County · Florida

Levy County, Florida

Levy County, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 13 out of 100 (very low), ranking #2,722 of 3,143 US counties. Within Florida it ranks #51 of 67 counties. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), new business applications (high) and depression (low). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), distance to an emergency room (high) and students per teacher (high).

13Very low
Quality-of-life score
#2,722 of 3,143 counties
Florida
#51 of 67 in FL
Population
48,520 (2025)
Land area
1,118 mi²
Density
43.4 /mi²
FIPS code
12075

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Levy County, Florida

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety43#1,759/3,096
  • Economy10#2,824/3,143
  • Housing12#2,767/3,140
  • Health37#1,978/3,144
  • Healthcare1#3,122/3,143
  • Environment36#1,987/3,108
  • Education22#2,465/3,144
  • Infrastructure5#2,988/3,144
  • Community35#2,057/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities69#984/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Levy County, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Counties like Levy County, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Levy County, 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area Levy County belongs to. A county is in at most one.

Cities and towns in Levy County

Places whose residents live mostly in Levy County, largest first.

  1. Williston Highlands3,666
  2. Williston3,154
  3. East Bronson2,649
  4. Manatee Road2,426
  5. Chiefland1,909
  6. Inglis1,742
  7. Bronson1,600
  8. Andrews1,275
  9. Fanning Springs942
  10. Cedar Key875
  11. Yankeetown675
  12. East Williston520
  13. Raleigh499
  14. Otter Creek142
  15. Morriston50

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

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