Feather SoundFL
With 3,476 residents, it is a town in Florida.
What should you know before moving to Feather Sound?
Health is its strong suit (A): it is healthier than 95% of U.S. towns. Feather Sound grades B− overall, better than 52% of U.S. towns, and ranks 148th of 634 in Florida. Incomes are another plus: the median household earns $88K. Where it falls short is cost of living (D−): the typical home is worth about $416K, 5.6 years of the Tampa metro’s $74K median household income. 58% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more locally, above both Florida’s towns (31%) and U.S. towns (29%). The town’s concentration of trails is 1.1 miles per square mile, where Florida’s towns sit at 0.4 and U.S. towns at 0.4. The rest of its grades are middling: B for schools, B for walkability and C+ for hazard risk.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · schools, state test and graduation results · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenStreetMap.
What makes Feather Sound stand out
Where Feather Sound beats most towns.
Feather Sound lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 18% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
How Feather Sound grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Feather Sound is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Tropicana Field and 53 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Feather Sound. Close and well known come first.
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaTropicana Field
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaRaymond James Stadium
15 mi Stadium & arenaBenchmark International Arena
27 mi BeachAnna Maria Island
19 mi Theme parkBusch Gardens Tampa4.0M visitors a year
10 mi MuseumSalvador Dalí MuseumPhoto credits
Tropicana Field: EaglesFanInTampa, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Raymond James Stadium: NASA, Public domain · Benchmark International Arena: Miosotis Jade, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anna Maria Island: Bfpage at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 · Busch Gardens Tampa: Wolle8ball, CC BY 3.0 · Salvador Dalí Museum: Taty2007, CC BY 3.0
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Moving to Feather Sound: who provides what
Feather Sound is unincorporated, so Pinellas County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Feather Sound.
Feather Sound draws workers from St. Petersburg and beyond, has less tooth loss than most of Florida and has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns.
Feather Sound keeps 2.6% of its land conserved
Count the trails in 1 park or preserve and they come to 3.6 miles. Feather Sound has one park or preserve, 3 acres in all.
| Feather Sound | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.6% | 3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Earl R Maize Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A smaller share of adults in Feather Sound get no exercise outside work than in the typical Florida or U.S. town
Its widest gap with Florida is tooth loss: 3.2% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 12.7% statewide.
In Feather Sound, 14% of adults report frequent mental distress; what’s more, among 636 Florida towns, just 10 have a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Feather Sound. Two figures for adults in the town: 11% report frequent physical distress, 8.3% smoke cigarettes. This Florida town does better than the Florida average on 21 of 31 CDC measures and worse on 1.
| Feather Sound | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 25% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.3% | 13% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 20% | 19% |
| What stands out | Feather Sound | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 3.2% | 12.7% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7% | 16.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 9.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most working residents commute out of Feather Sound
4,641 jobs are based in Feather Sound, 2.7 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 2,466 in 2013 to 4,641.
25% of Feather Sound workers work from home. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 3% of working residents work locally. Since 2013, Feather Sound has added 2,175 jobs, to 4,641 in 2023. The top destinations are St. Petersburg (23%), Tampa (18%) and Largo (8%).
| Feather Sound | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 25% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Feather Sound
January nights average 52.3°, milder than in 99% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 90.4°.
The January low for Feather Sound comes to 52°F. Snow almost never falls.
| Feather Sound | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 52°F | 51°F | 22°F |
| July high | 90°F | 91°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Feather Sound has a moderate natural-hazard risk, chiefly from hurricanes
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Feather Sound once, in 2017. Compared with 55% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in the town is higher. FEMA puts two fifths of the town’s expected hazard losses down to hurricanes, and 24% to inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Feather Sound sells for about $230K
The median property tax bill is $4,153, against $2,730 across Florida, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Feather Sound’s median rent is $1,783 a month. In Feather Sound, the typical sale closed at 95.1% of the list price. Homes sold in Feather Sound spent a median 117 days on the market.
| Feather Sound | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,783 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 67% | 72% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Feather Sound
Colleges nearby
10 within 15 miles of the center of Feather Sound
About 7 of every 100 Feather Sound residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Florida.
Every workday, about 4,585 people come to Feather Sound for work
Where Feather Sound’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Feather Sound
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
Feather Sound is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, Feather Sound had a population of 3,607. It includes the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport.
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- Area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 6 ft
- Area code
- 727
Feather Sound’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Feather Sound.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feather Sound | #148 | B− | D− | — | B | A |
| St. Petersburg | #417 | C− | D | D | B | B+ |
Feather Sound reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Feather Sound with a neighbor →
Questions about Feather Sound
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Feather Sound, FL a good place to live?
Feather Sound grades B− overall, better than 52% of U.S. towns and #148 of 634 in Florida. It grades A for health and B for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Feather Sound, FL expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $416,000, 11% above the Florida typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.