Home to 299,547 people, Crestview, FL is the 170th-largest of the 387 US metropolitan areas. Below: who lives here, which trades are crowded, and where a local advertiser can gain ground.
Officially the Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL metropolitan statistical area, it takes in Crestview, Fort Walton Beach and Destin.
A $81,993 median household income puts Crestview, FL in line with the national figure. Owner-occupied homes carry a median value of $364,100, 9 percent above the national figure; the national comparison point is $332,700. Both figures matter for pricing and for which offers land.
Three quick reads on the people of Crestview, FL. Unemployment 4.1%, 1 points below the US share. A four-year degree or more: 34.9%, about the same as the US share. 71.3% of homes are lived in by their owners, 6 points above the US share. The median resident is 39.3 years old, about the same as the national median.
Compared with Florida: income is 10 percent higher than the Florida figure, home values are about the same as the Florida figure, and business density is 8 percent denser than the Florida figure.
By the Census Bureau's count Crestview, FL supports 9,359 employer establishments. Density runs 31.2 businesses for every 1,000 residents, 25 percent above the national figure. 502 of them are home-services contractors, 5.4% of everything, about the same as the US share. The table breaks out the categories that spend the most on local advertising; restaurants is the biggest of them at 751.
| Business type | Establishments | Per 100k residents | Share ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-storage facilities | 29 | 9.7 | 1.40× |
| Physicians' offices | 316 | 105.5 | 1.29× |
| Other specialty trade contractors (paving, asphalt, fencing) | 60 | 20 | 1.25× |
| Roofing contractors | 34 | 11.4 | 1.19× |
| Landscaping services | 154 | 51.4 | 1.17× |
| Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors | 139 | 46.4 | 1.12× |
| Restaurants and other eating places | 751 | 250.7 | 1.08× |
| Beauty salons | 98 | 32.7 | 1.04× |
| Concrete foundation and structure contractors | 27 | 9 | 1.03× |
| Personal care services (all) | 175 | 58.4 | 0.97× |
| Lessors of real estate (all) | 146 | 48.7 | 0.96× |
| Electrical contractors | 88 | 29.4 | 0.94× |
| Legal services | 171 | 57.1 | 0.84× |
| Automobile dealers | 43 | 14.4 | 0.82× |
| General automotive repair | 63 | 21 | 0.66× |
| Grocery and convenience retailers | 65 | 21.7 | 0.58× |
| Dentists | 87 | 29 | 0.57× |
| Child day care services | 45 | 15 | 0.49× |
| General freight trucking | 41 | 13.7 | 0.31× |
| Highway, street and bridge construction | 3 | 1 | 0.29× |
Reading the index: 1.00 matches the national mix, 1.50 means half again as common here, 0.50 half as common.
Relative to the national mix, self-storage operators, physicians' offices, specialty trade contractors and roofing contractors take up an outsized slice of the Crestview, FL business base. Self-storage operators show it most, with 29 establishments, 1.4 times the share nationwide. Fewer than the national pattern would suggest: road and paving contractors, general freight trucking, child day care services and dentists. Road and paving contractors are the widest shortfall at 3 establishments, about 29% of the US share. In line with the country: plumbing and HVAC contractors, electrical contractors and concrete contractors.
In absolute numbers restaurants lead with 751, followed by physicians' offices at 316 and personal care services at 175. Relative to population the leaders are restaurants (250.7 per 100,000 residents), physicians' offices and personal care services. Grouped, the home-services trades hold about the same as the share they hold nationally, while trucking, storage, real estate and road construction sit at about 69% of.
In the crowded trades (self-storage operators, physicians' offices and specialty trade contractors) the map pack decides more calls than the ads do. Business Profile completeness, review volume and review recency become the separating factors, and paid search has to be tight rather than broad. Thin categories such as road and paving contractors, general freight trucking and child day care services are where the market has room. The searches still happen; there are simply fewer businesses answering them, so the first well-presented operator tends to collect the calls. Homeownership of 71.3% is above the national share; more of the households that search for home services are also the ones that decide and pay. An older-than-average market (median age about the same as the national median) responds to search results, review counts and a phone number that is answered; it is less swayed by feed advertising.
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Crestview, FL has 299,547 residents (US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimate), ranking 170th of 387 metropolitan areas.
The median household income in Crestview, FL is $81,993 (ACS 2024 5-year), above the US median of $80,734.
The Census Bureau counts 9,359 employer establishments in Crestview, FL (County Business Patterns 2023), or 31.2 businesses per 1,000 residents.
The median home value in Crestview, FL is $364,100, and 71.3% of homes are owner-occupied (ACS 2024 5-year).
Measured against the US business mix (County Business Patterns 2023), self-storage operators, physicians' offices and specialty trade contractors have more establishments per resident than the US average; road and paving contractors, general freight trucking and child day care services have fewer in Crestview, FL.
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Data: US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates and County Business Patterns 2023. Updated 2026-09-29.