Bradfordville, Florida

Area Profile

18,953 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Bradfordville, in Leon County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 42% of 3,904 published cities60
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
ClimateTop 26% of 4,223 published cities76
Physical resilience2671st of 4,182 published cities46
AccessTop 35% of 4,226 published cities95
Economic stabilityTop 8% of 4,226 published cities80
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.0% and median household income $133,359, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 17% of median household income and the median home is 2.9 times it.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
18,953
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$133,359
Top 7% nationally
Density
912/sq mi
20.8 sq mi of land
Median age
41.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Leon County
Florida
Metro area
Tallahassee, FL
Nearest major airport
TLH
15 mi · Tallahassee Intl
Median home value
$383,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.0% is lower than 25% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.5% over the past year, to 155,970 employed residents.

58% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 92% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 93% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$10,719$133,359Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,666$59,973Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.6%Bottom 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.4 minTop 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher57.5%Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment155,970Top 33%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.5%Top 41%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.5%Top 44%June 2026
Labor force164,213Top 33%June 2026
Labor force participation68.0%Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,560Bottom 13%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,520Bottom 11%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.8%Top 14%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 25%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024133k112k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $133,359 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 — Tallahassee, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Management Analysts6,160$58,860
Fast Food and Counter Workers5,600$27,600
Retail Salespersons5,130$30,330
General and Operations Managers4,360$95,250
Office Clerks, General3,710$38,360
Cashiers3,520$29,180

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Leon County, FL, which contains this city.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,881 takes 17% 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
16.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,881
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$383,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.87Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate91.4%Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4256,894Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$158$1,881Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,182$383,300Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.9%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.2%Bottom 20%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

7 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 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 58.8 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TALLAHASSEE, 14.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND7.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index59.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation58.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing30°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
59
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
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

46 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HurricaneElevated
Inland floodingModerate
WildfireModerate
LightningModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, tornado, heat wave, strong wind, earthquake, winter weather, hail, drought, coastal flooding.

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.

Leon County records 8.1 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 14.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.1 per 100,000 residents in Leon County.

Homicide
8.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.5
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 Leon 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 Bradfordville rather than Bradfordville 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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tallahassee IntlTLH15 mi8,000 ft
Valdosta RgnlVLD57 mi8,003 ft
Dothan RgnlDHN90 mi8,500 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 Tallahassee, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
TallahasseeLeon County201,87556vs Bradfordville

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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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
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.