Fort Pierce, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Pierce city is a small city in Florida, with 48,094 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #84 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 38 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Fort Pierce city earn a median of $46,745 a year, 40.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 32% below the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 26.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Pierce city is valued at $220,500, 27.3% below the national figure and 28% below the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,194 a month, 15.1% below the national figure, or roughly $14,328 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 48.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.