Census-designated place · Hernando County, Florida

High Point, Florida

High Point is a census-designated place in Hernando County, Florida, part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area. It has 3,548 residents. High Point, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 20 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,481 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #635 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), comfortable days (high) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), rent-burdened households (high) and public libraries (low).

20Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,481 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #635 of 780 in FL
Population: 3,548 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 715.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1230494

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.

Safety41#9,150/15,637
Economy42#9,141/15,631
Housing17#12,482/14,977
Health31#10,713/15,609
Healthcare14#13,454/15,650
Environment62#5,808/15,453
Education44#8,738/15,649
Infrastructure31#10,804/15,650
Community14#13,425/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,446/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where High Point, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Hernando 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

Effective property tax rate · low0.32%
96/100Florida 0.78%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Comfortable days · high33.5%
91/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHernando County value
Child care cost burden · low21.4%
90/100Florida 25.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHernando County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Florida 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHernando County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.349
83/100Florida 0.485United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
New business applications · high17.0 /1k
78/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauHernando County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100Florida 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHernando County value
Rent-burdened households · high58.2%
4/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
4/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesHernando County value
Rent as share of income · high38.8%
7/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071High uncertainty
Injury deaths · high134 /100k
8/100Florida 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHernando County value
Hot days · high108 days
8/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHernando County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
3,974 (2015-2019) → 3,548 (2020-2024)
−11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
22.9% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 3.7× (2020-2024)
+84%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
24.2% (2015-2019) → 11.5% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateImproving
17.2% (2015-2019) → 6.5% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
9.6% (2015-2019) → 19.7% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, High Point, Florida improved on 5 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 6 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.

Improved5

Uninsured−13 points24.2% → 11.5%
Child poverty−23 points22.9% → 0.0%
Bachelor's++10 points9.6% → 19.7%
Broadband+9 points81.5% → 90.5%
Household income+28%$38,490 → $49,368

Declined1

Price / income+1.7×2.0× → 3.7×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of High Point, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.3 min2015-2019	20.1 min2020-2024	−7.2 min	Within the margin of error	96%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.6%2015-2019	19.7%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	90%
Broadband subscriptions	81.5%2015-2019	90.5%2020-2024	+9 points	Improved	54%
Child poverty rate	22.9%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−23 points	Improved	95%
High school diploma or higher	85.9%2015-2019	90.7%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	3.7×2020-2024	+1.7×	Declined	7%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4102015-2019	0.3492020-2024	−0.062	Within the margin of error	88%
Median household income	$38,4902015-2019	$49,3682020-2024	+28%	Improved	51%
Poverty rate	13.1%2015-2019	7.9%2020-2024	−5.2 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	62.7%2015-2019	58.2%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	24.2%2015-2019	11.5%2020-2024	−13 points	Improved	98%

“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 High Point, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of High Point, 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, High Point, Florida itself moved +9.7 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

3,548 residents (±371)

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

2,073 households (±291)

High Point, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k20%†418
$25k–50k33%†684
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,073 households (±291)

High Point, Florida
Florida share

Own88%1,834
Rent12%†239

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

1,059 workers (±323)

High Point, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone69%†732
Carpool9.8%†104
Public transit

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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, 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 Hernando County, the county holding most of High Point's residents.

Hernando County has 3,874 employer establishments, 182 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.65× Florida's), with 42,473 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,382. The Census Bureau also counts 19,838 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,874; 19,838 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 182; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 42,473
Average annual pay: $43,382; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	460	21.6	1.04×About typical	4,708	$70,602	1,073
Specialty trade contractors	379	17.8	1.15×About typical	2,253	$47,718	1,429
Restaurants and other eating places	261	12.2	0.67×Fewer than typical	5,741	$21,681	129
Lessors of real estate	224	10.5	0.85×About typical	625	$41,878	1,651
Offices of physicians	200	9.4	1.45×More than typical	2,013	$88,690	119
Services to buildings and dwellings	186	8.7	1.29×More than typical	691	$33,834	1,806
Real estate agents and brokers	127	6	1.22×About typical	207	$35,763	705
Building equipment contractors	125	5.9	0.97×About typical	590	$49,542	216
Full-service restaurants	122	5.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	3,034	$24,160	54
Limited-service restaurants	119	5.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	2,499	$18,947	52
Construction of buildings	111	5.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	527	$50,860	781
Building finishing contractors	103	4.8	1.27×More than typical	395	$46,711	548

Rank places for an industry Open Hernando County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 213,201 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 -$37.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in High Point, Florida: -$10.50 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$37.3K; −10,195% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$10.50; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

SPRING HILL BRACE AND LIMB, L.L.C$4,5160.0%
PATRIOT PURVEYORS, INC.$5420.0%
TRIPLE C-THE A & E GROUP LLC-$18.3K0.0%
RSD INDUSTRIES LLC-$24.1K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

0FY2017
-2.5KFY2020
1.5KFY2021
25.9KFY2022
9.6KFY2023
194.5KFY2024
369.1FY2025
-37.3KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$31.1K0.0%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$4,5160.0%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$7850.0%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$5420.0%

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 High Point, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

High Point, Florida's figures are part of those of Hernando County, FL ($18.9M 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: High Point is mostly in Hernando County.

See federal money in Hernando 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.

High Point, Florida is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Gus M. BilirakisR-FL-12 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 2.2%

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.

Hernando County41100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL64

Other cities and towns in Hernando 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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