Bellview, Florida

Area Profile

26,488 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Bellview, in Escambia County.

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How this area ranks
Schools2362nd of 2,668 published cities20
Housing affordabilityTop 35% of 4,223 published cities88
ClimateTop 16% of 4,223 published cities81
Physical resilience3777th of 4,182 published cities14
Access3691st of 4,226 published cities70
Economic stability2915th of 4,226 published cities50
The quick read

In the public schools here, 36% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 17.6 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 2.9 times that income.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, tornado and coastal flooding.

At a glance

Population
26,488
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$69,890
Top 46% nationally
Density
2,274/sq mi
11.6 sq mi of land
Median age
37.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Escambia County
Florida
Metro area
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
Nearest major airport
CEW
52 mi · Bob Sikes
Median home value
$205,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,714$69,890Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,664$32,098Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate15.4%Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute24.0 minBottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher20.1%Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation64.1%Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$58,620Bottom 10%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,240Bottom 9%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202470k59k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $69,890 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers6,970$28,360
Retail Salespersons6,720$31,870
Registered Nurses5,070$77,890
Cashiers4,690$29,910
Waiters and Waitresses4,260$35,340
Office Clerks, General4,160$39,960

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

36% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 43% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
36.5%
Bottom 15% in Florida
Reading proficiency
43.3%
Bottom 22% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLESCAMBIA1,60419.6
BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOLESCAMBIA1,07021.440%49%
BEULAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLESCAMBIA88917.154%57%
BELLVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLESCAMBIA71916.717%22%
LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLESCAMBIA54516.537%42%
BELLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLESCAMBIA51315.125%34%
BEULAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE · charterESCAMBIA31816.737%52%
SUCCESS ACADEMYESCAMBIA23610.7
GEORGE STONE TECHNICAL COLLEGEESCAMBIA0

56.1% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Florida’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

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Median rent of $1,344 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
23.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,344
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$205,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.94Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.5%Bottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±54511,647Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$71$1,344Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,743$205,300Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.1%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.6%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 92°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 68.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 43, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PENSACOLA RGNL AP, 7.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND7.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index59.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation68.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index43.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing30°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
43
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
59
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

14 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, tornado and coastal flooding.

HurricaneElevated
Coastal floodingModerate
TornadoModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, heat wave, inland flooding, wildfire, cold wave, earthquake, winter weather, hail, drought, strong wind, landslide, ice storm.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Escambia County records 6.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 37.3 per 100,000 residents in Escambia County.

Homicide
6.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
37.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Escambia County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Bellview rather than Bellview itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 52 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Bob SikesCEW52 mi8,006 ft
Mobile RgnlMOB58 mi8,502 ft
Northwest Florida Beaches IntlECP90 mi10,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PensacolaEscambia County54,03653vs Bellview
NavarreSanta Rosa County39,838vs Bellview
Ferry PassEscambia County30,053vs Bellview
PaceSanta Rosa County26,282vs Bellview
BrentEscambia County23,813vs Bellview
EnsleyEscambia County23,760vs Bellview
MidwaySanta Rosa County21,317vs Bellview
West PensacolaEscambia County20,665vs Bellview
WarringtonEscambia County15,918vs Bellview
Myrtle GroveEscambia County15,595vs Bellview
East MiltonSanta Rosa County14,783vs Bellview
GonzalezEscambia County14,458vs Bellview

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Bellview

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3252644,680$75,098