Lakeland has 68,652 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 19,292 of them (28%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 4,306 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Lakeland's out-of-state share, 6%, is well below Polk County's 10%. Below: how Lakeland sits inside Polk County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 28% of the city’s 68,652 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 Polk 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 Lakeland 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.
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).
84% of the 68,651 with a year built on the roll were built in 2011 or earlier.
of Polk County’s 80,653 absentee-owned single-family homes have a Lakeland address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a Lakeland address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 68,651 single-family homes in Lakeland with a year built on the roll, 57,909 (84%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so Lakeland's share is higher than Florida's; Polk County's is 70%. The other 1 of Lakeland's 68,652 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 Polk County's 227,814 single-family homes have a Lakeland address (30%), and so do 24% of its 80,653 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | Lakeland | Polk County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 68,652 | 227,814 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 19,292 (28%) | 80,653 (35%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 4,306 (6%) | 23,468 (10%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 6,332 (9%) | 22,309 (10%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 57,909 (84%) | 159,183 (70%) | 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 (68,651 in Lakeland, 227,813 in Polk County, 5,990,343 statewide). Polk County's single-family roll is the 9th largest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The whole county, with its ranks and neighbors: Polk County absentee owner lists.
What stands out
The four shares on this page, the one furthest from Polk County’s first, each against Florida and the other city pages.
6% of Lakeland's 68,652 single-family homes (4,306) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That is well below Polk County's 10%: homes with an out-of-state tax bill are more common elsewhere in the county. Florida's figure is higher, at 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only six have a lower share.
28% of Lakeland's 68,652 single-family homes (19,292) have no homestead exemption. That is well below Polk County's 35%: absentee-owned homes are more common elsewhere in the county. Florida's figure is higher, at 29%. That puts Lakeland in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 16 have a higher share and 12 a lower one.
84% of Lakeland's 68,651 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (57,909) were built in 2011 or earlier. Polk County's share is lower, 70%. Florida's figure is lower, at 81%. That puts Lakeland in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 11 have a higher share and 17 a lower one.
9% of Lakeland's 68,652 single-family homes (6,332) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure Lakeland looks like Polk County as a whole, which is at 10%. Florida's figure is about the same, 9%. That puts Lakeland in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 14 have a higher share and 14 a lower one.
Polk County
Lakeland is the bigger of the two Polk County cities with their own page, by single-family homes. Among the two Polk County cities with their own page, Lakeland has the highest share built in 2011 or earlier, and the lowest absentee share, out-of-state share and company-owned share. By single-family homes, Lakeland sits mid-list among the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 11 have more and 17 fewer.
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No other city name in Polk County's roll contains “Lakeland”, so the box gives this page's count.
Cost
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Reach the owner
6,332 of Lakeland’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 $32. 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.
19,292 of the 68,652 single-family homes with a Lakeland address on Florida's 2025 tax roll (28%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. Across Polk County it's 35%; statewide, 29%.
4,306 single-family homes with a Lakeland 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 Lakeland 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 Polk in the County box, type “Lakeland” 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 Polk County's 227,814 single-family homes have a Lakeland address (30%), and so do 24% of its 80,653 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 6% of Lakeland's 68,652 single-family homes (4,306) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That is well below Polk County's 10%: homes with an out-of-state tax bill are more common elsewhere in the county. Florida's figure is higher, at 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only six have a lower share.
Polk County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 6% of Lakeland's 68,652 single-family homes (4,306) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That is well below Polk County's 10%: homes with an out-of-state tax bill are more common elsewhere in the county. Florida's figure is higher, at 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only six have a lower share.
Lakeland is in Polk County, so search the address or the owner's name on the Polk County Property Appraiser's property search (www.polkflpa.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.
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