Escambia County, Florida

• White (non-Hispanic) 201,136 61.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 22,701 7.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 67,729 20.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 9,137 2.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 22,795 7.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 718 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 352 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,355 0.4%

• Under 18 68,089 20.9%
• 18–24 35,215 10.8%
• 25–44 86,197 26.4%
• 45–64 78,063 24.0%
• 65 and over 58,359 17.9%

Median household income

$66,861

90% interval $63,597–$70,125

−$10,826 vs FL · 35th of 67

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 12.5%–16.5%

+2.4 pp vs FL · 29th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.0%

+0.51 pp vs. state

County GDP

$24.4B

1.41% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,707

Establishments

9,602

• Education & health services 35,758 24.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 27,464 18.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 21,224 14.4%
• Professional & business services 17,730 12.1%
• Financial activities 14,933 10.2%
• Construction 9,460 6.4%
• Public administration 8,647 5.9%
• Other services 5,089 3.5%
• Natural resources & mining 10 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 95.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

64.8%

−2.8 pp vs FL · 60th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,321

−$348 vs FL · 33rd of 67

Owner-occupied

83,586

Renter-occupied

45,441

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 57% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $86,591/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $29,116/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 96,407 59.2%
• Democratic 64,601 39.7%
• Other / third-party 1,746 1.1%

• Spanish 14,051 4.6%
• Tagalog 2,163 0.7%
• Chinese 1,522 0.5%
• Vietnamese 1,285 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 976 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 933 0.3%
• Arabic 770 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 673 0.2%
• Korean 215 0.1%

Households

129,027

Family households

80,068

62.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

17,485

21.8% of families

Single-mother families

8,923

11.1% of families

Veterans

33,582

13.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 104,711 32.5%
• Catholic 26,727 8.3%
• Mainline Protestant 18,478 5.7%
• Black Protestant 14,419 4.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,887 2.1%
• Orthodox 718 0.2%

Health insured

88.3%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

11.7%

±0.7 pp

32nd of 67

With a disability

17.4%

±0.6 pp

30th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

29.7%

±0.9 pp

−4.4 pp vs FL · 27th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

12.4%

90% interval 11.4%–13.4% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

1st Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

21 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); County Court judges (limited jurisdiction: claims ≤ $50,000, misdemeanors, traffic) separate. Vintage 2026 flcourts.gov; statutory judgeships are reauthorized annually by the Florida Supreme Court's certification of need under Fla. Stat. § 26.031 and may shift by ±1-2 between sessions. Counts for smaller rural circuits (3rd, 16th) are statutory minimums per § 26.031.)

Court seats

Crestview, DeFuniak Springs, Milton, Pensacola

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

61

23.66 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

57