Tampa has 182,602 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 51,778 of them (28%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 8,854 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Tampa's out-of-state share, 5%, is lower than Hillsborough County's 7%. Below: how Tampa sits inside Hillsborough County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 28% of the city’s 182,602 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 Hillsborough 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 Tampa address on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
28% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
5% of the city’s homes: the tax bill goes to an address outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
13% are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
90% of the 182,601 with a year built on the roll were built in 2011 or earlier.
of Hillsborough County’s 102,490 absentee-owned single-family homes have a Tampa address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a Tampa address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 182,601 single-family homes in Tampa with a year built on the roll, 164,049 (90%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so Tampa's share is higher than Florida's; Hillsborough County's is 79%. The other 1 of Tampa's 182,602 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 a third of Hillsborough County's 386,995 single-family homes have a Tampa address (47%), and so do 51% of its 102,490 absentee-owned ones: a bigger slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | Tampa | Hillsborough County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 182,602 | 386,995 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 51,778 (28%) | 102,490 (26%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 8,854 (5%) | 27,092 (7%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 23,522 (13%) | 47,778 (12%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 164,049 (90%) | 307,103 (79%) | 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 (182,601 in Tampa, 386,994 in Hillsborough County, 5,990,343 statewide). Hillsborough County's single-family roll is the 2nd largest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The whole county, with its ranks and neighbors: Hillsborough County absentee owner lists.
What stands out
The four shares on this page, the one furthest from Hillsborough County’s first, each against Florida and the other city pages.
5% of Tampa's 182,602 single-family homes (8,854) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Hillsborough County's share is higher, 7%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only one has a lower share.
90% of Tampa's 182,601 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (164,049) were built in 2011 or earlier. Hillsborough County's share is lower, 79%. Florida's figure is lower, at 81%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only eight have a higher share.
28% of Tampa's 182,602 single-family homes (51,778) have no homestead exemption. Hillsborough County's share is lower, 26%. Florida's figure is about the same, 29%. That puts Tampa in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 15 have a higher share and 13 a lower one.
13% of Tampa's 182,602 single-family homes (23,522) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure Tampa looks like Hillsborough County as a whole, which is at 12%. Across Florida the figure is far lower: 9%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only two have a higher share.
Hillsborough County
Tampa is the bigger of the two Hillsborough County cities with their own page, by single-family homes. Among the two Hillsborough County cities with their own page, Tampa has the highest absentee share, company-owned share and share built in 2011 or earlier, and the lowest out-of-state share. Only one of the 29 Florida cities with their own page has more single-family homes than Tampa.
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 Hillsborough County's roll contains “Tampa”, so the box gives this page's count.
Cost
All 51,778 absentee-owned homes in Tampa would be $259 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 Tampa in the message and we reply with a count and a price, usually within one business day.
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Reach the owner
23,522 of Tampa’s single-family homes (13%, 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 $118. 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.
51,778 of the 182,602 single-family homes with a Tampa address on Florida's 2025 tax roll (28%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. Across Hillsborough County it's 26%; statewide, 29%.
8,854 single-family homes with a Tampa address (5%) 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 Tampa 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 Hillsborough in the County box, type “Tampa” 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 a third of Hillsborough County's 386,995 single-family homes have a Tampa address (47%), and so do 51% of its 102,490 absentee-owned ones: a bigger slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 5% of Tampa's 182,602 single-family homes (8,854) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Hillsborough County's share is higher, 7%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only one has a lower share.
Hillsborough County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 5% of Tampa's 182,602 single-family homes (8,854) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Hillsborough County's share is higher, 7%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only one has a lower share.
Tampa is in Hillsborough County, so search the address or the owner's name on the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser's property search (gis.hcpafl.org). 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.
Hillsborough County Property Appraiser property search
Create a free account, open Request Data, pick Hillsborough and type “Tampa” in the City box: the count and the price show before you pull. Rather not dial them yourself? Our callers can.