Lehigh Acres, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Lehigh Acres CDP is a mid-size city in Florida, with 127,391 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #16 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 34.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Lehigh Acres CDP earn a median of $62,330 a year, 20.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 9% below 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 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lehigh Acres CDP is valued at $263,200, 13.2% below the national figure and 14% below the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,496 a month, 6.4% above the national figure, or roughly $17,952 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 68.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.