What salary do you need to live in Wildwood, FL?

What housing costs in Wildwood

A one-bedroom in Wildwood rents for a median of $1,276 a month, utilities the tenant pays included; a two-bedroom goes for $1,271 and a three-bedroom for $1,169. Over a full year, the two-bedroom median comes to $15,252.

Buying is the other half of the housing picture: owners put the median home in Wildwood-The Villages, FL at $385,400. That works out to 5.0× the local median household income of $76,508, a mid-range ratio.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 85.4 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Wildwood has the buying power of roughly $117,063 at national average prices.

Income needed for each grade in Wildwood

The salary lines for a two-bedroom household land at $34,000 for Tight, $69,000 for Okay and $138,000 for Comfortable. The gap between the Okay and Comfortable lines alone is $69,000, which says how much extra income it takes to make housing feel roomy here rather than merely workable.

Royal, the top band, starts at $296,000. At that income rent is 5% of pay and the median home 1.3× income.

These lines come straight from the calculator's formula: the income is raised until the two-bedroom score crosses each cutoff, then rounded up to the next $1,000.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Wildwood

Choosing a bigger place in Wildwood at $75,000 trims the score from 48 to 49 without leaving Okay.

Of the four salaries, $150,000 is the first where a two-bedroom reads Comfortable or better; $100,000 still lands at Okay.

Wildwood compared with every US metro

Out of 387 metros, Wildwood has the 378th highest price parity and the 131st highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it among the least expensive tenth on overall prices and near the middle on rent.

Tallahassee, FL ($1,273) and Redding, CA ($1,270) bracket Wildwood on two-bedroom rent.

Comparing Wildwood with Florida

How Wildwood stacks up against its state: $1,271 for a two-bedroom against Florida's $1,664, $385,400 for the median home against $359,000, and a price level of 85.4 against 103.4.

Run Florida's statewide medians through the same score and Comfortable begins at $235,000; Wildwood's line is −41% from that.

Within Florida, the metros closest to Wildwood on rent and overall prices are Tallahassee, FL, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL, and Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL. Their Comfortable lines for two bedrooms sit at $145,000, $160,000, and $152,000.

Wildwood's median income on the scale

A household at the Wildwood median income of $76,508 would see a two-bedroom score of 48 — Okay — with rent at 20% of income. That falls $61,492 short of the $138,000 Comfortable line, a reminder that the typical household here spends a larger share on housing than the Comfortable band allows. Statewide, the Florida median household ($74,568) grades Tight on the state's own medians. Keep in mind a household median often combines two incomes.

Treat every number here as a pre-tax, public-data estimate rather than financial advice.