Florida, county by county

Florida absentee owners, county by county.

Florida’s tax roll shows who lives in their home: owners claim a homestead exemption on their main residence. A house without one is usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house. Across the state that’s 1,758,827 single-family homes. 505,837 single-family homes belong to owners who live out of state.

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Statewide

Florida’s 2025 roll, counted.

Counted in September 2026 from Tracer’s Florida property data, which is the Florida Department of Revenue’s statewide 2025 parcel roll, with government owners left out. Pick any county in Request Data and you’ll get the same count (one pull tops out at 200,000 records, so a bigger total shows as 200,000 there).

Single-family

5,994,124

single-family homes on the roll.

Single-family · Absentee

1,758,827

29% have no homestead exemption.

Single-family · Out-of-state

505,837

owners get the tax bill in another state.

Every county

All 67 counties.

Single-family homes, how many have no homestead exemption, how many owners mail from out of state, and how many are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust.

County	Single-family	Absentee	Share	Out-of-state	Company-owned
Broward	390,228	87,163	22%	16,292	23,803
Hillsborough	386,995	102,490	26%	27,092	47,778
Miami-Dade	384,129	89,207	23%	7,282	23,616
Palm Beach	383,219	102,102	27%	28,359	31,815
Orange	344,873	113,773	33%	24,573	30,239
Duval	292,942	99,211	34%	26,178	35,241
Lee	267,980	95,866	36%	44,771	20,344
Pinellas	252,920	62,831	25%	16,360	20,131
Polk	227,814	80,653	35%	23,468	22,309
Brevard	211,335	53,356	25%	13,301	20,959
Pasco	198,484	56,385	28%	17,662	20,267
Volusia	191,538	51,013	27%	13,693	9,684
Sarasota	165,499	55,497	34%	23,656	17,726
Marion	136,890	39,251	29%	9,387	13,375
Osceola	135,702	55,651	41%	22,923	17,390
Seminole	134,013	34,284	26%	7,226	13,142
Lake	131,965	35,612	27%	9,749	13,425
Manatee	129,362	39,074	30%	13,582	7,559
St. Lucie	126,589	32,070	25%	8,900	6,837
Collier	111,107	38,821	35%	17,734	23,494
St. Johns	110,213	26,854	24%	8,070	11,340
Escambia	106,293	36,682	35%	8,507	8,068
Charlotte	89,323	30,755	34%	14,460	11,347
Leon	74,416	21,561	29%	2,247	5,828
Sumter	73,366	21,107	29%	10,391	2,938
Okaloosa	71,521	24,699	35%	7,719	7,953
Hernando	70,962	18,654	26%	5,599	3,541
Clay	68,788	17,352	25%	6,722	4,367
Santa Rosa	67,871	18,434	27%	5,087	4,159
Alachua	65,135	18,379	28%	2,108	3,138
Bay	64,920	26,782	41%	9,839	6,800
Citrus	60,989	16,334	27%	4,694	2,732
Indian River	59,329	16,120	27%	4,674	2,617
Flagler	52,459	13,655	26%	5,264	2,885
Martin	50,962	11,672	23%	3,433	5,314
Walton	39,501	22,226	56%	13,250	7,366
Highlands	35,317	12,452	35%	2,568	3,214
Nassau	32,271	7,272	23%	2,524	3,065
Monroe	29,881	17,116	57%	5,708	5,631
Putnam	17,458	5,849	34%	681	1,074
Columbia	13,847	4,001	29%	372	803
Gadsden	11,460	3,954	35%	367	355
Jackson	10,411	3,462	33%	544	512
Wakulla	10,030	2,715	27%	481	540
Hendry	8,532	2,985	35%	537	705
Levy	8,360	2,252	27%	378	345
Okeechobee	7,652	2,249	29%	267	426
Gulf	7,508	4,263	57%	2,454	1,072
Franklin	6,953	4,241	61%	2,143	804
Suwannee	6,435	1,922	30%	128	339
DeSoto	6,140	2,059	34%	289	191
Bradford	6,021	1,638	27%	160	443
Washington	5,410	1,828	34%	257	315
Taylor	5,227	2,097	40%	440	313
Baker	5,076	1,064	21%	88	175
Hardee	4,421	1,480	33%	85	276
Holmes	3,493	1,086	31%	172	103
Madison	3,274	1,216	37%	174	141
Gilchrist	3,062	716	23%	53	155
Jefferson	2,936	842	29%	91	197
Dixie	2,800	1,097	39%	157	141
Calhoun	2,610	785	30%	99	67
Hamilton	2,020	740	37%	116	90
Glades	1,989	810	41%	163	194
Union	1,463	283	19%	15	74
Liberty	1,387	448	32%	48	49
Lafayette	1,048	329	31%	26	68

“Absentee” means no homestead exemption, so snowbirds, second homes and recent buyers who haven’t filed yet are in it too. Stack filters (out-of-state, company owners, owns 3+) to get a list worth calling.

Questions

Florida absentee owners: FAQ

How many absentee owners are in Florida?

1,758,827 of Florida's 5,994,124 single-family homes (29%) have no homestead exemption on the 2025 tax roll, and 505,837 have an owner with a mailing address outside Florida. Government owners are left out.

Which Florida county has the most absentee-owned homes?

Orange County, with 113,773 single-family homes without a homestead exemption.

Where is the share of absentee-owned homes highest?

Among counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes, Monroe County: 57% of its 29,881 single-family homes have no homestead exemption.

How do I get an absentee owner list for one Florida county?

Create a free Tracer account, open Request Data, pick the county and turn on Absentee (add Out-of-state, or a property type, city or ZIP, to narrow it). You see the count and the price before you pull, at 0.5¢ a record, and the records go straight into skip tracing.

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