City · Liberty County, Florida

Bristol, Florida

Bristol is a city in Liberty County, Florida. It has 1,020 residents. Bristol, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,277 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #718 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on public libraries (high), reading scores (high) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on flu vaccinations (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and access to exercise opportunities (low).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,277 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #718 of 780 in FL
Population: 1,020 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 622.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 1208600

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 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.

Safety7#14,466/15,637
Economy31#10,833/15,631
Housing25#11,179/14,977
Health21#12,259/15,609
Healthcare7#14,598/15,650
Environment58#6,482/15,453
Education58#6,550/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,195/15,650
Community10#14,055/15,651
Leisure & amenities11#13,997/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bristol, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Liberty 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

Public libraries · high2.5 /10k
94/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLiberty County value
Reading scores · high3.34
91/100Florida 3.17United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLiberty County value
Median Air Quality Index · low33
91/100Florida 422025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyLiberty County value
Job growth · high2.0%
88/100Florida 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLiberty County value
Grocery stores · high2.5 /10k
88/100Florida 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLiberty County value
Comfortable days · high32.3%
88/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLiberty County value

Weaknesses

Flu vaccinations · low14.0%
0/100Florida 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLiberty County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.0 /10k
1/100Florida 5.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLiberty County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low23.1%
1/100Florida 87.8%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLiberty County value
Rent-burdened households · high83.9%
3/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Distance to an Amtrak station · high185 mi
3/100Florida 27 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLiberty County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Florida 6.4 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyLiberty County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
30.6% (2015-2019) → 83.9% (2020-2024)
+53 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
9.2% (2015-2019) → 20.7% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.7% (2015-2019) → 33.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
70.8% (2015-2019) → 79.7% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
1.7 /1k (2021) → 1.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−43%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Unemployment rateImproving
8.4% (2015-2019) → 1.6% (2020-2024)
−6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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.

Over about five years, Bristol, Florida improved on 1 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Bachelor's++11 points9.2% → 20.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Bristol, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.2 min2015-2019	29.2 min2020-2024	+4.0 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.2%2015-2019	20.7%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	93%
Broadband subscriptions	70.8%2015-2019	79.7%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Effective property tax rate	0.89%2015-2019	0.68%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	60%
High school diploma or higher	80.8%2015-2019	82.6%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	55%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4212015-2019	0.4372020-2024	+0.016	Within the margin of error	37%
Median household income	$40,6942015-2019	$47,6892020-2024	+17%	Within the margin of error	27%
Poverty rate	22.0%2015-2019	15.9%2020-2024	−6.1 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Rent as share of income	22.7%2015-2019	33.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.1%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	64%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

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

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bristol, 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.

For comparison, Bristol, Florida itself moved −8.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

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

1,020 residents (±255)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

433 households (±114)

Bristol, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k12%†54
$25k–50k45%†193
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

433 households (±114)

Bristol, Florida
Florida share

Own82%354
Rent18%†79

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+24.1 points).

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

352 workers (±128)

Bristol, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone70%†248
Carpool18%†62
Public transit

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 Liberty County, the county holding most of Bristol's residents.

Liberty County has 86 employer establishments, 110 for every 10,000 residents (0.44× the US rate of 248; 0.39× Florida's), with 1,082 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,848. The Census Bureau also counts 464 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 86; 464 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 110; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 1,082
Average annual pay: $46,848; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	10	12.8	0.83×About typical	24	$40,375	50
Religious organizations	7	9	1.62×Too few to compare	19	$15,421	—
Truck transportation	6	7.7	1.52×Too few to compare	51	$68,569	5
Gasoline stations	5	6.4	1.98×Too few to compare	50	$26,080	—
Ambulatory health care services	4	5.1	0.25×Too few to compare	16	$46,688	17
Construction of buildings	4	5.1	0.68×Too few to compare	7	$49,286	12
Individual and family services	4	5.1	1.83×Too few to compare	166	$44,398	9
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	3	3.8	1.22×Too few to compare	6	$46,333	9
Grocery and convenience stores	3	3.8	1.30×Too few to compare	56	$17,125	—
Other specialty trade contractors	3	3.8	1.53×Too few to compare	6	$43,000	22
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Advertising, public relations and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—

Rank places for an industry Open Liberty County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 7,804 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Liberty 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.

Bristol, 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.

Liberty County15100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Liberty 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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