Census-designated place · Levy County, Florida

East Bronson, Florida

East Bronson is a census-designated place in Levy County, Florida, part of the Gainesville, FL metro area. It has 2,649 residents. East Bronson, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,764 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #693 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on uninsured residents (under 65) (low), unemployment rate (low) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), distance to an emergency room (high) and primary care physicians (low).

12Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,764 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #693 of 780 in FL
Population: 2,649 (2020-2024)
Land area: 11 mi²
Density: 231.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 1219025

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 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.

Safety24#11,867/15,637
Economy26#11,513/15,631
Housing—
Health16#13,052/15,609
Healthcare8#14,435/15,650
Environment50#7,771/15,453
Education32#10,570/15,649
Infrastructure4#15,026/15,650
Community28#11,304/15,651
Leisure & amenities55#7,112/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.0%
100/100Florida 13.7%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Florida 3.9%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Grocery stores · high3.7 /10k
98/100Florida 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLevy County value
Comfortable days · high34.5%
94/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLevy County value
Pharmacies · high2.3 /10k
83/100Florida 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLevy County value
New business applications · high17.6 /1k
81/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauLevy County value

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high38.7 /100k
1/100Florida 15.6 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLevy County value
Distance to an emergency room · high25.4 mi
1/100Florida 4.8 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLevy County value
Primary care physicians · low13 /100k
2/100Florida 73 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLevy County value
Firearm deaths · high30.1 /100k
2/100Florida 12.6 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLevy County value
Rent-burdened households · high53.6%
4/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100Florida 16.3United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationLevy County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,825 (2015-2019) → 2,649 (2020-2024)
+45%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
11.7% (2015-2019) → 46.0% (2020-2024)
+34 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
19.8% (2015-2019) → 53.6% (2020-2024)
+34 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
29.8% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−30 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
61.5% (2015-2019) → 84.3% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
11.6% (2015-2019) → 30.7% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, East Bronson, Florida improved on 2 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 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.

Improved2

Uninsured−30 points29.8% → 0.0%
Broadband+23 points61.5% → 84.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of East Bronson, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	35.5 min2015-2019	35.8 min2020-2024	+0.3 min	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	61.5%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	+23 points	Improved	94%
Effective property tax rate	1.03%2015-2019	0.59%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	87%
High school diploma or higher	81.3%2015-2019	86.4%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3772015-2019	0.4102020-2024	+0.033	Within the margin of error	25%
Median household income	$39,6252015-2019	$51,8982020-2024	+31%	Within the margin of error	58%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	29.8%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−30 points	Improved	100%

“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 East Bronson, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of East Bronson, 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 East Bronson, Florida five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, East Bronson, Florida itself moved +4.3 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

2,649 residents (±656)

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

1,086 households (±204)

East Bronson, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k20%†215
$25k–50k15%†161
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,086 households (±204)

East Bronson, Florida
Florida share

Own90%974
Rent10%†112

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† 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

1,159 workers (±396)

East Bronson, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone75%†867
Carpool13%†151
Public transit

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 Gainesville, 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 Levy County, the county holding most of East Bronson's residents.

Levy County has 886 employer establishments, 190 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.67× Florida's), with 7,282 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,154. The Census Bureau also counts 3,897 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 886; 3,897 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 190; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 7,282
Average annual pay: $37,154; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	96	20.6	1.33×More than typical	414	$46,983	323
Restaurants and other eating places	66	14.1	0.77×Fewer than typical	938	$19,998	23
Limited-service restaurants	35	7.5	0.94×About typical	500	$19,364	8
Ambulatory health care services	34	7.3	0.35×Fewer than typical	263	$56,247	163
Construction of buildings	34	7.3	0.96×About typical	156	$52,814	142
Services to buildings and dwellings	33	7.1	1.05×About typical	108	$31,750	400
Building finishing contractors	31	6.6	1.75×More than typical	106	$33,764	109
Religious organizations	31	6.6	1.20×About typical	110	$22,145	—
Lessors of real estate	30	6.4	0.52×Fewer than typical	91	$33,484	278
Building equipment contractors	28	6	1.00×About typical	120	$46,675	47
Full-service restaurants	25	5.4	0.70×Fewer than typical	410	$21,451	12
Automotive repair and maintenance	24	5.1	1.02×About typical	68	$43,956	74

Rank places for an industry Open Levy County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 46,657 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 $340.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in East Bronson, Florida: $128 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $340.4K; +317% vs FY2025
Per resident: $128; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.2%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

U.S. Coast Guard$339.7K99.8%
Federal Emergency Management Agency$6920.2%

Top recipients

THE HASKELL COMPANY$339.7K99.8%
TRAVIS HOLDER L.L.C$6920.2%

Spending by fiscal year

9.9KFY2019
6.4KFY2020
4MFY2023
103KFY2024
81.6KFY2025
340.4KFY2026

What was bought

Construction & real property$340.4K100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$339.7K99.8%
RV parks and recreational camps · 7212$6920.2%

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 East Bronson, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

East Bronson, Florida's figures are part of those of Levy County, FL ($4.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 7.6% of that total.

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

See federal money in Levy 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.

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

House

Kat CammackR-FL-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.3%

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.

Levy County13100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Gainesville, FL59

Other cities and towns in Levy 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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