Home age in ZIP 33901, Fort Myers, FL: median built 1978

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 33901 in Fort Myers, FL: median home built 1978; 80.9% of homes (9,473) are older than 25 years and 6.3% (741) were built since 2010, out of 11,709 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 33901.

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Share of homes in ZIP 33901 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 6.6 percent; 1940s 2.6 percent; 1950s 11.1 percent; 1960s 13.3 percent; 1970s 19.5 percent; 1980s 19.4 percent; 1990s 8.4 percent; 2000s 12.8 percent; 2010s 4.7 percent; 2020+ 1.6 percentpre-1940: 768 homes, 6.6%6.6%pre-1940Lee County: 0.6%1940s: 308 homes, 2.6%2.6%1940sLee County: 0.4%1950s: 1,299 homes, 11.1%11.1%1950sLee County: 1.8%1960s: 1,562 homes, 13.3%13.3%1960sLee County: 5.0%1970s: 2,281 homes, 19.5%19.5%1970sLee County: 12.9%1980s: 2,276 homes, 19.4%19.4%1980sLee County: 20.5%1990s: 979 homes, 8.4%8.4%1990sLee County: 16.2%2000s: 1,495 homes, 12.8%12.8%2000sLee County: 29.2%2010s: 555 homes, 4.7%4.7%2010sLee County: 11.4%2020+: 186 homes, 1.6%1.6%2020+Lee County: 1.9%Built 1999 or earlier: 80.9% of homes (9,473)ZIP 33901, built before 2000built 2000 or laterLee County

Share of the 11,709 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Lee County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 33901 next to Fort Myers and Lee County

IndicatorZIP 33901Fort MyersLee CountyRank among 2 ZIPs of Fort Myers on this site
Housing units11,70947,068430,243
Median year built197820011995
Built before 198053.1%25.3%20.7%
Built before 200080.9%no data57.4%
Built since 20106.3%no data13.4%
Owner-occupied homes44.3%49.4%74%
Single-family units36.1%46.1%no data
Median home value$280,400 (+/- $25,132)$351,600$326,300
Median household income$51,579 (+/- $5,844)$62,160no data

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 33901

BuiltShare of Lee CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 33901
2020+1.9%1.6%186
2010s11.4%4.7%555
2000s29.2%12.8%1,495
1990s16.2%8.4%979
1980s20.5%19.4%2,276
1970s12.9%19.5%2,281
1960s5.0%13.3%1,562
1950s1.8%11.1%1,299
1940s0.4%2.6%308
pre-19400.6%6.6%768

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 33901

ZIP 33901 has 11,709 housing units: 9,473 (80.9%) were built before 2000, 741 (6.3%) in 2010 or later, and 2,281 (19.5%) in the 1970s, its largest era. The median year built is 1978 (Fort Myers: 2001), so 23 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 44.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 36.1% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $280,400, give or take $25,132; median household income is $51,579, give or take $5,844; the ZIP holds 24.9% of the housing units the Census counts in Fort Myers, 11,709 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 8,494 units (72.5%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 979 (8.4%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 1,495 (12.8%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 741 (6.3%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 33901

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

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–of homes in ZIP 33901 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 33901 among Fort Myers’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 33901 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 33904: 20,401 homes, 84.4% built before 2000, median year 198133904ZIP 33990: 15,483 homes, 68.2% built before 2000, median year 199333990ZIP 33909: 14,051 homes, 32.3% built before 2000, median year 200433909ZIP 33916: 12,480 homes, 56.9% built before 2000, median year 199433916ZIP 33991: 11,563 homes, 37.5% built before 2000, median year 200433991ZIP 33901: 11,709 homes, 80.9% built before 2000, median year 197833901
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  • 40 to 60%
  • 80% or more
  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 33901. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Closest ZIP areas

ZIPMilesMedian builtPre-2000
339162.8 NE199456.9%
339904.1 W199368.2%
339045.1 SW198184.4%
339917.9 W200437.5%
339098.4 NW200432.3%
339149.8 SW199953.1%

Distance is between Census ZIP centres.

Storm backdrop: Lee County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Lee County Relatively High overall (99.0 of 100), Very Low for hail (24.3), Relatively Moderate for strong wind (64.9) and Relatively Moderate for tornado (87.5). NOAA logged 18 hail reports in the county, on 10 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 33901: Cape Coral, FL (6 miles), Sarasota, FL (63 miles), Lakeland, FL (98 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 33901?

Of the 11,709 housing units, 6,218 (53.1%) were built before 1980, 9,473 (80.9%) before 2000 and 741 (6.3%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 33901?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 6,218 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Which nearby ZIP has the oldest housing?

Of the 6 closest ZIP areas we cover, 33904 (5.1 miles SW) has the largest share built before 2000, 84.4%, against 80.9% in 33901.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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