Out-of-state owners
15%of single-family homes
15% of Bay County's single-family homes (9,839) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida, 1.8 times the statewide 8%: the 7th highest share of 44 counties.
#7 of 44Statewide 8%
Bay County, FL absentee owner list, counted.
Bay County has 64,920 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 26,782 of them (41%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 9,839 are single-family homes whose owner gets the tax bill outside Florida. Bay County's out-of-state share, 15%, is the 7th highest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. Here’s how to turn them into a call list.
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Bay County · absentee-owned single-family2025 tax roll
26,782
homes with no homestead exemption, #24 of Florida’s 67 counties
- Single-family homes
- 64,920
- Owners of 3+ homes
- 614
Counted October 2026. Request Data shows the same count, free, before you pull.
The numbers
What’s on the Bay County roll.
Counted in October 2026 from Tracer’s Florida property data, which is the Florida Department of Revenue’s statewide 2025 parcel roll. Each count names the Request Data filters behind it, so you can check the number yourself before you buy anything. A count in the app tops out at 200,000, so a bigger total shows as 200,000; one pull returns up to 100,000 records, highest value first.
Single-family
64,920
single-family homes on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
Single-familyAbsentee
26,782
41% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
Single-familyOut-of-state
9,839
homes whose owner gets the tax bill outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
Single-familyCompanies
6,800
homes owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
Single-familyOwns 3+
614
owners who hold three or more single-family homes in the county.
Rank in Florida
#24
of 67 counties for absentee-owned homes. Here 41% have no homestead exemption; statewide it’s 29%.
“Absentee” means no homestead exemption. Snowbirds, second homes and owners who bought recently and haven’t filed yet look the same on paper, so stack a second filter before you call.
48,882 of the 64,904 single-family homes in Bay County with a year built on the roll (75%) were built in 2011 or earlier, a lower share than Florida's 81%. 34,659 of those 64,904 homes (53%, more than half) were built in 1995 or earlier. See Florida homes by year built, by county.
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26,782
absentee-owned single-family homes in Bay County
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- $133.91
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- $226.47
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What stands out
Where Bay County ranks in Florida.
Company-owned homes
10%of single-family homes
10% of Bay County's single-family homes (6,800) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust, above the statewide 9%: the 10th highest share of 44 counties.
#10 of 44Statewide 9%
| Measure | Bay County | Statewide | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absentee-owned homes | 26,782 (41%) | 29% | #24 of 67 |
| Share with the tax bill going outside Florida | 15% | 8% | #7 of 44 |
| Share owned by an LLC, corporation or trust | 10% | 9% | #10 of 44 |
| Single-family homes on the roll | 64,920 | 1% of Florida's | #31 of 44 |
Ranks compare the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes, so a small county's share can't top the list. The absentee rank counts homes, so it compares all 67.
Lists to build
Three Bay County lists investors pull first.
Out-of-state owners
9,839homes
The tax bill goes to an address outside Florida; includes second homes and rentals. 15% of the county's single-family homes: the 7th highest share of 44 counties.
Single-familyOut-of-state
Owners of 3+ homes
614owners
Owner names on three or more single-family homes in the county; portfolio landlords, builders and trusts all show up here.
Single-familyInvestor owns 3+
Company-owned homes
6,800homes
Owned by an LLC, corporation or trust; Tracer traces it to a person where it can. How that works. 10% of the county's single-family homes: the 10th highest share of 44 counties.
Single-familyCompanies
Cost
What a Bay County list costs.
Pull it yourself, see the price first
Pulling records costs 0.5¢ each. All 9,839 out-of-state single-family owners would be $49 to pull; skip tracing them then uses records from a pack ($99 for 10,000). You see the count and the price before you pay, and you can narrow by city, ZIP, value or year built first.
- Pull the records
- 0.5¢ a record
- All 9,839 out-of-state owners
- $49
- Skip trace them from a pack
- $99 per 10,000
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Reach the owner
Trace the mailing address, not the house.
9,839 single-family homes here have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. An absentee owner’s property address is where the tenant lives. Tracer reads the owner’s mailing address first and checks the caller name (CNAM) on the best number (Phone 1) against the owner, so you call the person who can sell. New to this? Start with how to skip trace or the absentee owner guide.
More Florida counties
Counties of a similar size.
Statewide: Bay County in the Florida statistics table, out-of-state owners by county and company-owned homes by county.
Neighboring counties
Bay County and the counties next to it.
Next to its five neighboring counties, Bay County has the most single-family homes.
| County | Single-family | Absentee-owned | Out-of-state | Company-owned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay County | 64,920 | 26,782 (41%) | 9,839 (15%) | 6,800 (10%) |
| Walton County | 39,501 | 22,226 (56%) | 13,250 (34%) | 7,366 (19%) |
| Jackson County | 10,411 | 3,462 (33%) | 544 (5%) | 512 (5%) |
| Gulf County | 7,508 | 4,263 (57%) | 2,454 (33%) | 1,072 (14%) |
| Washington County | 5,410 | 1,828 (34%) | 257 (5%) | 315 (6%) |
| Calhoun County | 2,610 | 785 (30%) | 99 (4%) | 67 (3%) |
Neighbors are the Florida counties that share a border with Bay County in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2026 county adjacency file. With its five neighbors, the out-of-state list grows from 9,839 to 26,443 single-family homes. Counts are single-family homes on the 2025 roll, with each county’s share in brackets.
Where the public record lives
The Bay County Property Appraiser’s roll.
One property at a time
Every count on this page starts on the Bay County Property Appraiser’s roll. Look up an address or an owner on the office’s own search and the parcel record shows the owner of record, the mailing address the tax bill goes to, the value and the exemptions. It’s free and it’s the county’s own record, one parcel at a time; it isn’t a title search. The office's public search runs on qPublic (qpublic.schneidercorp.com).
qpublic.schneidercorp.com, from the Florida Department of Revenue’s list of county property appraisers. Checked September 29, 2026.
Every owner that matches, as a list
The Florida Department of Revenue gathers all 67 county rolls into one statewide parcel file, and Tracer’s counts come from its 2025 version. Request Data filters that file (Bay County, single-family, absentee, out-of-state or company-owned) and turns the matches into a list you can skip trace, instead of one lookup per address.
Real numbers
One investor’s week on Tracer.
A real estate investor customer in September 2026, taken from the weekly report Tracer emailed them. We don’t publish customer names.
17,859
records traced in one week
16,759
came back with a phone number
94%
came back with a phone number that week
Your list will differ, so test it. Fresh lists of owner-occupied homes do best; old lists full of LLCs do worse. Trace 100 records free, no card.
How many absentee owners are in Bay County?
26,782 of the 64,920 single-family homes in Bay County (41%) have no homestead exemption on Florida's 2025 tax roll, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. That ranks #24 of Florida's 67 counties.
How many Bay County homes have out-of-state owners?
9,839 single-family homes in Bay County have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That's what the Out-of-state filter counts: it includes second homes as well as rentals.
How do I get a Bay County absentee owner list?
Create a free Tracer account, open Request Data, pick Bay, choose single-family and turn on Absentee. You see the count and the price before you pull anything (0.5¢ a record), and pulled records go straight into skip tracing.
How many Bay County homes are owned by LLCs?
6,800 single-family homes in Bay County are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. 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, Florida's business registry.
How LLC owner lookup worksHow does Bay County compare with the rest of Florida on out-of-state owners?
15% of its single-family homes (9,839) have an owner whose tax bill goes to an address outside Florida, against 8% statewide: the 7th highest share of the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The count includes second homes as well as rentals.
How do I find out who owns a property in Bay County?
Search the address or the owner's name on the Bay County Property Appraiser's property search (qpublic.schneidercorp.com). The parcel record shows the owner of record on the tax roll and the mailing address the tax bill goes to; it's one property at a time, and it isn't a title search. To get every owner that matches a filter as a list, count it in Request Data, pull it at 0.5¢ a record and skip trace it for phone numbers.
Bay County Property Appraiser property search
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