Rank

2452of 3,144

Escambia, Florida

Score 5.60 / 10· population 326,928

Escambia County is the Pensacola area on Florida's Gulf Coast. In September 2020 Hurricane Sally put 5 to 7 feet of water over the ground along its coast and flooded parts of downtown Pensacola 2 to 4 feet deep. The county had 9.3 homicides per 100,000 people a year in 2016 to 2022, against 6.4 statewide, and 33 percent of its children lived with a single parent in 2019 to 2023, against 27 percent in Florida.

Sources
  • Escambia County is part of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL metro area datausa.io
  • Escambia County, Florida has coast on the northern Gulf coast nhc.noaa.gov
  • Hurricane Sally (September 2020): surge and tide produced maximum inundation of 5 to 7 ft above ground level along the coasts of Baldwin County, Alabama, and Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Florida nhc.noaa.gov
  • Freshwater and storm surge flooding from Sally produced 2 to 4 ft of inundation in parts of Downtown Pensacola nhc.noaa.gov
  • Homicides per 100,000 population: Escambia County 9.3, Florida 6.4 (County Health Rankings 2025 release) countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings homicides measure uses 2016-2022 data countyhealthrankings.org
  • Children in single-parent households: Escambia County 33.4 percent, Florida 27.4 percent (County Health Rankings 2025 release) countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings children in single-parent households measure uses 2019-2023 ACS five-year data countyhealthrankings.org

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)7.6
  2. 2A (state)8.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President6.0
  4. Sales tax3.2
  5. Property tax6.9

Environment

  1. Air quality5.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate4.3
  2. Life expectancy3.2
  3. Government employees9.2
  4. Single-parent households1.4

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