Census-designated place · Leon County, Florida

Bradfordville, Florida

Bradfordville is a census-designated place in Leon County, Florida, part of the Tallahassee, FL metro area. It has 18,953 residents. Bradfordville, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 64 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,576 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #160 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on child poverty rate (low), poor or fair health (low) and food insecurity (low). It ranks worst on dental care shortage (high), distance to an Amtrak station (high) and violent crime rate (high).

64High

Quality-of-life score: #5,576 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #160 of 780 in FL
Population: 18,953 (2020-2024)
Land area: 21 mi²
Density: 912.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 1208075

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety12#13,761/15,637
Economy98#283/15,631
Housing50#7,469/14,977
Health86#2,236/15,609
Healthcare37#9,848/15,650
Environment29#11,005/15,453
Education92#1,244/15,649
Infrastructure62#5,968/15,650
Community47#8,284/15,651
Leisure & amenities74#3,997/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bradfordville, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Leon County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Child poverty rate · low3.2%
97/100Florida 15.7%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Poor or fair health · low11.0%
95/100Florida 19.6%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Food insecurity · low7.3%
95/100Florida 17.9%United States 15.6%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Broadband subscriptions · high97.7%
95/100Florida 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Physical inactivity · low15.1%
95/100Florida 25.5%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.1%
94/100Florida 9.8%United States 8.3%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Dental care shortage · high19.0
3/100Florida 7.6United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationLeon County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high152 mi
4/100Florida 27 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLeon County value
Violent crime rate · high577 /100k
6/100Florida 261 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationLeon County value
Drought exposure · high88%
7/100Florida 78%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAALeon County value
Rent-burdened households · high29.9%
8/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Property crime rate · high2,155 /100k
11/100Florida 1,176 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationLeon County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
55.5% (2016-2020) → 29.9% (2020-2024)
−26 pts4 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.1% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
32.4% (2016-2020) → 22.1% (2020-2024)
−10 pts4 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.6% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
63.3% (2016-2020) → 57.5% (2020-2024)
−5.7 pts4 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.9% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$105,072 (2016-2020) → $133,359 (2020-2024)
+27%4 yearsCensus table B19013US $67,340 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2016-2020) → 2.9× (2020-2024)
+16%4 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
5.6% (2016-2020) → 3.2% (2020-2024)
−2.4 pts4 yearsCensus table B17001US 15.7% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

There is not enough history to compare Bradfordville, Florida over five years.

Cities and towns like Bradfordville, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bradfordville, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Bradfordville, Florida five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

18,953 residents (±1,181)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69
50–59
40–49
30–39
20–29
10–19
Under 10

Share of all residents, each sex

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

18,953 residents (±1,181)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

White81%15,319
Black5.0%†939
Hispanic or Latino5.5%†1,049

Education

12,651 residents (±844)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

No high school diploma2.1%†271
High school or GED13%1,594
Some college14%1,728

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

6,675 households (±429)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k5.6%†372
$25k–50k5.3%†356
$50k–75k8.7%579
$75k–100k12%†831
$100k–150k27%1,792
$150k–200k18%1,231
$200k or more23%1,514

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

6,675 households (±429)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Own91%6,103
Rent8.6%†572

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

522 households (±186)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,0000.0%0
$1,000–1,50012%†63

Home values

6,103 homes (±385)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Under $150k1.8%†109
$150k–250k11%†655
$250k–400k43%2,596

Age of homes

6,894 homes (±425)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

2010 or later9.9%683
2000–200918%1,211
1980–199964%4,399
1960–1979

Size of homes

6,894 homes (±425)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Studio0.9%†60
1 bedroom0.2%†12
2 bedrooms2.2%†150

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

9,581 workers (±843)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone70%6,727
Carpool5.3%503
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home24%2,285
Other0.7%†66

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

7,296 workers (±648)

Bradfordville, Florida
Florida share

Under 15 min11%812
15–29 min41%2,986
30–44 min37%2,700
45–59 min

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Tallahassee, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Leon County, the county holding most of Bradfordville's residents.

Leon County has 8,163 employer establishments, 274 for every 10,000 residents (1.10× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Florida's), with 107,646 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,496. The Census Bureau also counts 26,676 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 8,163; 26,676 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 274; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 107,646
Average annual pay: $55,496; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Leon County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	635	21.3	1.02×About typical	8,499	$77,029	1,537
Restaurants and other eating places	605	20.3	1.10×About typical	12,868	$20,783	132
Specialty trade contractors	460	15.4	1.00×About typical	4,250	$52,012	1,240
Lessors of real estate	437	14.6	1.19×About typical	2,264	$49,558	2,580
Legal services	347	11.6	2.16×More than typical	2,454	$127,648	390
Management, scientific and technical consulting	333	11.2	1.66×More than typical	2,694	$137,128	1,305
Limited-service restaurants	290	9.7	1.21×About typical	6,121	$18,149	53
Services to buildings and dwellings	283	9.5	1.41×More than typical	2,573	$30,293	1,901
Computer systems design and related services	271	9.1	2.10×More than typical	2,307	$89,028	322
Full-service restaurants	249	8.3	1.09×About typical	5,804	$23,446	48
Offices of physicians	224	7.5	1.16×About typical	3,035	$108,316	245
Construction of buildings	220	7.4	0.98×About typical	1,209	$69,303	588

Rank places for an industry Open Leon County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 298,310 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $8M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bradfordville, Florida: $421 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $8M; −5.3% vs FY2025
Per resident: $421; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.5%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.8%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

NOVA TECHNOLOGIES AN EMPLOYEE-OWNED ENGINEERING COMPANY$7.5M94%
EDGE TECHNOLOGY DISTRIBUTORS, INC.$396.7K5.0%
INSILICOM LLC$64.5K0.8%
JDI VENTURES LLC$20.3K0.3%
SUMMIT FLEET MANAGEMENT, LLC$4,6610.1%

Spending by fiscal year

397.9KFY2017
475.5KFY2018
763.7KFY2019
742.4KFY2020
7.1MFY2021
11.4MFY2022
11.8MFY2023
9.8M

Top industries (NAICS)

Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$7.5M94%
Communications equipment manufacturing · 3342$186.2K2.3%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$77.4K1.0%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$65.6K0.8%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$64.5K0.8%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bradfordville, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Bradfordville, Florida's figures are part of those of Leon County, FL ($122.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 6.5% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bradfordville is mostly in Leon County.

See federal money in Leon County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bradfordville, Florida is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Neal P. DunnR-FL-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 18.4%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Leon County54100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tallahassee, FL45

Other cities and towns in Leon County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

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Trends

What changed in five years

Cities and towns like Bradfordville, Florida five years ago that improved