Gainesville has 46,558 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 13,687 of them (29%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 1,603 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Gainesville's share built in 2011 or earlier, 91%, is higher than Alachua County's 86%. Below: how Gainesville sits inside Alachua County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 29% of the city’s 46,558 single-family homes
Counted October 2026. Postal city, not city limits. Request Data shows the same count, free, before you pull.
The numbers
Counted in October 2026 from Tracer’s Florida property data (the Florida Department of Revenue’s statewide 2025 parcel roll), with Alachua picked as the county. Each count names the Request Data filters behind it. “Absentee” means no homestead exemption, so second homes and recent buyers who haven’t filed are in it too.
single-family homes with a Gainesville address on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
29% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
3% of the city’s homes: the tax bill goes to an address outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
5% are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
91% of the 46,425 with a year built on the roll were built in 2011 or earlier.
of Alachua County’s 18,379 absentee-owned single-family homes have a Gainesville address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a Gainesville address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 46,425 single-family homes in Gainesville with a year built on the roll, 42,378 (91%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so Gainesville's share is higher than Florida's; Alachua County's is 86%. The other 133 of Gainesville's 46,558 single-family homes have no year built on the roll, so they are in neither figure. Florida homes by year built, by county.
Against the county
More than half of Alachua County's 65,135 single-family homes have a Gainesville address (71%), and so do 74% of its 18,379 absentee-owned ones: a bigger slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | Gainesville | Alachua County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 46,558 | 65,135 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 13,687 (29%) | 18,379 (28%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 1,603 (3%) | 2,108 (3%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 2,332 (5%) | 3,138 (5%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 42,378 (91%) | 55,726 (86%) | 4,854,759 (81%) |
Shares are of each place’s single-family homes; the built-2011 row is of the homes with a year built on the roll (46,425 in Gainesville, 64,620 in Alachua County, 5,990,343 statewide). Alachua County's out-of-state share, 3%, is the 5th lowest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The whole county, with its ranks and neighbors: Alachua County absentee owner lists.
What stands out
The four shares on this page, the one furthest from Alachua County’s first, each against Florida and the other city pages.
3% of Gainesville's 46,558 single-family homes (1,603) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. On this measure Gainesville looks like Alachua County as a whole, which is at 3%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. No other Florida city with its own page has a lower share.
91% of Gainesville's 46,425 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (42,378) were built in 2011 or earlier. Alachua County's share is lower, 86%. Florida's figure is lower, at 81%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only three have a higher share.
29% of Gainesville's 46,558 single-family homes (13,687) have no homestead exemption. Alachua County's share is lower, 28%. Florida's figure is about the same, 29%. That puts Gainesville in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 11 have a higher share and 17 a lower one.
5% of Gainesville's 46,558 single-family homes (2,332) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure Gainesville looks like Alachua County as a whole, which is at 5%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 9%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only one has a lower share.
Alachua County
Gainesville is the only city in Alachua County with its own page; the county page covers the whole roll. Only nine of the 29 Florida cities with their own page have fewer single-family homes than Gainesville.
Request Data
The same filters as the counts above, so the number you see in the app matches this page.
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Open Request Data. The county comes first; the city narrows it.
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Set Property type to Single family, turn on Absentee owner and press Get count & price.
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No other city name in Alachua County's roll contains “Gainesville”, so the box gives this page's count.
Cost
All 13,687 absentee-owned homes in Gainesville would be $68 to pull. You see the count and the price before you pay, and you can narrow by ZIP, value or year built first. Rather not pull it yourself? Get this list quoted: name Gainesville in the message and we reply with a count and a price, usually within one business day.
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Reach the owner
2,332 of Gainesville’s single-family homes (5%, against 9% statewide) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust, so the name on the roll isn’t a person you can call. Pulling all of them is $12. Tracer works a company owner toward a person: a person named in the company’s name, otherwise its mailing address (marked lower confidence). To find the managers yourself, look the company up on Sunbiz: the LLC owner lookup guide shows how.
13,687 of the 46,558 single-family homes with a Gainesville address on Florida's 2025 tax roll (29%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. Across Alachua County it's 28%; statewide, 29%.
1,603 single-family homes with a Gainesville address (3%) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That's what the Out-of-state filter counts: second homes as well as rentals.
No. It counts the city on each property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so unincorporated areas with a Gainesville address are in it, and a home inside the city limits whose address names another city isn't.
In Request Data (a free account), pick Alachua in the County box, type “Gainesville” in the City box, set Property type to Single family and turn on Absentee owner. The count and the price show before you pull, at 0.5¢ a record.
More than half of Alachua County's 65,135 single-family homes have a Gainesville address (71%), and so do 74% of its 18,379 absentee-owned ones: a bigger slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 3% of Gainesville's 46,558 single-family homes (1,603) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. On this measure Gainesville looks like Alachua County as a whole, which is at 3%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. No other Florida city with its own page has a lower share.
Alachua County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 3% of Gainesville's 46,558 single-family homes (1,603) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. On this measure Gainesville looks like Alachua County as a whole, which is at 3%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. No other Florida city with its own page has a lower share.
Gainesville is in Alachua County, so search the address or the owner's name on the Alachua County Property Appraiser's property search (qpublic.schneidercorp.com). The parcel record shows the owner of record and where the tax bill goes, one property at a time; it isn't a title search. For every owner that matches a filter, use Request Data instead.
Alachua County Property Appraiser property search
Create a free account, open Request Data, pick Alachua and type “Gainesville” in the City box: the count and the price show before you pull. Rather not dial them yourself? Our callers can.