Size of the roll
35,317single-family homes
Highlands County's roll holds 35,317 single-family homes, 1% of Florida's: the 8th smallest of 44 counties.
#37 of 441% of Florida
Highlands County, FL absentee owner list, counted.
Highlands County has 35,317 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 12,452 of them (35%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 2,568 are single-family homes whose owner gets the tax bill outside Florida. Highlands County's single-family roll is the 8th smallest 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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Highlands County · absentee-owned single-family2025 tax roll
12,452
homes with no homestead exemption, #37 of Florida’s 67 counties
- Single-family homes
- 35,317
- Owners of 3+ homes
- 340
Counted October 2026. Request Data shows the same count, free, before you pull.
The numbers
What’s on the Highlands 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
35,317
single-family homes on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
Single-familyAbsentee
12,452
35% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
Single-familyOut-of-state
2,568
homes whose owner gets the tax bill outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
Single-familyCompanies
3,214
homes owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
Single-familyOwns 3+
340
owners who hold three or more single-family homes in the county.
Rank in Florida
#37
of 67 counties for absentee-owned homes. Here 35% 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.
32,085 of the 35,316 single-family homes in Highlands County with a year built on the roll (91%) were built in 2011 or earlier, a higher share than Florida's 81%. 23,924 of those 35,316 homes (68%, more than half) were built in 1995 or earlier. See Florida homes by year built, by county.
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12,452
absentee-owned single-family homes in Highlands County
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What stands out
Where Highlands County ranks in Florida.
Out-of-state owners
7%of single-family homes
7% of Highlands County's single-family homes (2,568) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida, below the statewide 8%: the 19th lowest share of 44 counties.
#26 of 44Statewide 8%
| Measure | Highlands County | Statewide | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absentee-owned homes | 12,452 (35%) | 29% | #37 of 67 |
| Share with the tax bill going outside Florida | 7% | 8% | #26 of 44 |
| Share owned by an LLC, corporation or trust | 9% | 9% | #20 of 44 |
| Single-family homes on the roll | 35,317 | 1% of Florida's | #37 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 Highlands County lists investors pull first.
Company-owned homes
3,214homes
Owned by an LLC, corporation or trust; Tracer traces it to a person where it can. How that works. 9% of the county's single-family homes: the 20th highest share of 44 counties.
Single-familyCompanies
Owners of 3+ homes
340owners
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+
Out-of-state owners
2,568homes
The tax bill goes to an address outside Florida; includes second homes and rentals. 7% of the county's single-family homes: the 19th lowest share of 44 counties.
Single-familyOut-of-state
Cost
What a Highlands County list costs.
Pull it yourself, see the price first
Pulling records costs 0.5¢ each. All 3,214 company-owned single-family homes would be $16 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 3,214 company-owned homes
- $16
- Skip trace them from a pack
- $99 per 10,000
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Reach the owner
Find the person behind the company.
3,214 single-family homes here (9%) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust, so the name on the roll isn’t a person you can call. Tracer works a company owner toward a person: a person named in the company’s name, otherwise its mailing address (marked lower confidence), and checks the caller name (CNAM) on the best number (Phone 1) against that person. To find the managers yourself, look the company up on Sunbiz: the LLC owner lookup guide shows how. New to tracing? Start with how to skip trace.
More Florida counties
Counties of a similar size.
Statewide: Highlands County in the Florida statistics table, out-of-state owners by county and company-owned homes by county.
Neighboring counties
Highlands County and the counties next to it.
Next to its six neighboring counties, Highlands County sits in the middle on every count below; Polk County has the most single-family homes.
| County | Single-family | Absentee-owned | Out-of-state | Company-owned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands County | 35,317 | 12,452 (35%) | 2,568 (7%) | 3,214 (9%) |
| Polk County | 227,814 | 80,653 (35%) | 23,468 (10%) | 22,309 (10%) |
| Charlotte County | 89,323 | 30,755 (34%) | 14,460 (16%) | 11,347 (13%) |
| Okeechobee County | 7,652 | 2,249 (29%) | 267 (3%) | 426 (6%) |
| DeSoto County | 6,140 | 2,059 (34%) | 289 (5%) | 191 (3%) |
| Hardee County | 4,421 | 1,480 (33%) | 85 (2%) | 276 (6%) |
| Glades County | 1,989 | 810 (41%) | 163 (8%) | 194 (10%) |
Neighbors are the Florida counties that share a border with Highlands County in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2026 county adjacency file. With its six neighbors, the company-owned list grows from 3,214 to 37,957 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 Highlands County Property Appraiser’s roll.
One property at a time
Every count on this page starts on the Highlands 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 runs that search on its own website, www.hcpao.org.
www.hcpao.org, 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 (Highlands 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
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How many absentee owners are in Highlands County?
12,452 of the 35,317 single-family homes in Highlands County (35%) have no homestead exemption on Florida's 2025 tax roll, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. That ranks #37 of Florida's 67 counties.
How many Highlands County homes have out-of-state owners?
2,568 single-family homes in Highlands 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 Highlands County absentee owner list?
Create a free Tracer account, open Request Data, pick Highlands, 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 Highlands County homes are owned by LLCs?
3,214 single-family homes in Highlands 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 big is Highlands County's single-family roll next to other Florida counties?
35,317 single-family homes, 1% of Florida's 5,994,124: the 8th smallest roll of the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes.
How do I find out who owns a property in Highlands County?
Search the address or the owner's name on the Highlands County Property Appraiser's property search (www.hcpao.org). 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.
Highlands County Property Appraiser property search
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