West Palm Beach has 53,176 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 15,503 of them (29%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 3,089 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. West Palm Beach's out-of-state share, 6%, is lower than Palm Beach County's 7%. Below: how West Palm Beach sits inside Palm Beach County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 29% of the city’s 53,176 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 Palm Beach 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 West Palm Beach address on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
29% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
6% of the city’s homes: the tax bill goes to an address outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
9% are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
95% of the 53,108 with a year built on the roll were built in 2011 or earlier.
of Palm Beach County’s 102,102 absentee-owned single-family homes have a West Palm Beach address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a West Palm Beach address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 53,108 single-family homes in West Palm Beach with a year built on the roll, 50,533 (95%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so West Palm Beach's share is higher than Florida's; Palm Beach County's is 90%. The other 68 of West Palm Beach's 53,176 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 tenth of Palm Beach County's 383,219 single-family homes have a West Palm Beach address (14%), and so do 15% of its 102,102 absentee-owned ones: a bigger slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | West Palm Beach | Palm Beach County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 53,176 | 383,219 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 15,503 (29%) | 102,102 (27%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 3,089 (6%) | 28,359 (7%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 4,939 (9%) | 31,815 (8%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 50,533 (95%) | 345,495 (90%) | 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 (53,108 in West Palm Beach, 382,971 in Palm Beach County, 5,990,343 statewide). Palm Beach County's single-family roll is the 4th largest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The whole county, with its ranks and neighbors: Palm Beach County absentee owner lists.
What stands out
The four shares on this page, the one furthest from Palm Beach County’s first, each against Florida and the other city pages.
6% of West Palm Beach's 53,176 single-family homes (3,089) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Palm Beach County's share is higher, 7%. Florida's figure is higher, at 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only five have a lower share.
9% of West Palm Beach's 53,176 single-family homes (4,939) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure West Palm Beach looks like Palm Beach County as a whole, which is at 8%. Florida's figure is about the same, 9%. That puts West Palm Beach in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 13 have a higher share and 15 a lower one.
29% of West Palm Beach's 53,176 single-family homes (15,503) have no homestead exemption. Palm Beach County's share is lower, 27%. Florida's figure is about the same, 29%. That puts West Palm Beach in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 12 have a higher share and 16 a lower one.
95% of West Palm Beach's 53,108 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (50,533) were built in 2011 or earlier. Palm Beach County's share is lower, 90%. Florida's figure is lower, at 81%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only one has a higher share.
Palm Beach County
By single-family homes, West Palm Beach comes second of the four Palm Beach County cities with their own page. Among the four Palm Beach County cities with their own page, West Palm Beach has the highest absentee share, company-owned share and share built in 2011 or earlier. Its out-of-state share sits in between. By single-family homes, West Palm Beach sits mid-list among the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 15 have more and 13 fewer.
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 Palm Beach County's roll contains “West Palm Beach”, so the box gives this page's count.
Cost
All 15,503 absentee-owned homes in West Palm Beach would be $78 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 West Palm Beach in the message and we reply with a count and a price, usually within one business day.
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Reach the owner
4,939 of West Palm Beach’s single-family homes (9%, 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 $25. 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.
15,503 of the 53,176 single-family homes with a West Palm Beach address on Florida's 2025 tax roll (29%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. Across Palm Beach County it's 27%; statewide, 29%.
3,089 single-family homes with a West Palm Beach address (6%) 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 West Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach in the County box, type “West Palm Beach” 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 tenth of Palm Beach County's 383,219 single-family homes have a West Palm Beach address (14%), and so do 15% of its 102,102 absentee-owned ones: a bigger slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 6% of West Palm Beach's 53,176 single-family homes (3,089) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Palm Beach County's share is higher, 7%. Florida's figure is higher, at 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only five have a lower share.
Palm Beach County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 6% of West Palm Beach's 53,176 single-family homes (3,089) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Palm Beach County's share is higher, 7%. Florida's figure is higher, at 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only five have a lower share.
West Palm Beach is in Palm Beach County, so search the address or the owner's name on the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's property search (pbcpao.gov). 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.
Palm Beach County Property Appraiser property search
Create a free account, open Request Data, pick Palm Beach and type “West Palm Beach” in the City box: the count and the price show before you pull. Rather not dial them yourself? Our callers can.