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How Poinciana's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Poinciana?
Your $100,000 in Poinciana has the same purchasing power as $100,472 in the average US city.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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So why do people move to Poinciana? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly no state income tax and you can put away the heavy coats, plus 2 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
Florida is one of the handful of US states with no state income tax on wages, so the only income-tax bite on a paycheck in Poinciana is federal. For a household earning $100k, that's a tangible four-figure difference every year compared to a comparable salary in California or New York.
Winters in Poinciana average about 52°F — short, mild, and mostly just a different kind of nice weather than summer's 91°F. If you've spent a few years dealing with real winters and decided the trade-off isn't worth it, this is what the alternative looks like.
The reported crime rate in Poinciana runs about 989 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Average AQI in Poinciana comes in around 39, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Reasons are pulled from Poinciana's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
It's rare. Winters in Poinciana run about 52°F — cold-snap mornings happen, real snowfall doesn't, except maybe once a decade.
Not very. Average winter temperatures of about 52°F mean Poinciana skips the harsh-winter problem most of the country has. A handful of cold mornings, otherwise sweater weather at worst.
Properly hot. Poinciana's summer averages around 91°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 10. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 10 or colder should survive a typical winter in Poinciana. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Around 66 feet (20 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Poinciana's altitude shows up in daily life.
Officially, Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, but most of the action lands between mid-August and mid-October. For Poinciana, that's when to keep half an eye on the National Hurricane Center forecast cone — and when an actual evacuation plan is worth having in the drawer if you're in a low-lying or coastal neighborhood.
The headline number is reassuring. Poinciana's reported incident rate of about 989 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Poinciana's index of 100 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Poinciana's Walk Score is 0/100, firmly in the car-required tier. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $69,671 to live in Poinciana the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Poinciana runs about $1,509/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.