Census-designated place · Charlotte County, Florida

Charlotte Park, Florida

Charlotte Park is a census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida, part of the Punta Gorda, FL metro area. It has 1,966 residents. Charlotte Park, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 35 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,215 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #494 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on reading scores (high), math scores (high) and mammography screening (high). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), hot days (high) and natural hazard risk (high).

35Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,215 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #494 of 780 in FL
Population: 1,966 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,916.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 1211650

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety53#7,406/15,637
Economy58#6,528/15,631
Housing4#14,442/14,977
Health68#4,928/15,609
Healthcare29#11,112/15,650
Environment34#10,140/15,453
Education64#5,594/15,649
Infrastructure40#9,356/15,650
Community21#12,312/15,651
Leisure & amenities44#8,688/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Charlotte Park, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Charlotte County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Reading scores · high3.42
96/100Florida 3.17United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCharlotte County value
Math scores · high3.47
95/100Florida 3.28United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCharlotte County value
Mammography screening · high56.0%
94/100Florida 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCharlotte County value
Distance to an airport · low10 mi
90/100Florida 21 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCharlotte County value
Poverty rate · low3.7%
88/100Florida 12.1%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Depression · low19.3%
87/100Florida 18.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100Florida 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCharlotte County value
Hot days · high132 days
2/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCharlotte County value
Natural hazard risk · high98.5
2/100Florida 75.92025Federal Emergency Management AgencyCharlotte County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
5/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesCharlotte County value
Rent as share of income · high28.9%
7/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071High uncertainty
Social associations · low5.2 /10k
7/100Florida 6.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCharlotte County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,401 (2015-2019) → 1,966 (2020-2024)
−18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
27.3% (2015-2019) → 44.9% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.2% (2015-2019) → 89.3% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
14.5% (2015-2019) → 8.0% (2020-2024)
−6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.7× (2015-2019) → 4.8× (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.7% (2015-2019) → 28.9% (2020-2024)
+6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Charlotte Park, Florida improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+10 points79.2% → 89.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Charlotte Park, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.0 min2015-2019	24.4 min2020-2024	+4.4 min	Within the margin of error	12%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.3%2015-2019	20.4%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Broadband subscriptions	79.2%2015-2019	89.3%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	60%
Effective property tax rate	0.90%2015-2019	0.81%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
High school diploma or higher	87.9%2015-2019	92.1%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Home price to income ratio	3.7×2015-2019	4.8×2020-2024	+1.1×	Within the margin of error	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4132015-2019	0.3622020-2024	−0.051	Within the margin of error	84%
Median household income	$53,5442015-2019	$60,3022020-2024	+13%	Within the margin of error	20%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	27.3%2015-2019	44.9%2020-2024	+18 points	Within the margin of error	11%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Charlotte Park, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Charlotte Park, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Charlotte Park, Florida itself moved −5.4 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,966 residents (±430)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,209 households (±260)

Charlotte Park, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k9.3%†112
$25k–50k26%†312
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,209 households (±260)

Charlotte Park, Florida
Florida share

Own92%1,108
Rent8.4%†101

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

500 workers (±158)

Charlotte Park, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone81%†405
Carpool8.0%40
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Punta Gorda, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Charlotte County, the county holding most of Charlotte Park's residents.

Charlotte County has 4,601 employer establishments, 222 for every 10,000 residents (0.90× the US rate of 248; 0.79× Florida's), with 44,163 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,625. The Census Bureau also counts 20,173 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,601; 20,173 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 222; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 44,163
Average annual pay: $47,625; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Charlotte County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	529	25.6	1.65×More than typical	3,391	$55,511	1,433
Ambulatory health care services	446	21.6	1.03×About typical	4,277	$78,044	910
Lessors of real estate	346	16.7	1.36×More than typical	828	$45,324	2,732
Restaurants and other eating places	264	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	5,826	$24,142	74
Services to buildings and dwellings	262	12.7	1.88×More than typical	1,156	$40,989	1,647
Real estate agents and brokers	212	10.3	2.11×More than typical	430	$48,774	1,192
Offices of physicians	203	9.8	1.52×More than typical	1,789	$98,270	132
Construction of buildings	199	9.6	1.27×More than typical	793	$55,392	893
Building equipment contractors	198	9.6	1.59×More than typical	1,244	$56,037	250
Building finishing contractors	151	7.3	1.92×More than typical	523	$40,402	544
Full-service restaurants	142	6.9	0.89×About typical	3,665	$27,372	35
Management, scientific and technical consulting	122	5.9	0.88×About typical	259	$58,255	705

Rank places for an industry Open Charlotte County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 206,814 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $1,441 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Charlotte Park, Florida: $0.73 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,441; −40% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.73; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

United States Mint$1,09576%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$34624%

Top recipients

SANDERS RON$1,09576%
AIR CRITICAL CARE, LLC$34624%

Spending by fiscal year

30KFY2017
65.4KFY2018
18KFY2019
50.5KFY2020
9.1KFY2021
84.8KFY2022
2.8KFY2023
2.3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Independent artists, writers, and performers · 7115$1,09576%
Other ambulatory health care services · 6219$34624%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Charlotte Park, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Charlotte Park, Florida's figures are part of those of Charlotte County, FL ($19.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Charlotte Park is mostly in Charlotte County.

See federal money in Charlotte County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Charlotte Park, Florida is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

W. Gregory SteubeR-FL-17 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 3.1%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Charlotte County59100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Punta Gorda, FL56

Other cities and towns in Charlotte County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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