Cape Coral has 87,887 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 30,249 of them (34%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 15,977 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Cape Coral's absentee share, 34%, is lower than Lee County's 36%. Below: how Cape Coral sits inside Lee County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 34% of the city’s 87,887 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 Lee 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 Cape Coral address on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
34% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
18% of the city’s homes: the tax bill goes to an address outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
8% are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
72% of the 87,875 with a year built on the roll were built in 2011 or earlier.
of Lee County’s 95,866 absentee-owned single-family homes have a Cape Coral address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a Cape Coral address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 87,875 single-family homes in Cape Coral with a year built on the roll, 63,421 (72%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so Cape Coral's share is lower than Florida's; Lee County's is 74%. The other 12 of Cape Coral's 87,887 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 quarter of Lee County's 267,980 single-family homes have a Cape Coral address (33%), and so do 32% of its 95,866 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | Cape Coral | Lee County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 87,887 | 267,980 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 30,249 (34%) | 95,866 (36%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 15,977 (18%) | 44,771 (17%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 7,327 (8%) | 20,344 (8%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 63,421 (72%) | 197,147 (74%) | 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 (87,875 in Cape Coral, 267,940 in Lee County, 5,990,343 statewide). Lee County's out-of-state share, 17%, is the 4th highest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The whole county, with its ranks and neighbors: Lee County absentee owner lists.
What stands out
The four shares on this page, the one furthest from Lee County’s first, each against Florida and the other city pages.
8% of Cape Coral's 87,887 single-family homes (7,327) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure Cape Coral looks like Lee County as a whole, which is at 8%. Florida's figure is about the same, 9%. That puts Cape Coral in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 17 have a higher share and 11 a lower one.
18% of Cape Coral's 87,887 single-family homes (15,977) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Lee County's share is lower, 17%. Across Florida the figure is far lower: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only two have a higher share.
34% of Cape Coral's 87,887 single-family homes (30,249) have no homestead exemption. Lee County's share is higher, 36%. Florida's figure is lower, at 29%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only five have a higher share.
72% of Cape Coral's 87,875 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (63,421) were built in 2011 or earlier. Lee County's share is higher, 74%. Florida's figure is higher, at 81%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only eight have a lower share.
Lee County
Cape Coral is the biggest of the three Lee County cities with their own page, by single-family homes. Among the three Lee County cities with their own page, Cape Coral has the highest out-of-state share, and the lowest share built in 2011 or earlier. Its absentee share and company-owned share sit in between. Only six of the 29 Florida cities with their own page have more single-family homes than Cape Coral.
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No other city name in Lee County's roll contains “Cape Coral”, so the box gives this page's count.
Cost
All 30,249 absentee-owned homes in Cape Coral would be $151 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 Cape Coral in the message and we reply with a count and a price, usually within one business day.
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Reach the owner
15,977 of Cape Coral’s single-family homes (18%, against 8% statewide) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida; pulling all of them is $80. Calling the house reaches whoever is there, not the owner. Tracer reads the owner’s mailing address first and checks the caller name (CNAM) on the best number (Phone 1) against the owner. New to this? Start with the absentee owner guide.
30,249 of the 87,887 single-family homes with a Cape Coral address on Florida's 2025 tax roll (34%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. Across Lee County it's 36%; statewide, 29%.
15,977 single-family homes with a Cape Coral address (18%) 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 Cape Coral 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 Lee in the County box, type “Cape Coral” 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 quarter of Lee County's 267,980 single-family homes have a Cape Coral address (33%), and so do 32% of its 95,866 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 8% of Cape Coral's 87,887 single-family homes (7,327) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure Cape Coral looks like Lee County as a whole, which is at 8%. Florida's figure is about the same, 9%. That puts Cape Coral in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 17 have a higher share and 11 a lower one.
Lee County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 18% of Cape Coral's 87,887 single-family homes (15,977) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Lee County's share is lower, 17%. Across Florida the figure is far lower: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only two have a higher share.
Cape Coral is in Lee County, so search the address or the owner's name on the Lee County Property Appraiser's property search (www.leepa.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.
Lee County Property Appraiser property search
Create a free account, open Request Data, pick Lee and type “Cape Coral” in the City box: the count and the price show before you pull. Rather not dial them yourself? Our callers can.