Blountstown
Start with Blountstown to understand the established center, nearby services and everyday rhythm within Calhoun County.
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Calhoun
County
Small towns, forests and the Apalachicola River define a quiet inland Panhandle county.
Northwest FloridaPanhandle & Emerald Coast
REGIONPanhandle & Emerald Coast
COMMUNITIES TO START WITHBlountstown · Altha
LIFESTYLE SIGNALSRiver country · Rural · Close-knit
Start with daily life
What Calhoun County feels like before you choose a neighborhood.
Small towns, forests and the Apalachicola River define a quiet inland Panhandle county.
Use this guide as a first-pass planning tool. On a scouting trip, compare actual commute routes, insurance requirements, medical access, school or training options and the places you would use in an ordinary week—not only the best-known attraction.
The numbers that matter if you are moving
- Population
- 13,492Census estimate
- At the last full count
- 13,6482020 Census
- Median age
- 42.2
- Aged 65 and over
- 18.6%
- Under 18
- 19.8%
- Median household income
- $50,517
- Median home value
- $145,300what owners estimate
- Homeownership
- 78.8%
- People per household
- 2.53
- Average commute
- 29.9 minutes
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, published January 2026, read September 19, 2026. Survey figures are estimates; median home value is what owners estimate their home is worth, not a sale price.
COUNTY LIFESTYLE THEMES
River countryRuralClose-knit
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Altha
Use Altha to compare housing patterns, main-road access and the shopping or medical stops used during a normal week.
Hospitals in Calhoun County
One hospital with an emergency room.
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Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder, Locate a Facility (hospitals), read September 25, 2026.
Evergreen county experiences
6 places that reveal the county.
Use enduring natural, historic and cultural places to understand the area beyond a real-estate showing.
Panhandle Pioneer Settlement
The Panhandle Pioneer Settlement at Blountstown is eighteen historic buildings, restored and open to the public, gathered onto one site so that a rural Florida community can be walked through rather than read about. The oldest is the Chason Cabin from the 1820s, followed by the Wells Cabin of 1846 and the Bailey Log Home from about 1860.
Apalachicola River
The Apalachicola runs about 160 miles from Lake Seminole at Chattahoochee down to Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf, and Blountstown sits on its bank. Its basin covers roughly 19,500 square miles. The lower thirty miles are swamp and wetland, with large tracts of floodplain forest, and where the river meets the bay it creates more than 230,000 acres of delta at varying salinity, tidal marsh and seagrass meadow, set aside as a research reserve.
Sam Atkins Park
Sam Atkins Park is the town's recreation ground at Blountstown, with a large parking area beside the baseball diamonds, restrooms, and accessible parking and restrooms. It opens daily from sunrise to sunset. Behind the playing fields the ground turns into something else: two viewing structures on a small pond and a boardwalk through swamp on the north side, with pine around the perimeter and woodland trails carrying on into the neighboring Panhandle Pioneer Settlement.
Chipola River
The Chipola River begins in Jackson County where Marshall Creek meets Cowarts Creek, and runs 92.5 miles south to join the Apalachicola. It is a spring river rather than a rain river, and that is what makes it different from most water in the panhandle.
Blountstown Greenway Bike Path
The Blountstown Greenway is 3.4 paved miles laid along an old railroad bed, running from the trailhead at State Road 71 south through the middle of Blountstown to Neal Landing on the Apalachicola River, where a wooden overlook gives out over the water. A 0.7-mile spur climbs away to Sam Atkins Park and the Panhandle Pioneer Settlement, which adds 1.4 miles there and back through the Sutton Creek floodplain.
M&B Railroad Memorial Park
The M&B Railroad Memorial Park sits on Main Street North in Blountstown and remembers the Marianna and Blountstown line that once ran through the town. A historic locomotive stands in the park, and the old depot near the town center has been turned into a public space with a railroad museum in it.
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