Scores by category

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

Safety92#1,173/15,637
Economy61#6,046/15,631
Housing9#13,586/14,977
Health84#2,522/15,609
Healthcare58#6,619/15,650
Environment49#7,830/15,453
Education88#1,900/15,649
Infrastructure67#5,183/15,650
Community72#4,423/15,651
Leisure & amenities80#3,133/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where St. Augustine, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “St. Johns 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

Math scores · high3.77
100/100Florida 3.28United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSt. Johns County value
Reading scores · high3.68
100/100Florida 3.17United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSt. Johns County value
Voter turnout · high86.0%
100/100Florida 68.0%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionSt. Johns County value
Mammography screening · high58.0%
97/100Florida 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSt. Johns County value
Comfortable days · high36.8%
96/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSt. Johns County value
Property crime rate · low359 /100k
95/100Florida 1,176 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationSt. Johns County value

Weaknesses

Rent-burdened households · high62.0%
3/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Rent as share of income · high33.9%
8/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
9/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesSt. Johns County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.487
10/100Florida 0.485United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Home price to income ratio · high5.6×
13/100Florida 4.8×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Students per teacher · high18.0×
14/100Florida 18.3×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsSt. Johns County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
14,515 (2015-2019) → 15,351 (2020-2024)
+5.8%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.7% (2015-2019) → 92.8% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
20.7% (2015-2019) → 5.8% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
15.6 /1k (2021) → 5.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−68%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$54,468 (2015-2019) → $78,151 (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
20.6% (2015-2019) → 14.1% (2020-2024)
−6.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, St. Augustine, Florida improved on 4 of 13 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.

Improved4

Uninsured−6.4 points17.6% → 11.3%
Poverty−6.4 points20.6% → 14.1%
Broadband+16 points76.7% → 92.8%
Household income+43%$54,468 → $78,151

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of St. Augustine, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.9 min2015-2019	20.1 min2020-2024	+1.2 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	40.4%2015-2019	44.6%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Broadband subscriptions	76.7%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	83%
Effective property tax rate	0.95%2015-2019	0.88%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%
High school diploma or higher	93.1%2015-2019	95.3%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Home price to income ratio	5.0×2015-2019	5.6×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	39%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4922015-2019	0.4872020-2024	−0.005	Within the margin of error	55%
Median household income	$54,4682015-2019	$78,1512020-2024	+43%	Improved	78%
Poverty rate	20.6%2015-2019	14.1%2020-2024	−6.4 points	Improved	85%
Rent as share of income	37.1%2015-2019	33.9%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Rent-burdened households	59.2%2015-2019	62.0%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Unemployment rate	4.1%2015-2019	3.8%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.6%2015-2019	11.3%2020-2024	−6.4 points	Improved	91%

“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 St. Augustine, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of St. Augustine, 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, St. Augustine, Florida itself moved +5.1 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

15,351 residents (±57)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69
50–59
40–49
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 20–29 women (−4.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

15,351 residents (±57)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

White84%12,909
Black3.4%†523
Hispanic or Latino6.8%1,044

Education

11,864 residents (±420)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

No high school diploma4.7%†553
High school or GED20%2,406
Some college22%2,568

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

6,529 households (±456)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k17%1,086
$25k–50k20%1,294
$50k–75k12%782
$75k–100k11%690
$100k–150k21%1,391
$150k–200k6.1%†400
$200k or more14%886

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+8.9 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

6,529 households (±456)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Own63%4,113
Rent37%2,416

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

2,381 households (±283)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Under $7503.9%†94
$750–1,0007.6%†180
$1,000–1,50028%†666

Home values

4,113 homes (±464)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Under $150k5.7%†233
$150k–250k8.8%†363
$250k–400k30%1,237

Age of homes

8,715 homes (±581)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

2010 or later18%1,603
2000–200917%1,443
1980–199915%1,336

Size of homes

8,715 homes (±581)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Studio3.2%†278
1 bedroom14%1,230
2 bedrooms35%3,063

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

7,349 workers (±602)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone62%4,581
Carpool10%†738
Public transit0.0%0
Walk5.0%†365
Bike1.1%†79
Work from home18%1,290
Other4.0%†296

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+8.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

6,059 workers (±668)

St. Augustine, Florida
Florida share

Under 15 min38%2,321
15–29 min42%2,518
30–44 min8.5%516

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Jacksonville, 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 St. Johns County, the county holding most of St. Augustine's residents.

St. Johns County has 8,633 employer establishments, 269 for every 10,000 residents (1.08× the US rate of 248; 0.96× Florida's), with 80,082 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,478. The Census Bureau also counts 35,748 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 8,633; 35,748 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 269; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 80,082
Average annual pay: $50,478; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	763	23.8	1.14×About typical	4,957	$68,096	1,895
Lessors of real estate	756	23.6	1.91×More than typical	2,423	$61,513	4,988
Restaurants and other eating places	616	19.2	1.05×About typical	13,392	$25,428	109
Specialty trade contractors	565	17.6	1.14×About typical	3,494	$55,671	1,529
Management, scientific and technical consulting	507	15.8	2.35×More than typical	1,139	$76,053	2,247
Real estate agents and brokers	469	14.6	3.00×More than typical	804	$69,425	1,976
Services to buildings and dwellings	347	10.8	1.60×More than typical	2,833	$35,878	1,648
Full-service restaurants	311	9.7	1.26×More than typical	8,317	$28,099	42
Offices of physicians	309	9.6	1.49×More than typical	1,826	$87,152	506
Construction of buildings	260	8.1	1.07×About typical	1,067	$99,641	780
Limited-service restaurants	227	7.1	0.88×About typical	4,033	$22,087	28
Offices of other health practitioners	224	7	1.15×About typical	998	$47,874	879

Rank places for an industry Open St. Johns County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 320,954 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 $9.8M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in St. Augustine, Florida: $637 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $9.8M; +209% vs FY2025
Per resident: $637; US $1,994
Sole-source: 7.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 7.5%; 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

National Park Service$7.6M78%
Department of Veterans Affairs$1M10%
Food and Drug Administration$635.6K6.5%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$242.2K2.5%
Department of the Air Force$153K1.6%
Department of the Navy$40.1K0.4%
Department of the Army$26K0.3%
Defense Logistics Agency$22.5K0.2%

Top recipients

STONE & LIME IMPORTS, INC$7.4M76%
COMPUTER EVIDENCE SPECIALISTS, LLC$1.6M17%
POLK & ASSOCIATES CONSTRUCTION INC$188.2K1.9%
LEXES ASSOCIATES, INC$153K1.6%
CROFT AND ASSOCIATES, INC.$134K1.4%

Spending by fiscal year

1.7MFY2017
1.9MFY2018
3.4MFY2019
4.3MFY2020
2.3MFY2021
2.3MFY2022
8.7MFY2023
4.1M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$7.5M77%
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services · 5412$738.7K7.6%
Investigation and security services · 5616$622.7K6.4%
Administration of human resource programs · 9231$539.4K5.5%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$187.9K1.9%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415

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 St. Augustine, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

St. Augustine, Florida's figures are part of those of St. Johns County, FL ($132.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 7.4% of that total.

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

See federal money in St. Johns 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.

St. Augustine, 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.

St. Johns County92100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Jacksonville, FL55

Other cities and towns in St. Johns 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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