BellviewFL
A town of 26,488.
Is Bellview a good place to live?
Bellview earns a D, 551st of 634 graded towns in Florida, mostly because of schools. Its public schools trail 83% of Florida towns on state tests and graduation. In its favor, it is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. Bellview’s January low is 43°F, against 51°F in Florida’s towns and 22°F across U.S. towns. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top.
97% of working residents leave Bellview for work
Where Bellview’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Bellview grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Bellview is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Fort Pickens and 13 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bellview. Close and well known come first.
10 mi LandmarkFort Pickens
12 mi Ancient siteUSS Massachusetts
8 mi MuseumNational Naval Aviation Museum
8 mi National SeashoreGulf Islands National Seashore7.6M visitors a year
8 mi LandmarkFort Barrancas16 mi BeachOno IslandPhoto credits
Fort Pickens: Notneb82, CC BY-SA 3.0 · USS Massachusetts: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain · National Naval Aviation Museum: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gulf Islands National Seashore: National Park Service, Public domain · Fort Barrancas: National Park Service, Public domain
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Moving to Bellview: who provides what
Bellview is unincorporated, so Escambia County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Bellview.
Bellview has homes that are cheap against local pay, sends most of its workers to Pensacola and beyond and has a longer frost-free season than most of the country, though not than most of Florida.
Bellview faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
Since 1978, 235 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bellview.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
For schools, Bellview earns a C−
Its public schools are run by the Escambia school district. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellview Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 719 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within FL on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Bellview
Bellview has 2,835 jobs for its 10,465 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Florida.
Most working residents leave Bellview for work: only 3% work in town. Jobs based in Bellview grew to 2,835 in 2023, 521 more than in 2013. Bellview’s average trip to work is 22 minutes.
| Bellview | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 8.9% | 14% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.2% | 5% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Bellview is less healthy than 71% of U.S. towns
Bellview beats the Florida average on 1 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 19% of adults report frequent mental distress in Bellview.
| Bellview | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 32% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 23% |
| What stands out | Bellview | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 12.7% | 15.9% |
| More smokers | 15.7% | 12.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Bellview | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.5% | 3% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Bellview has mild winters and hot summers
The Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas weather station, 8 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 277 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 77% of Florida places with climate records. The Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas weather station, 8 miles away, records that about 56 days a year reach 90°: more than most of the country, but fewer than 85% of Florida places with climate records.
Bellview has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Bellview is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Bellview sells for about $255K
At 2.7 years of the Pensacola metro’s $76K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 92% of Florida towns; that ratio is one input to its B− for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $1,257, against $2,730 across Florida, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Bellview
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Bellview
About 4 of every 100 Bellview residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Florida.
About Bellview
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
Bellview is a census-designated place (CDP) in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is considered to be a community within Pensacola. The population was 25,541 at the 2020 census, up from 23,355 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Elevation
- 89 ft
- Area code
- 850
Bellview’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Bellview.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its D; West Pensacola (D) is closest.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellview | #551 | D | B− | — | C− | C |
| Myrtle Grove | #465 | C− | B− | — | C− | C+ |
| Brent | #468 | C− | B | — | C− | C− |
| West Pensacola | #540 | D | B+ | — | C− | D− |
Bellview, Myrtle Grove, Brent and West Pensacola report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Bellview with a neighbor →
Questions about Bellview
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Bellview, FL a good place to live?
Bellview grades D overall, better than 9% of U.S. towns and #551 of 634 in Florida. It grades C for health and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Bellview, FL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $205,000, 45% below the Florida typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.