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Desoto Acres CDP, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Desoto Acres CDP is a Census CDP of 641 people across 1.31 square miles of land, in Sarasota County. Median household income is $120,982, 90.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Desoto Acres through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 641 with a margin of error of plus or minus 446, which is 69.6 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Desoto Acres
What Desoto Acres is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.31 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land490 plus or minus 341
- County holding the largest share of its areaSarasota County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Desoto Acres
How many people live in Desoto Acres
- Population641 plus or minus 446
- Median age52.8 plus or minus 17.5
- Population under 18143 plus or minus 102
- Share under 1822.3 percent
- Population 65 and over171 plus or minus 98
- Share 65 and over26.7 percent plus or minus 24.0
- Households187 plus or minus 90
- Family households154 plus or minus 87
- Share of households that are families82.4 percent plus or minus 24.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Desoto Acres
- Median household income$120,982 plus or minus $48,009
- Per capita income$47,906 plus or minus $12,756
- Civilian labor force411 plus or minus 290
- Employed411 plus or minus 290
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over481 plus or minus 304
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.5 percent plus or minus 76.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher33.5 percent plus or minus 16.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree16.0 percent plus or minus 10.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Desoto Acres
- Housing units187 plus or minus 90
- Occupied units187 plus or minus 90
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied169 plus or minus 89
- Renter occupied18 plus or minus 33
- Ownership rate90.4 percent plus or minus 19.3
- Median owner-occupied home value$585,800
- Single family units187 plus or minus 95
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Desoto Acres
How Desoto Acres gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute318 plus or minus 240
- Commuting under 15 minutes46 plus or minus 46
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.5 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more137 plus or minus 128
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more43.1 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Drove alone64.7 percent plus or minus 34.8
- Carpooled12.7 percent plus or minus 14.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home22.6 percent plus or minus 14.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sarasota County, not Desoto Acres
Sarasota County context, not Desoto Acres figures
These are Sarasota County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Desoto Acres measurements.
- Establishments in Sarasota County15,989
- Employment at those establishments, Sarasota County162,310
- Covered employment, Sarasota County190,078
- Average annual pay, Sarasota County$65,133
- Average weekly wage, Sarasota County$1,253
- Housing units permitted, Sarasota County7,466
- Of those, single family, Sarasota County5,259
- County product, 2024, Sarasota County$35,891,092,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sarasota County7.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sarasota County$192,550
Every figure in this section is published for Sarasota County as a whole and is not a measurement of Desoto Acres. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Desoto Acres questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Desoto Acres, Florida?
641, in 187 households. Desoto Acres CDP covers 1.31 square miles of land, which is 490 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Desoto Acres in?
Sarasota County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Desoto Acres?
$120,982. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $585,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Desoto Acres figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sarasota County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Desoto Acres.
Is zoning published for Desoto Acres?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.