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Pensacola is a medium-sized coastal community in Escambia county, Florida's panhandle and known as Florida's Western Gate. With a population of just under 54,000 residents and 71 neighborhoods, Pensacola is the 65th largest community in Florida.

Pensacola lacks a public transit system to get to and from work, buy groceries, or take the kids to their doctor's appointment, so you'll want a car. Regardless of the means by which you commute around town, Pensacola is notable in that residents have a long commute to work than most places, with a commute time from home to work for those of us who live here between 15 and 30 minutes on average.

The "UFO House" out on Pensacola Beach is actually?a prefabricated "Futuro" house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen and completed in 1966. Its withstood more hurricanes than I can count since erected, which is appropriate since the portable space age structure was originally conceived as a ski cabin.

After completion the experimental design was?hyped as?the home of the future, but only less than 100 were ever built, and around 60 still remain. This Futuro?now houses the Pensacola Beach Preservation and Historical Society Headquarters.

Pensacola, isn't a huge city like you will find on the Gold Coast, but it has a lot of people with undergraduate and graduate degrees in their 20s and 30s who are educated, and career starters. This makes Pensacola a pretty good place to find people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun!

Pensacola has more artists, and designers than most places across the country. Freelancers are another relatively large group of the workers in Pensacola. If you're lucky enough to work from home, why not live where there is a beach?

The average rental price in Pensacola is between $1400 and $2300 a month, while the average rental cost is lower than 48 percent of other towns and cities in Florida.

Pensacola is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation with nearly 41 percent of adults having at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just under 22 percent with a bachelor's degree or higher. Of course, these days when you get a higher education it comes with a lot of debt! So, if you're someone who falls into this scenario, consider your options long before thinking about purchasing a home, and even before the ink is dry on your student loan note!

There are two measures for understanding income: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income.

The per capita income in Pensacola last reported was nearly $44,000, which is upper middle income class income in Florida. This equates to an annual income of $176,000 for a family of four, while over 22 percent of the children live below the federal poverty line. Simply put, we can do better and that begins with a good education!

Pensacola Junior College

University of West Florida

Pensacola State College

Median real estate price in Pensacola is just under $330,000.

Pensacola is a coastal community, and well within the low down payment FHA 203K Renovation Home Loan Program.

Real estate in Pensacola is primarily made up of medium sized three or four bedroom single-family and manufactured homes, with a average mix of owners and renters. Many of the residences in Pensacola are older, established, built between 1970 to present day.

Today, sixty-nine neighborhoods with lots of land and ocean views, make up the city of Pensacola.

City Center

Sunny Ridge

Sanders Beach

West Pointe Heritage

Eastside

East Downtown

East Hill

Historic 12th Avenue

Precinct 50

Goulding

Southeast Pensacola

East Pensacola Heights

Mallory Heights

Woodland Heights

Walden

Brittany Forge

Plantation Park

Dunmire Woods - Scenic Heights

Baywoods

Ridgefield

Northpointe - Harbour Square

Oakhurst

Olive

Brent North

Brent

Brentwood Park

Englewood Heights

Britton Place

Pinecrest

Highland Park

Brownsville

Westerly Heights

Wedgewood

Navy Point

Warrington

Pensacola Station

Perdido Key Coves

Chandelle

Chevalier

Treasure Hill Park

Gulf Beach Heights

South Blue Angel Pkwy

Grand Bahama Dr

Paradise Beach

Perdido Heights

Millview

Warrington West

Myrtle Grove

Myrtle Grove East

Myrtle Grove South

Heritage Lake

Beach Haven

Twin Oaks

West Pensacola

South Pensacola

Pinecrest

Highland Park

Englewood Heights

Britton Place

Wildewood

Mayfair

Marcus Lake

Crescent Lake

Bellview North

Pensacola Heights

Bellview East

Bellview Southeast

Bellview South Bellview

Ramsey Beach

Springfield Nature Trail

Beulah

Pine Forest

Ensley

Ensley South

East Ensley

North Central Pensacola

Ferry Pass

Ferry Pass North

Riverview

Scenic Hills Country Club Estates

Gonzalez

North Northwest Pensacola

Pensacola vacancy rates vary for each neighborhood, but on average are lower and vary between under 8 to almost 10 percent, and well within average compared to other towns and cities.

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Christa jones

Transportation Specialist

5 个月

Hey. I'm not sure, but you look like you've been here a long time in Pensacola, but they do have a city bus. I'm not trying to be crazy I just had read that and I just didn't want the other human beings. Having the wrong information, you know god bless

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Wes McKibbon

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5 个月

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