FL, which contains Winter Park, rather than for Winter Park alone.

Public schools
1
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.4%
Bottom 31% in Florida
Reading proficiency
53.3%
Bottom 35% in Florida

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

The one public school on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Killarney ElementaryORANGE34415.052%47%

67.4% 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 2% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 101.6, 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area is up 45% over five years, and up 0.8% 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 $5,401 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.74% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,074, some 19% above the $1,738 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,074 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $83,000 a year, about 79% of the median household income here of $105,724.

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 $1,738 a month.

A median home at $731,400 costs 5.0 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $145,641, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Cost of living
101.6

Prices here run about 2% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, 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
33.6%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.0×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,074
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,738
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$731,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Winter Park’s median household income of $105,724, 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2023101.6Top 48%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+0.8%15th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+45.4%59th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+120.6%88th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.72024 ACS 5-Year5.0Bottom 9%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year66.2%30th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4642024 ACS 5-Year14,21396th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,821Bottom 26%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,600Bottom 32%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,074Bottom 30%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$722024 ACS 5-Year$1,738Bottom 13%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$43,1382024 ACS 5-Year$731,40095th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$6612024 ACS 5-Year$5,40191st percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$18,8092024 ACS 5-Year$145,641Top 7%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.10%2024 ACS 5-Year0.74%32nd percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year33.6%Bottom 25%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1182024 ACS 5-Year19794th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year1.4%65th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year8.2%56th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3142024 ACS 5-Year1,36796th 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

61/ 100
Top 28% of 4,224 published city profiles
Permitting has been rising for the last 2 years of a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

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 30,835 in 2024.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 30,835 residents in 2024, up 1.0% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 124 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show Orange County, which contains Winter Park, lost 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 $66,912, above the $61,691 of households that moved out.

At 4.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
124
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.1
Top 35% nationally
Year over year
+59%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202431k30k
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. It has been rising for the last 3 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.8%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
42%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$66,912
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$61,691
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Seminole County, FL 9,995 people · 12% of arrivals
  2. Osceola County, FL 9,317 people · 11% of arrivals
  3. Polk County, FL 3,842 people · 4.6% of arrivals
  4. Lake County, FL 3,559 people · 4.3% of arrivals
  5. Miami-Dade County, FL 3,362 people · 4.0% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Osceola County, FL 13,131 people · 14% of departures
  2. Seminole County, FL 12,453 people · 13% of departures
  3. Lake County, FL 8,287 people · 8.9% of departures
  4. Polk County, FL 7,567 people · 8.1% of departures
  5. Volusia County, FL 3,469 people · 3.7% 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 Orange County, FL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

20202021202220232024202510666
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−8%).

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 52°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and about 2 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 ORLANDO EXECUTIVE AP, 3.6 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND8.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year582024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals51.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals52°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year22024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year412024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals22°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
58
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
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. 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

47 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 44% 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.

Strong windHigh
TornadoModerate
HurricaneElevated
WildfireModerate
Cold waveModerate
HailModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, inland flooding, heat wave, earthquake, landslide, drought, winter weather, coastal flooding, 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.

Violent crime
245
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,417
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Winter Park's police department reported 245 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,417.

Orange County records 3.7 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 9.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.5 per 100,000 residents in Orange County.

Homicide
3.7
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.0
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
12.5
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
10.5
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.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Winter Park’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. 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 Winter Park (Orange County) rather than Winter Park itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and 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.

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

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Orlando Intl at 12 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year93.4%Top 33%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle12 miTop 32%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle7Top 13%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year3.3%Top 27%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Orlando IntlMCO12 mi10,000 ft
Orlando Sanford IntlSFB14 mi11,002 ft
Melbourne Orlando IntlMLB55 mi10,181 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
OrlandoOrange County319,75856Orlando vs Winter Park
AlafayaOrange County92,44962Alafaya vs Winter Park
KissimmeeOsceola County81,47944Kissimmee vs Winter Park
Pine HillsOrange County80,10547
PoincianaOsceola County75,06845
Horizon WestOrange County67,41661
St. CloudOsceola County65,13053
Four CornersOsceola County65,04851
SanfordSeminole County63,73057
ApopkaOrange County58,23257
OcoeeOrange County49,03356
Winter GardenOrange County47,87259

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
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
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
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
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 Winter Park

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Winter Park 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 Winter Park 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
3278927,788$106,671$791,400—