Zephyrhills West, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Zephyrhills West CDP is a mid-size town in Florida, with 5,770 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #443 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 53% of them. The median age here is 65.8 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 Zephyrhills West CDP earn a median of $49,315 a year, 37.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 28% 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 12.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Zephyrhills West CDP is valued at $89,700, 70.4% below the national figure and 71% below the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $996 a month, 29.2% below the national figure, or roughly $11,952 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.2% 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 1.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 81.2% 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.

A median age of 65.8 puts Zephyrhills West 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.