Santa Rosa County, Florida

• White (non-Hispanic) 155,619 78.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13,647 6.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,888 5.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,861 1.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,440 6.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 238 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 368 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,411 0.7%

• Under 18 43,250 21.8%
• 18–24 14,673 7.4%
• 25–44 54,531 27.5%
• 45–64 52,789 26.6%
• 65 and over 33,229 16.7%

Median household income

$88,354

90% interval $83,418–$93,290

+$10,667 vs FL · 7th of 67

Below poverty line

10.3%

90% interval 8.7%–11.9%

−1.8 pp vs FL · 54th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.8%

+0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.9B

0.46% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,276

Establishments

4,657

• Trade, transportation & utilities 10,041 22.5%
• Education & health services 9,521 21.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 7,229 16.2%
• Professional & business services 4,955 11.1%
• Construction 3,970 8.9%
• Public administration 3,176 7.1%
• Financial activities 2,090 4.7%
• Other services 1,447 3.2%
• Natural resources & mining 99 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 95.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.6%

+13.0 pp vs FL · 16th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,544

−$125 vs FL · 23rd of 67

Owner-occupied

58,531

Renter-occupied

14,074

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% 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 (Professional & business services, $76,897/yr) pays 2.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,728/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.6 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 84,314 75.0%
• Democratic 27,035 24.0%
• Other / third-party 1,075 1.0%

• Spanish 6,050 3.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 786 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 728 0.4%
• Tagalog 721 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 582 0.3%
• Chinese 575 0.3%
• Korean 426 0.2%
• Vietnamese 76 0.0%
• Arabic 34 0.0%

Households

72,605

Family households

52,299

72.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

16,535

31.6% of families

Single-mother families

2,953

5.6% of families

Veterans

24,742

16.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 55,034 29.3%
• Catholic 15,635 8.3%
• Mainline Protestant 10,611 5.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,943 2.1%
• Black Protestant 1,252 0.7%

Health insured

89.8%

±1.2 pp

Uninsured

10.2%

±1.2 pp

46th of 67

With a disability

15.4%

±0.8 pp

44th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

32.0%

±1.3 pp

−2.1 pp vs FL · 23rd of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.8%

90% interval 8.9%–10.7% · 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

27

17.39 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

27