Pelican Bay, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Pelican Bay CDP is a mid-size town in Florida, with 6,575 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #420 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 56% of them. The median age here is 73.8 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 Pelican Bay CDP earn a median of $159,187 a year, 102.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 132% above the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 6.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pelican Bay CDP is valued at $1,206,200, 297.6% above the national figure and 295% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 7.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 94.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Home values sit at 7.6× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. A median age of 73.8 puts Pelican Bay CDP 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.

The Census withheld gross rent for Pelican Bay CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.