Gulf Breeze, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Gulf Breeze city is a mid-size town in Florida, with 6,519 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #423 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 55% of them. The median age here is 50.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Gulf Breeze city earn a median of $108,575 a year, 38.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 58% above the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 3.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gulf Breeze city is valued at $484,800, 59.8% above the national figure and 59% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,246 a month, 11.4% below the national figure, or roughly $14,952 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 77.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 50.2 puts Gulf Breeze city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

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.