Safety Harbor vs Tarpon Springs

A side-by-side comparison of Safety Harbor and Tarpon Springs: population, income, housing, and more.

Safety Harbor and Tarpon Springs are places in Florida. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Tarpon Springs has the higher population (25,522 vs 17,040 in Safety Harbor). Safety Harbor has the higher median household income ($105,813 vs $68,877 in Tarpon Springs). Safety Harbor has the higher median home value ($433,300 vs $321,000 in Tarpon Springs).

Population, income & housing

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
Population	17,040	25,522
Median age	49.1 yrs	55.7 yrs
Median household income	$105,813	$68,877
Median home value	$433,300	$321,000
Median gross rent	$1,719	$1,234
Housing units	7,602	13,198
Homeownership rate	84.2%	80.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	47.2%	32.5%
Unemployment rate	2.8%	5.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
Population	17,803 → 17,040 (-4.3%)	25,176 → 25,522 (+1.4%)
Median household income	$78,026 → $105,813 (+35.6%)	$50,012 → $68,877 (+37.7%)
Median home value	$268,800 → $433,300 (+61.2%)	$209,400 → $321,000 (+53.3%)
Median gross rent	$1,319 → $1,719 (+30.3%)	$851 → $1,234 (+45.0%)

Safety Harbor

Population

17,80317,040

Median household income

$78,026$105,813

Median home value

$268,800$433,300

Median gross rent

$1,319$1,719

Tarpon Springs

Population

25,17625,522

Median household income

$50,012$68,877

Median home value

$209,400$321,000

Median gross rent

$851$1,234

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
Under 5	4.5%	3.3%
5 to 17	14.5%	8.6%
18 to 24	4.2%	6.1%
25 to 34	8.0%	9.6%
35 to 44	12.6%	8.7%
45 to 54	16.7%	11.9%
55 to 64	15.7%	20.7%
65 to 74	13.0%	16.9%
75 and over	10.9%	14.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
White (non-Hispanic)	74.5%	80.1%
Black or African American	7.1%	6.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.0%
Asian	2.3%	0.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.7%	0.4%
Two or more races	3.8%	2.5%
Hispanic or Latino	10.6%	10.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
No high school diploma	3.2%	7.3%
High school graduate	22.1%	31.5%
Some college or associate's	27.5%	28.7%
Bachelor's degree	31.5%	21.4%
Graduate or professional degree	15.6%	11.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
Drove alone	65.4%	72.7%
Carpooled	8.8%	5.2%
Public transit	0.3%	0.0%
Walked	1.6%	0.8%
Bicycle	0.3%	0.8%
Worked from home	23.2%	19.1%
Other means	0.5%	1.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
1-unit, detached	65.2%	57.5%
1-unit, attached	9.0%	7.8%
2 to 4 units	5.8%	8.1%
5 to 19 units	4.5%	8.2%
20 or more units	5.8%	8.6%
Mobile home & other	9.6%	9.8%

Poverty & households

	Safety Harbor	Tarpon Springs
Poverty rate	6.8%	10.1%
Average household size	2.45	2.17
Mean commute (minutes)	24	30
Median year structure built	1984	1984