Wauchula, FL
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Wauchula, FL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 14,742. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet WAUCHULA-FL · Wauchula, FL 1 ZIPs · 14,742 pop · #20185/25278 · Hardee County
INC-MID · RANK-LOWER · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-MID $54,444
- RANK-LOWER #20185/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Bowling Green
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-MID 69% owners
- POP-TOWN 14,742
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $180,100
Nearest income peer: Bowling Green, FL (+ $6,373 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Wauchula
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Wauchula on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Wauchula · this city · lowest
Wauchula · this city · lowest
$54,444 median HH income
- Bowling Green · near
Bowling Green · near
$60,817 median HH income
- Ona · near
Ona · near
$67,818 median HH income
- Zolfo Springs · highest
Zolfo Springs · highest
$86,831 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Wauchula, FL sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- 20th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 14,742
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $54,444
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($54,444 average) · poverty 28.2%. The primary code (33873) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (68.5%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Wauchula as a pure owner town.
Within Florida, Lake Placid is the closest lower-income city and Babson Park the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Wauchula.
ZIP Codes in Wauchula, FL
These ZIP codes sit in Hardee County, which covers 4 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Wauchula. See the Hardee County roll-up →
Every one of the 3 cities sharing Hardee County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Wauchula, Bowling Green, Zolfo Springs and Ona among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Zolfo Springs marks the far end of that range at $86,831, 59% above Wauchula.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33873 | 14,742 | 48 | America/New_York |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Wauchula, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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