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A town of contrasts. Bradfordville’s overall grade of B puts it better than 55% of U.S. towns, 123rd of 634 in Florida. Health is its strong suit: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 96% of the country. Incomes are a strength too: the median household earns $133K. What counts against it is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $383K, 5.9 years of the Tallahassee metro’s $65K median household income. It also trails on walkability (C−). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. Hazard risk is weaker too — FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 79% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · FEMA National Risk Index.
Where Bradfordville beats most towns.
Where Bradfordville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Bradfordville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 14 old photos and papers going back to 2018 and 3 maps from 1963 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bradfordville. Close and well known come first.
11 mi Stadium & arenaDoak Campbell Stadium
29 mi Park & preserveSt. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
34 mi LighthouseSt. Marks Light
36 mi National forestApalachicola National Forest
17 mi MuseumPebble Hill Plantation
14 mi MuseumTallahassee MuseumDoak Campbell Stadium: Mlsquad, CC BY-SA 4.0 · St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge: Tim Ross, Public domain · St. Marks Light: MaheshGonela, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Apalachicola National Forest: Sallicio, Public domain · Pebble Hill Plantation: Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tallahassee Museum: Tim Ross, Public domain
Bradfordville is unincorporated, so Leon 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Bradfordville.
Bradfordville has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns, has less food insecurity than most of Florida and has household incomes well above the Florida norm.
Its widest gap with Florida is food insecurity: 6.9% of its 14,381 adults worry about having enough food, against 16.8% statewide.
For adults in Bradfordville, the share who have been diagnosed with depression is 17%. Bradfordville: 8.4% of adults smoke cigarettes, where Florida’s towns sit at 13% and U.S. towns at 14%. Only 6 of the 636 Florida towns we compare have a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Bradfordville. CDC measures, 31 in all: Bradfordville beats Florida on 20 and trails on 2.
| Bradfordville | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 25% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 20% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.4% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Bradfordville | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.9% | 16.8% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.6% | 15.9% |
| More binge drinkers | 17.4% | 14.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its three schools are below. The largest public high school is Lawton Chiles High School, with 1,881 students. The public schools here belong to the Leon school district.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deerlake Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 876 | A |
| Lawton Chiles High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,881 | A− |
| Killearn Lakes Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 740 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within FL on state tests and graduation
Across 6 parks and preserves: 19 miles of trail. Bradfordville’s trail density stands at 0.8 miles per square mile, above both the Florida town median (0.4) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4).
| Bradfordville | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.6% | 3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Tekesta Park | — | 10 |
| 2. Pimlico Park | — | 7 |
| 3. Monkey Business Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
FEMA puts 38% of Bradfordville’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 27% to hurricanes. Paid flood insurance claims locally since 2016: 3.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Jobs based here grew from 1,701 in 2013 to 2,874. 23.8% of workers work from home, against 15.7% across Florida.
The top destinations are Tallahassee (69%), Jacksonville (2%) and Tampa (1%). Commuting out is the norm in Bradfordville: 5% of working residents work locally. Since 2013, Bradfordville has added 1,173 jobs, to 2,874 in 2023. Among residents here, 3.6% live below the poverty line.
| Bradfordville | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $133,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.6% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The Tallahassee Ap weather station, 15 miles away, records that about 128 days a year reach 90°, more than in 95% of U.S. towns. The Tallahassee Ap weather station, 15 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 255 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 96% of Florida places with climate records.
The July high for Bradfordville comes to 92°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On the market in Bradfordville: a median 58 days to sell. In Bradfordville, 91% of households live in a home they own. Its rent at the middle of the market is $1,881 a month.
| Bradfordville | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 91% | 72% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,881 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
3 within 15 miles of the center of Bradfordville
About 5 of every 100 Bradfordville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Florida.
Unincorporated community in Florida, U.S.
Bradfordville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northern Leon County, Florida, United States. The population was 19,183 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is both 8 miles (13 km) north of Tallahassee and south of the Florida/Georgia state line at the intersection of US 319 and County Road 0342 (Bannerman Road/Bradfordville Road).
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One town shares a border with Bradfordville.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradfordville | #123 | B | C− | — | B− | A+ |
| Tallahassee | #478 | C− | C− | D | B− | B |
Bradfordville reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Bradfordville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Bradfordville grades B overall, better than 55% of U.S. towns and #123 of 634 in Florida. It grades A+ for health and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $383,000, 2% above 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 C−.
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