South Bradenton, FL population, income and ZIP codes

South Bradenton CDP is a small city in Florida, with 25,585 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #168 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 45.5 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 South Bradenton CDP earn a median of $47,914 a year, 39% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% below 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 16.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in South Bradenton CDP is valued at $149,600, 50.7% below the national figure and 51% below the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,230 a month, 12.5% below the national figure, or roughly $14,760 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.8% 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 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 53.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

South Bradenton CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.8% of median income while homes cost only 3.1× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.