Santa Rosa County, FL absentee owner list, counted.

Santa Rosa County has 67,871 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 18,434 of them (27%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 5,087 are single-family homes whose owner gets the tax bill outside Florida. Santa Rosa County's company-owned share, 6%, is the 15th lowest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. Here’s how to turn them into a call list.

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Santa Rosa County · absentee-owned single-family2025 tax roll
18,434

homes with no homestead exemption, #30 of Florida’s 67 counties

  • Absentee-owned27%
  • Out-of-state owners7%
  • Company-owned6%
Single-family homes
67,871
Owners of 3+ homes
325

Counted October 2026. Request Data shows the same count, free, before you pull.

The numbers

What’s on the Santa Rosa County roll.

Counted in October 2026 from Tracer’s Florida property data, which is the Florida Department of Revenue’s statewide 2025 parcel roll. Each count names the Request Data filters behind it, so you can check the number yourself before you buy anything. A count in the app tops out at 200,000, so a bigger total shows as 200,000; one pull returns up to 100,000 records, highest value first.

Single-family
67,871

single-family homes on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.

Single-familyAbsentee
18,434

27% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.

Single-familyOut-of-state
5,087

homes whose owner gets the tax bill outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).

Single-familyCompanies
4,159

homes owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).

Single-familyOwns 3+
325

owners who hold three or more single-family homes in the county.

Rank in Florida
#30

of 67 counties for absentee-owned homes. Here 27% have no homestead exemption; statewide it’s 29%.

“Absentee” means no homestead exemption. Snowbirds, second homes and owners who bought recently and haven’t filed yet look the same on paper, so stack a second filter before you call.

48,403 of the 67,044 single-family homes in Santa Rosa County with a year built on the roll (72%) were built in 2011 or earlier, a lower share than Florida's 81%. 26,031 of those 67,044 homes (39%, fewer than half) were built in 1995 or earlier. See Florida homes by year built, by county.

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18,434

absentee-owned single-family homes in Santa Rosa County

2025 roll, counted October 2026
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What stands out

Where Santa Rosa County ranks in Florida.

Company-owned homes

6%of single-family homes

6% of Santa Rosa County's single-family homes (4,159) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust, below the statewide 9%: the 15th lowest share of 44 counties.

#30 of 44Statewide 9%

Size of the roll

67,871single-family homes

Santa Rosa County's roll holds 67,871 single-family homes, 1% of Florida's: the 16th smallest of 44 counties.

#29 of 441% of Florida
Where Santa Rosa County ranks among Florida counties
MeasureSanta Rosa CountyStatewideRank
Absentee-owned homes18,434 (27%)29%#30 of 67
Share with the tax bill going outside Florida7%8%#22 of 44
Share owned by an LLC, corporation or trust6%9%#30 of 44
Single-family homes on the roll67,8711% of Florida's#29 of 44

Ranks compare the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes, so a small county's share can't top the list. The absentee rank counts homes, so it compares all 67.

Lists to build

Three Santa Rosa County lists investors pull first.

Out-of-state owners

5,087homes

The tax bill goes to an address outside Florida; includes second homes and rentals. 7% of the county's single-family homes: the 22nd highest share of 44 counties.

Single-familyOut-of-state

Owners of 3+ homes

325owners

Owner names on three or more single-family homes in the county; portfolio landlords, builders and trusts all show up here.

Single-familyInvestor owns 3+

Company-owned homes

4,159homes

Owned by an LLC, corporation or trust; Tracer traces it to a person where it can. How that works. 6% of the county's single-family homes: the 15th lowest share of 44 counties.

Single-familyCompanies

Cost

What a Santa Rosa County list costs.

Pull it yourself, see the price first

Pulling records costs 0.5¢ each. All 5,087 out-of-state single-family owners would be $25 to pull; skip tracing them then uses records from a pack ($99 for 10,000). You see the count and the price before you pay, and you can narrow by city, ZIP, value or year built first.

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All 5,087 out-of-state owners
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Reach the owner

Trace the mailing address, not the house.

5,087 single-family homes here have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. An absentee owner’s property address is where the tenant lives. Tracer reads the owner’s mailing address first and checks the caller name (CNAM) on the best number (Phone 1) against the owner, so you call the person who can sell. New to this? Start with how to skip trace or the absentee owner guide.

Neighboring counties

Santa Rosa County and the counties next to it.

Next to its two neighboring counties, Santa Rosa County has the fewest single-family homes, the lowest absentee share, the lowest out-of-state share and the lowest company-owned share.

Single-family homes in Santa Rosa County and the Florida counties that share a border with it, 2025 roll
CountySingle-familyAbsentee-ownedOut-of-stateCompany-owned
Santa Rosa County67,87118,434 (27%)5,087 (7%)4,159 (6%)
Escambia County106,29336,682 (35%)8,507 (8%)8,068 (8%)
Okaloosa County71,52124,699 (35%)7,719 (11%)7,953 (11%)

Neighbors are the Florida counties that share a border with Santa Rosa County in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2026 county adjacency file. With its two neighbors, the out-of-state list grows from 5,087 to 21,313 single-family homes. Counts are single-family homes on the 2025 roll, with each county’s share in brackets.

Where the public record lives

The Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser’s roll.

One property at a time

Every count on this page starts on the Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser’s roll. Look up an address or an owner on the office’s own search and the parcel record shows the owner of record, the mailing address the tax bill goes to, the value and the exemptions. It’s free and it’s the county’s own record, one parcel at a time; it isn’t a title search. The office runs that search on its own website, srcpa.gov.

srcpa.gov, from the Florida Department of Revenue’s list of county property appraisers. Checked September 29, 2026.

Every owner that matches, as a list

The Florida Department of Revenue gathers all 67 county rolls into one statewide parcel file, and Tracer’s counts come from its 2025 version. Request Data filters that file (Santa Rosa County, single-family, absentee, out-of-state or company-owned) and turns the matches into a list you can skip trace, instead of one lookup per address.

Real numbers

One investor’s week on Tracer.

A real estate investor customer in September 2026, taken from the weekly report Tracer emailed them. We don’t publish customer names.

17,859
records traced in one week
16,759
came back with a phone number
94%
came back with a phone number that week

Your list will differ, so test it. Fresh lists of owner-occupied homes do best; old lists full of LLCs do worse. Trace 100 records free, no card.

Questions

Santa Rosa County owner lists: FAQ

Can’t find yours? Ask us directly.

How many absentee owners are in Santa Rosa County?

18,434 of the 67,871 single-family homes in Santa Rosa County (27%) have no homestead exemption on Florida's 2025 tax roll, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. That ranks #30 of Florida's 67 counties.

How many Santa Rosa County homes have out-of-state owners?

5,087 single-family homes in Santa Rosa County have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That's what the Out-of-state filter counts: it includes second homes as well as rentals.

How do I get a Santa Rosa County absentee owner list?

Create a free Tracer account, open Request Data, pick Santa Rosa, choose single-family and turn on Absentee. You see the count and the price before you pull anything (0.5¢ a record), and pulled records go straight into skip tracing.

How many Santa Rosa County homes are owned by LLCs?

4,159 single-family homes in Santa Rosa County are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. 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, Florida's business registry.

How LLC owner lookup works

How does Santa Rosa County compare with the rest of Florida on company-owned homes?

6% of its single-family homes (4,159) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust, against 9% statewide: the 15th lowest share of the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes.

How do I find out who owns a property in Santa Rosa County?

Search the address or the owner's name on the Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser's property search (srcpa.gov). The parcel record shows the owner of record on the tax roll and the mailing address the tax bill goes to; it's one property at a time, and it isn't a title search. To get every owner that matches a filter as a list, count it in Request Data, pull it at 0.5¢ a record and skip trace it for phone numbers.

Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser property search

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