Florida Counties Ranked by Property Records

The October 2026 edition of the county index lists 67 counties in Florida, holding 10,130,218 property records between them. That is 7.7% of every record in the index and puts Florida 3rd of the 51 states and districts by total records.

This report ranks those counties from the largest file to the smallest, then looks at the ranking from three angles: where Florida’s files sit in the national order, how the state’s records divide when its county list is cut into four equal groups, and how many files a buyer needs to cover a given share of the state. The state’s alphabetical list, with a link to every county, is on the Florida page.

Counties

67

Property records

10,130,218

Files in the national top 100

14

Files for half the state

10

Where Florida stands among the states

By record count Florida ranks 3rd. By number of counties the picture is different: 19 states have more counties than Florida. The combination matters for file size. Spread over 67 counties, Florida’s records average 151,197 per county, against 41,699 for all U.S. counties. The median Florida county file holds 89,851 records; the median county nationwide holds 13,414. A typical Florida file is therefore 6.7 times the size of a typical U.S. county file.

At the top of the state list, Miami-Dade County holds 889,277 records, 8.8% of the Florida total, and ranks 6th among all 3,142 counties in the index. The 3 largest, Miami-Dade County, Broward County and Palm Beach County, hold 22.3% of the state’s records. At the bottom, Liberty County has 3,537 records.

Four equal groups of counties

Table 1 cuts the ranked list into four groups with the same number of counties in each (give or take one where the total does not divide evenly) and adds up the records in each group. If Florida’s records were spread evenly, every group would hold a quarter of them. Instead the first group, counties ranked 1 to 16, holds 68.3%, and the last group, ranked 51 to 67, holds 1.6%. The first group outweighs the last by a factor of 43.

The last column shows the floor of each group: the smallest file a county needs to make it in. Reading down that column shows how quickly file sizes fall off once the largest counties are past.

Florida in the national ranking

14 Florida counties rank in the top 100 of all U.S. county files: Miami-Dade County (6th), Broward County (12th), Palm Beach County (17th), Lee County (19th), Hillsborough (23rd), Orange County (28th), Pinellas County (37th), Duval County (43rd), Pasco County (47th), Polk County (48th), Brevard County (61st), Volusia County (87th), Sarasota County (89th) and Collier County (100th). Together they hold 6,460,512 records, 63.8% of the state total. At the other end, 15 of the state’s 67 counties fall below the national median of 13,414 records, and 52 sit at or above it. The national rank of every Florida county is in Table 3 at the end of this report.

National rank is a useful check on a county file’s size because the Florida ranking alone cannot say whether a county is large in absolute terms or only large for its state. A county in the middle of the Florida list may still hold more records than most counties in the country, or fewer; the national column settles which.

How many files cover how much of Florida

Taking counties in order from the largest, Table 2 counts how many files it takes to reach half, three quarters, nine tenths and all of the state’s records, and what that set would cost per month at current prices. The price column uses the cheapest mix of single counties at $19/mo and five-county bundles, 5 counties for $49/mo.

Half of Florida takes 10 files, 14.9% of the state’s counties. Every county in the state takes 67 files at $675 a month. The distance between those two rows is the long tail of smaller counties: each one adds comparatively few records, but for a buyer whose market is one of them, that file is the whole market.

Every Florida county

Table 3 lists all 67 counties from largest to smallest, with the share of the state total and the county’s rank among every county in the index. Each name opens the county’s page, with its FIPS code, file columns and nearest neighbours.

Notes on the figures

A record is one property in a county file, counted in the county where the property sits. Shares are of the Florida total unless a column says otherwise. The four groups in Table 1 are formed by rank alone, so a county changes group only when its position in the ranking changes. Every number on this page is recalculated daily from the October 2026 edition and moves with each monthly edition. For how Florida compares with the other states, see property records by state.

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