The Meadows, FL population, income and ZIP codes

The Meadows CDP is a mid-size town in Florida, with 5,463 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #451 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 52% of them. The median age here is 71.4 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 The Meadows CDP earn a median of $66,003 a year, 16% below the national figure of $78,538 and 4% 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 10.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in The Meadows CDP is valued at $344,900, 13.7% above the national figure and 13% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,625 a month, 15.6% above the national figure, or roughly $19,500 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.5% 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 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 74.9% 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 71.4 puts The Meadows 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.

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.