Rank

2180of 3,144

Jefferson, Florida

Score 5.89 / 10· population 15,450

Jefferson County runs from the Georgia line to the Gulf of Mexico across 609 square miles of farms and timberland, and Monticello, its county seat, is 25 miles east of Tallahassee. Six in ten working residents have jobs in another county. In Census estimates for 2020 to 2024, 42% of children here lived in single-parent households, compared with 27% across Florida, and 21% of residents were below the poverty line.

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  • Jefferson County extends from Georgia on the north to the Gulf coast on the south and covers roughly 609 square miles of farms, ranches, timberland and wild places jeffersoncountyfl.gov
  • Monticello is the county seat and lies 25 miles east of Tallahassee jeffersoncountyfl.gov
  • 62.3% of Jefferson County workers aged 16 and over worked outside their county of residence edr.state.fl.us
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B09005: of 2,589 children in Jefferson County households, 1,075 (41.5%) lived in a male or female householder household with no spouse or partner present api.censusreporter.org
  • Same table for Florida: 1,171,991 of 4,366,148 children (26.8%) lived in a single householder household with no spouse or partner present api.censusreporter.org
  • 21% of Jefferson County residents were below the poverty line (ACS 2024 5-year) censusreporter.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 President5.9
  4. Sales tax3.6
  5. Property tax6.8

Environment

  1. Air quality5.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate6.9
  2. Life expectancy6.2
  3. Government employees5.0
  4. Single-parent households0.8

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