Census-designated place · Escambia County, Florida

Gonzalez, Florida

Gonzalez is a census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida, part of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area. It has 14,458 residents. Gonzalez, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 33 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,460 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #504 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), child poverty rate (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), drug overdose deaths (high) and injury deaths (high).

33Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,460 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #504 of 780 in FL
Population: 14,458 (2020-2024)
Land area: 15 mi²
Density: 954.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 1226700

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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#13,820/15,637
Economy72#4,370/15,631
Housing16#12,617/14,977
Health34#10,317/15,609
Healthcare29#11,170/15,650
Environment24#11,791/15,453
Education61#6,038/15,649
Infrastructure80#3,081/15,650
Community23#12,065/15,651
Leisure & amenities62#5,931/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Distance to an airport · low8 mi
97/100Florida 21 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauEscambia County value
Child poverty rate · low3.7%
91/100Florida 15.7%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Comfortable days · high32.8%
89/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationEscambia County value
Poverty rate · low4.2%
87/100Florida 12.1%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Florida 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEscambia County value
Broadband subscriptions · high95.8%
85/100Florida 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Weaknesses

Rent-burdened households · high61.3%
3/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Drug overdose deaths · high38.5 /100k
4/100Florida 15.5 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataEscambia County value
Injury deaths · high133 /100k
8/100Florida 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEscambia County value
Natural hazard risk · high91.1
9/100Florida 75.92025Federal Emergency Management AgencyEscambia County value
Rent as share of income · high32.5%
10/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Flu vaccinations · low32.0%
11/100Florida 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEscambia County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
46.3% (2015-2019) → 61.3% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+53%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
6.7% (2015-2019) → 12.4% (2020-2024)
+5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
90.3% (2015-2019) → 95.8% (2020-2024)
+5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
34.8% (2015-2019) → 29.8% (2020-2024)
−5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
29.0% (2015-2019) → 32.5% (2020-2024)
+3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Gonzalez, Florida improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 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

Broadband+5.5 points90.3% → 95.8%

Declined2

Uninsured+5.7 points6.7% → 12.4%
Price / income+1.2×2.2× → 3.4×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Gonzalez, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.1 min2015-2019	22.7 min2020-2024	−1.5 min	Within the margin of error	65%
Bachelor's degree or higher	34.8%2015-2019	29.8%2020-2024	−5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Broadband subscriptions	90.3%2015-2019	95.8%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Improved	35%
Effective property tax rate	0.78%2015-2019	0.64%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%
High school diploma or higher	93.8%2015-2019	96.0%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3782015-2019	0.4102020-2024	+0.033	Within the margin of error	25%
Median household income	$77,4922015-2019	$82,0622020-2024	+5.9%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	3.2%2015-2019	4.2%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Rent as share of income	29.0%2015-2019	32.5%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Rent-burdened households	46.3%2015-2019	61.3%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.7%2015-2019	12.4%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Declined	9%

“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 Gonzalez, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Gonzalez, 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, Gonzalez, Florida itself moved −11 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

14,458 residents (±1,452)

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

5,436 households (±519)

Gonzalez, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k10%†560
$25k–50k14%†748
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,436 households (±519)

Gonzalez, Florida
Florida share

Own82%4,465
Rent18%†971

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

7,096 workers (±837)

Gonzalez, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone79%5,621
Carpool8.8%†624
Public transit0.0%†2

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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, 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 Escambia County, the county holding most of Gonzalez's residents.

Escambia County has 7,650 employer establishments, 233 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 0.83× Florida's), with 120,709 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,193. The Census Bureau also counts 29,296 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 7,650; 29,296 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 233; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 120,709
Average annual pay: $55,193; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	768	23.3	1.12×About typical	8,962	$90,258	1,448
Restaurants and other eating places	521	15.8	0.86×About typical	12,747	$23,106	123
Specialty trade contractors	518	15.7	1.02×About typical	6,677	$57,149	1,894
Lessors of real estate	399	12.1	0.98×About typical	1,527	$50,356	2,706
Offices of physicians	294	8.9	1.38×More than typical	4,534	$123,386	323
Construction of buildings	257	7.8	1.03×About typical	1,812	$85,794	918
Services to buildings and dwellings	253	7.7	1.14×About typical	1,982	$31,160	2,565
Limited-service restaurants	247	7.5	0.94×About typical	5,410	$18,999	50
Full-service restaurants	218	6.6	0.86×About typical	6,579	$26,790	45
Offices of other health practitioners	212	6.4	1.06×About typical	988	$51,796	521
Religious organizations	200	6.1	1.10×About typical	2,841	$27,648	—
Legal services	187	5.7	1.06×About typical	1,557	$90,024	199

Rank places for an industry Open Escambia County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 328,990 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 $7,915 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Gonzalez, Florida: $0.55 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $7,915; −14% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.55; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 20%; 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. Fish and Wildlife Service$6,17978%
Defense Logistics Agency$1,14114%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$5957.5%

Top recipients

KINGLINE EQUIPMENT, INC.$6,17978%
YURIS DESIGNER DISCOUNTS LLC$1,41518%
BUTLER FOODS, INC$5957.5%
PARADIGM PARACHUTE AND DEFENSE INC-$2740.0%

Spending by fiscal year

974.8KFY2017
363.5KFY2018
197.8KFY2019
-1.9MFY2020
6.3KFY2021
-6.4MFY2022
2MFY2023
525.2KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing · 3331$6,17978%
Printing and related support activities · 3231$1,22315%
Other food manufacturing · 3119$5957.5%
Footwear manufacturing · 3162$1261.6%
Electric lighting equipment manufacturing · 3351$63.020.8%
Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$3.080.0%

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 Gonzalez, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Gonzalez, Florida's figures are part of those of Escambia County, FL ($259M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Escambia 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.

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

House

Jimmy PatronisR-FL-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.2%

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.

Escambia County44100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL43

Other cities and towns in Escambia 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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