Fort Myers has 73,627 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 24,807 of them (34%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 10,197 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Fort Myers' company-owned share, 6%, is lower than Lee County's 8%. Below: how Fort Myers sits inside Lee County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 34% of the city’s 73,627 single-family homes
Counted October 2026. Postal city, not city limits. Request Data’s City box also matches Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers, so its free count runs higher.
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 Fort Myers 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.
14% of the city’s homes: the tax bill goes to an address outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
6% are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
76% of the 73,621 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 Fort Myers address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a Fort Myers address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 73,621 single-family homes in Fort Myers with a year built on the roll, 55,636 (76%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so Fort Myers' share is lower than Florida's; Lee County's is 74%. The other 6 of Fort Myers' 73,627 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 Fort Myers address (27%), and so do 26% of its 95,866 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | Fort Myers | Lee County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 73,627 | 267,980 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 24,807 (34%) | 95,866 (36%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 10,197 (14%) | 44,771 (17%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 4,541 (6%) | 20,344 (8%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 55,636 (76%) | 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 (73,621 in Fort Myers, 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.
6% of Fort Myers' 73,627 single-family homes (4,541) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Lee County's share is higher, 8%. Florida's figure is higher, at 9%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only six have a lower share.
14% of Fort Myers' 73,627 single-family homes (10,197) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Lee County's share is higher, 17%. Across Florida the figure is far lower: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only five have a higher share.
34% of Fort Myers' 73,627 single-family homes (24,807) 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 eight have a higher share.
76% of Fort Myers' 73,621 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (55,636) were built in 2011 or earlier. Lee County's share is lower, 74%. Florida's figure is higher, at 81%. That puts Fort Myers in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 16 have a higher share and 12 a lower one.
Lee County
By single-family homes, Fort Myers comes second of the three Lee County cities with their own page. Among the three Lee County cities with their own page, Fort Myers has the highest share built in 2011 or earlier, and the lowest absentee share and company-owned share. Its out-of-state share sits in between. Only nine of the 29 Florida cities with their own page have more single-family homes than Fort Myers.
Request Data
The same filters as the counts above. The City box also matches Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers, so the app's count is higher than this page's.
No card. Counting is free; pulling records is what costs.
Open Request Data. The county comes first; the city narrows it.
It also catches Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers; the note below says what that does to the count.
Set Property type to Single family, turn on Absentee owner and press Get count & price.
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The City box matches any city on the roll that contains what you type, so “Fort Myers” also matches Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers: the box's count will be higher than this page's, which leaves Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers out.
Cost
All 24,807 absentee-owned homes in Fort Myers would be $124 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 Fort Myers in the message and we reply with a count and a price, usually within one business day.
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Reach the owner
10,197 of Fort Myers’ single-family homes (14%, against 8% statewide) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida; pulling all of them is $51. 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.
24,807 of the 73,627 single-family homes with a Fort Myers 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%.
10,197 single-family homes with a Fort Myers address (14%) 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 Fort Myers address are in it, and a home inside the city limits whose address names another city isn't. It also leaves out Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers, which the roll lists as cities of their own.
In Request Data (a free account), pick Lee in the County box, type “Fort Myers” in the City box, set Property type to Single family and turn on Absentee owner. The box also matches Fort Myers Beach and North Fort Myers, so its count will be higher than this page's. 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 Fort Myers address (27%), and so do 26% of its 95,866 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 6% of Fort Myers' 73,627 single-family homes (4,541) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Lee County's share is higher, 8%. Florida's figure is higher, at 9%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only six have a lower share.
Lee County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 14% of Fort Myers' 73,627 single-family homes (10,197) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Lee County's share is higher, 17%. Across Florida the figure is far lower: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only five have a higher share.
Fort Myers 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 “Fort Myers” in the City box: the count and the price show before you pull. Rather not dial them yourself? Our callers can.