Town · Pinellas County, Florida

Kenneth City, Florida

Kenneth City is a town in Pinellas County, Florida, part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area. It has 5,012 residents. Kenneth City, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 38 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,633 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #458 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on new business applications (high), distance to an airport (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), drought exposure (high) and rent as share of income (high).

38Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,633 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #458 of 780 in FL
Population: 5,012 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 7,019.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 1236175

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety36#9,971/15,637
Economy44#8,718/15,631
Housing4#14,332/14,977
Health41#9,162/15,609
Healthcare53#7,341/15,650
Environment51#7,487/15,453
Education41#9,298/15,649
Infrastructure21#12,303/15,650
Community63#5,812/15,651
Leisure & amenities94#860/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Kenneth City, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pinellas 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

New business applications · high40.4 /1k
99/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauPinellas County value
Distance to an airport · low8 mi
96/100Florida 21 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPinellas County value
Comfortable days · high35.8%
95/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPinellas County value
Distance to an emergency room · low2.9 mi
93/100Florida 4.8 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPinellas County value
Pharmacies · high2.7 /10k
93/100Florida 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPinellas County value
Access to exercise opportunities · high98.3%
93/100Florida 87.8%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePinellas County value

Weaknesses

Rent-burdened households · high66.0%
2/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Drought exposure · high92%
5/100Florida 78%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAPinellas County value
Rent as share of income · high44.8%
6/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Broadband subscriptions · low84.1%
7/100Florida 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Injury deaths · high132 /100k
8/100Florida 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePinellas County value
Hot days · high100 days
10/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPinellas County value

Trends

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

Rent as share of incomeWorsening
30.8% (2015-2019) → 44.8% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
52.3% (2015-2019) → 66.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.3× (2015-2019) → 4.9× (2020-2024)
+48%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.2% (2015-2019) → 84.1% (2020-2024)
+5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
6.1% (2015-2019) → 11.1% (2020-2024)
+5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.476 (2015-2019) → 0.408 (2020-2024)
−14%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Kenneth City, Florida improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved2

Inequality−0.0690.476 → 0.408
Broadband+5.8 points78.2% → 84.1%

Declined1

Price / income+1.6×3.3× → 4.9×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Kenneth City, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.0 min2015-2019	26.7 min2020-2024	+2.7 min	Within the margin of error	21%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.8%2015-2019	17.3%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	78.2%2015-2019	84.1%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Improved	37%
Effective property tax rate	0.71%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%
High school diploma or higher	86.6%2015-2019	88.6%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	4.9×2020-2024	+1.6×	Declined	8%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4762015-2019	0.4082020-2024	−0.069	Improved	90%
Median household income	$46,2382015-2019	$49,3472020-2024	+6.7%	Within the margin of error	13%
Poverty rate	12.5%2015-2019	13.8%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Rent as share of income	30.8%2015-2019	44.8%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Rent-burdened households	52.3%2015-2019	66.0%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.2%2015-2019	14.8%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	40%

“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 Kenneth City, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Kenneth City, 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, Kenneth City, Florida itself moved −8 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

5,012 residents (±19)

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

1,908 households (±169)

Kenneth City, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k22%†417
$25k–50k29%†560
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,908 households (±169)

Kenneth City, Florida
Florida share

Own81%1,539
Rent19%†369

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

1,914 workers (±231)

Kenneth City, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone77%1,470
Carpool7.7%†147
Public transit3.0%†

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 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 Pinellas County, the county holding most of Kenneth City's residents.

Pinellas County has 32,509 employer establishments, 337 for every 10,000 residents (1.36× the US rate of 248; 1.20× Florida's), with 425,004 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,991. The Census Bureau also counts 111,471 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 32,509; 111,471 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 337; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 425,004
Average annual pay: $59,991; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	3,218	33.3	1.60×More than typical	33,049	$74,978	6,165
Lessors of real estate	2,221	23	1.87×More than typical	7,144	$55,380	14,129
Restaurants and other eating places	2,024	21	1.14×About typical	39,903	$24,255	489
Specialty trade contractors	1,874	19.4	1.25×More than typical	18,020	$61,451	5,179
Management, scientific and technical consulting	1,626	16.8	2.51×More than typical	9,706	$83,216	4,997
Offices of physicians	1,143	11.8	1.83×More than typical	11,667	$106,872	1,143
Services to buildings and dwellings	1,073	11.1	1.65×More than typical	5,783	$36,089	7,086
Real estate agents and brokers	1,056	10.9	2.25×More than typical	1,678	$57,271	4,322
Offices of other health practitioners	966	10	1.65×More than typical	4,144	$45,838	2,577
Full-service restaurants	933	9.7	1.26×More than typical	23,049	$27,410	227
Legal services	917	9.5	1.77×More than typical	4,460	$89,638	937
Limited-service restaurants	826	8.6	1.07×About typical	13,883	$19,891	159

Rank places for an industry Open Pinellas County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 965,743 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 $91.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Kenneth City, Florida: $18.30 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $91.7K; +0.5% vs FY2025
Per resident: $18.30; US $1,994
Sole-source: 57%; 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

Top recipients

SILVERKING COLLISION CENTER, LLC$45.7K50%
S.S. WHITE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$25.1K27%
TRI-TECH OF FLORIDA INC$15.4K17%
KAMACK MARINE, LLC$13.7K15%
LIMA CHARLIE, INC$4510.5%

Spending by fiscal year

62.4KFY2017
64.8KFY2018
269.4KFY2019
221.3KFY2020
41.5KFY2021
-6.7KFY2022
17.2KFY2023
10.9KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Automotive repair and maintenance · 8111$45.7K50%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$25.1K27%
Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$15.4K17%
Ship and boat building · 3366$13.7K15%

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 Kenneth City, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Kenneth City, Florida's figures are part of those of Pinellas County, FL ($777.1M 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: Kenneth City is mostly in Pinellas County.

See federal money in Pinellas 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.

Kenneth City, Florida is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Pinellas County71100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL64

Other cities and towns in Pinellas 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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