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Florida Land Ownership Statistics 2026

How much of Florida is vacant land, how many of its property owners live away from what they own, and which counties stand out — counted from Florida DOR parcel records for 67 counties (2026 preliminary roll; 2026 final roll).

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Key statistics

  1. 11,090,196

    Florida has 11,090,196 parcels on record across the 67 counties with published parcel rolls.

    Scope: 67 counties with published parcel rolls.

  2. 13%

    1,475,235 Florida parcels — 13% of all parcels — are vacant land with no building on them.

    Scope: 67 counties with published parcel rolls.

  3. 53%

    53% of Florida property owners — 5,879,667 ownership records — are absentee: their mailing address is not the parcel's.

    Scope: 66 counties that publish owner mailing addresses.

  4. 14%

    1,543,548 Florida property owners (14%) have a mailing address in another state.

    Scope: 66 counties that publish owner mailing addresses.

  5. 97%

    The highest absentee-owner share in Florida is Gilchrist County at 97%, followed by Dixie County (88%) and DeSoto County (85%).

    Scope: counties with at least 1,000 mailable owners.

  6. 36%

    The highest out-of-state owner share in Florida is Walton County at 36%, followed by Monroe County (35%) and Gulf County (35%).

    Scope: counties with at least 1,000 mailable owners.

  7. 129,303

    Lee County has the most vacant land parcels in Florida: 129,303, followed by Polk County (109,356) and Charlotte County (92,206).

    Scope: 67 counties with published parcel rolls.

  8. 0.4 ac

    In the typical Florida county, the median vacant parcel is 0.4 acres; county medians run from 0.2 to 2 acres.

    Scope: 67 counties with published parcel rolls.

  9. 12,683

    12,683 Florida vacant-land owners are behind on their property taxes, per the 14 counties whose delinquent-tax lists we track.

    Scope: 14 counties with a current delinquent-tax list.

By county

67 counties, A to Z. Owner-location columns are blank where the county's records can't support the mailing-vs-parcel comparison.

CountyParcelsVacant parcelsVacant %Absentee %Out-of-state %Median vacant acres
Alachua County109,37810,93710%49%6%0.4
Baker County13,1821,89814%57%5%1
Bay County131,06023,48218%64%25%0.3
Bradford County15,8833,23820%60%4%1.1
Brevard County350,71052,49015%58%12%0.2
Broward County754,5499,7041%55%10%0.2
Calhoun County13,2943,35425%81%22%0.9
Charlotte County222,62392,20641%66%30%0.2
Citrus County147,81557,68539%61%18%0.3
Clay County105,83714,05013%43%12%0.3
Collier County297,63524,0108%73%24%1.1
Columbia County37,6465,32714%36%5%1.1
DeSoto County20,1993,51917%85%9%0.5
Dixie County16,5145,86536%88%14%0.6
Duval County404,02325,0276%53%10%0.2
Escambia County171,48319,16811%46%16%0.3
Flagler County89,04317,88620%49%17%0.2
Franklin County18,5616,79737%75%30%0.8
Gadsden County27,9275,94821%65%8%1
Gilchrist County14,7633,02620%97%11%1
Glades County11,6483,08526%82%15%0.3
Gulf County20,1687,29336%80%35%0.4
Hamilton County13,1974,79236%36%17%1.5
Hardee County15,3122,42116%70%8%0.5
Hendry County35,81015,33043%74%12%0.3
Hernando County120,40821,75818%43%12%0.5
Highlands County112,74852,51247%73%19%0.2
Hillsborough County527,63627,0315%37%8%0.2
Holmes County14,6312,70919%38%11%1
Indian River County95,4469,51210%49%13%0.2
Jackson County40,30114,62036%76%15%1.2
Jefferson County12,3532,13617%71%11%2
Lafayette County7,4631,66822%78%7%1.1
Lake County215,80628,58513%42%9%0.3
Lee County561,559129,30323%62%25%0.3
Leon County111,37910,5509%46%5%0.5
Levy County47,38119,53241%48%14%0.8
Liberty County6,0121,04617%68%11%1
Madison County16,4834,37127%75%10%1.3
Manatee County236,53123,85010%48%17%0.2
Marion County286,14883,82029%55%14%0.3
Martin County98,19710,76111%58%12%0.5
Miami-Dade County938,30836,3654%53%5%0.2
Monroe County89,1629,61011%83%35%0.2
Nassau County59,9438,94815%51%11%0.5
Okaloosa County113,90811,77410%58%19%0.9
Okeechobee County31,38312,25139%73%14%1.3
Orange County493,48926,7945%43%9%1
Osceola County214,33529,75214%52%18%0.3
Palm Beach County657,49017,4693%48%14%0.2
Pasco County335,73836,66911%83%14%0.2
Pinellas County433,77014,4293%46%13%0.2
Polk County435,650109,35625%56%15%0.5
Putnam County98,03653,60755%47%22%0.2
Santa Rosa County122,24420,71417%46%16%0.5
Sarasota County307,17749,42216%57%24%0.2
Seminole County179,7058,0214%27%7%0.3
St. Johns County168,44815,9309%39%10%0.3
St. Lucie County192,34623,12812%44%11%0.2
Sumter County105,71611,51111%32%13%0.2
Suwannee County39,02310,11226%22%21%1.8
Taylor County19,7295,78629%66%15%0.9
Union County7,11171910%66%4%1
Volusia County310,94142,08214%50%12%0.4
Wakulla County26,7297,76629%62%11%0.3
Walton County94,60121,69623%69%36%0.4
Washington County46,47229,02262%0.3

How these numbers are counted

  • Parcels are every record on the county's published parcel roll; vacant land is the county's own vacant land-use codes (no building value).
  • Absentee means the owner's mailing address differs from the parcel's address; out-of-state means the mailing address is in another state. Both are shares of owners with a mailable address, and are omitted for counties whose parcel addresses can't support the comparison.
  • Counts are deduplicated by owner and mailing address where the source allows it. Figures change when a county publishes a new roll.
  • Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Cite as: Land Lead Directory, "Florida Land Ownership Statistics 2026", Florida DOR (2026 preliminary roll; 2026 final roll). https://landleaddirectory.com/statistics/florida
  • The same county files for every state we cover are also on Kaggle, Hugging Face and GitHub.

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