How Many Florida Homes Are Held in Trust? County Data for 2026
600,542 Florida homes are owned by a trust, which is 6.11% of the state’s 9,830,053 residential parcels. The property roll values those homes at $347.5 billion. A homestead exemption shows on 270,615 trust parcels, which means the owner lives in the home and has already placed it in a trust. Land trusts are counted apart from family trusts, and they hold 18,150 of the homes. The counts come from the 2026 Florida Department of Revenue property roll, read county by county on September 30, 2026.
600,542
Homes held in trust (6.11% of residential parcels)
$347.5 billion
Just value of those homes on the roll
268,631
Homesteads in a family trust
20,880
Parcels in a land trust, counted separately
Of the 600,542 homes in trust, 582,392 are in a family trust (5.92% of residential parcels) and 18,150 are in a land trust. Counting every kind of property, 651,646 parcels are held in trust, worth $374.5 billion. A further 4,911 parcels name a bank, company or public body as trustee and are left out of every count.
Six county rolls write the owner’s own name without the trustee designation, so trusts there are undercounted and the true statewide figure is somewhat higher. Across the other 61 counties, 6.26% of residential parcels are in a family trust.
Homes held in a family trust, county by county
Collier County leads the state, with 19.15% of residential parcels in a family trust. Sarasota, Lee, Indian River and Sumter follow. Lee has the most homes in a family trust (64,041), then Miami-Dade (51,589) and Collier (45,852). Select a column heading to sort the table. The six undercounted counties stay greyed at the bottom whatever the sort.
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For each Florida county, the number of homes held in a family trust, their share of residential parcels, how many carry a homestead exemption, and the number of parcels in a land trust, from the 2026 property roll
Collier
45,852
19.15%
21,485
1,204
Sarasota
38,308
13.16%
21,123
451
Lee
64,041
12.15%
29,159
401
Indian River
10,572
12.09%
6,154
3
Sumter
10,927
11.45%
7,757
49
Charlotte
19,508
9.31%
8,571
94
Pinellas
34,740
8.60%
18,627
1,351
Hernando
8,837
8.20%
4,905
118
Volusia
21,657
7.91%
10,140
178
Okaloosa
7,731
7.66%
3,037
219
Martin
5,752
7.46%
3,691
206
St. Lucie
12,753
7.27%
7,194
28
Marion
16,858
6.60%
9,512
531
St. Johns
9,999
6.43%
6,316
455
Walton
5,100
6.35%
1,313
340
Miami-Dade
51,589
6.19%
25,773
85
Hillsborough
29,012
6.01%
18,118
302
Nassau
3,160
6.01%
1,896
102
Brevard
18,862
5.82%
10,240
606
Highlands
5,562
5.71%
1,413
94
DeSoto
730
5.62%
336
6
Monroe
2,791
5.62%
881
1,745
Lafayette
186
5.21%
53
2
Seminole
8,393
5.08%
4,877
428
Lake
9,704
5.01%
5,931
366
Bay
5,913
4.93%
1,706
62
Palm Beach
30,446
4.93%
2,618floor, see note
1,096
Gulf
806
4.68%
126
11
Levy
1,735
4.59%
463
8
Hendry
1,153
3.93%
202
110
Washington
1,423
3.92%
128
16
Santa Rosa
3,734
3.82%
1,702
50
Bradford
450
3.79%
198
37
Pasco
10,907
3.79%
5,728
1,406
Duval
12,924
3.52%
7,061
2,139
Leon
3,432
3.44%
1,609
247
Okeechobee
908
3.44%
170
50
Orange
14,829
3.31%
7,029
1,629
Glades
245
3.18%
66
5
Jackson
877
3.16%
202
31
Broward
21,702
3.13%
754floor, see note
1,530
Jefferson
200
3.12%
102
8
Escambia
4,373
3.06%
1,754
51
Gilchrist
277
2.94%
135
7
Taylor
410
2.93%
71
13
Suwannee
646
2.78%
201
17
Putnam
2,258
2.54%
297
447
Polk
8,462
2.49%
3,917
1,525
Osceola
4,804
2.41%
1,675
501
Hardee
199
2.36%
126
3
Liberty
73
2.19%
16
3
Union
76
2.13%
59
0
Columbia
598
2.12%
236
107
Flagler
1,713
2.08%
730
131
Wakulla
414
1.93%
125
8
Holmes
131
1.73%
50
17
Hamilton
142
1.71%
23
4
Madison
145
1.54%
49
13
Franklin
205
1.27%
17
2
Calhoun
85
1.20%
17
11
Dixie
134
1.08%
24
8
AlachuaUndercounted, not ranked
131
0.14%
25
19
BakerUndercounted, not ranked
68
0.73%
31
21
CitrusUndercounted, not ranked
1,252
0.92%
297
36
ClayUndercounted, not ranked
764
0.77%
240
66
GadsdenUndercounted, not ranked
172
0.84%
73
27
ManateeUndercounted, not ranked
552
0.25%
77
44
The greyed counties are Alachua, Baker, Citrus, Clay, Gadsden and Manatee. Their property rolls record the owner’s own name with no trustee designation, and the roll’s separate fiduciary fields are empty statewide, so a trust-owned home in those counties looks like any other home. Manatee shows 552 homes in a family trust against 38,308 in neighboring Sarasota. The six counties’ figures are shown for completeness and should not be compared with the other counties. Broward and Palm Beach record the homestead exemption on few trust-held homes, 3 and 9 percent against 44 to 71 percent in every other large county, so read their homestead counts as a floor.
What the owner name says about the trust
The roll’s owner field is short, so the kind of trust is written out only about a fifth of the time. Of the 651,646 trust parcels, 118,647 (18.2%) say revocable or living trust, 3,598 say irrevocable, 115 say testamentary and 508,406 (78.0%) do not say. Most of the unstated trusts are probably revocable living trusts, and the revocable count is a floor. 273,507 parcels name one trustee, 98,136 name two or more, and 280,003 name the trust itself as owner.
Florida land trusts appear in three forms on the roll. 13,585 parcels carry the words land trust, 6,759 carry a trust number, and 536 name a title company or land trust service company as trustee. A land trust is used mainly for privacy and easy transfer, which is why the dataset keeps it apart from the family trusts people use to plan their estates.
A revocable living trust lets a home pass to the family without probate, and a Florida homestead keeps its exemption in the trust when the owner keeps the beneficial interest. The Florida revocable living trust guide covers how the trust works and what it costs, and putting a Florida homestead in a revocable trust covers the homestead rules.
How the counts were made
The source is the Name-Address-Legal property file the Florida Department of Revenue publishes for each county. The 2026 files are the preliminary roll for 66 counties and the final roll for Citrus County. Every parcel was first sorted by an owner classifier that reads the owner name and the land use code. A parcel counts as held in trust when the owner name contains the word trust or a trustee abbreviation (TR, TRS, TRE, TTEE, TRUSTEE and similar). Names that also carry a bank, company or public body marker were set aside, which removes mortgage securitization trusts, boards of trustees and conservation land trusts.
Each trust parcel was then read for the kind of trust, the number of trustees and the homestead exemption. A parcel counts as a homestead when the roll shows a homestead exemption value for it. Residential parcels follow the Department of Revenue residential use codes, which include vacant residential lots as well as houses, condominiums and mobile homes. Family trust counts are the trust counts with land trusts taken out.
Limits
The classification reads the owner name only, not the trust document. Nothing here confirms a trust’s terms or who its beneficiaries are.
The name field is short and often truncated, so about 78% of trust parcels do not state revocable or irrevocable.
Alachua, Baker, Citrus, Clay, Gadsden and Manatee record the owner’s own name with no trustee designation and undercount trusts. The statewide totals include them as they stand.
Banks, companies and public bodies named as trustee are excluded and counted separately (4,911 parcels).
Land trusts are parsed out (numbered, named and those with a corporate trustee) and reported separately from family trusts.
Homestead means the parcel shows a homestead exemption value on the roll. Broward and Palm Beach show far fewer homesteads among trust homes than other large counties (3% and 9%, against 44% to 71% elsewhere), so read their homestead counts as a floor.
The roll is the 2026 preliminary roll, except Citrus, which is final. Values and exemptions can change before the roll is certified.
Data and citation
The data is free to reuse with credit. The county CSV file holds all 67 rows with every column, the statewide JSON file holds the totals and breakdowns, and the data dictionary defines each column. The full dataset, with the build script and the findings, is kept on GitHub. No owner name, address or parcel number is published.
Please cite this page as Klagge, Kevin D., Florida Homes Held in Trust, by County (2026), StepUpLaw, https://stepuplaw.com/data/florida-homes-held-in-trust/.
Klagge, Kevin D., Florida Homes Held in Trust, by County (2026), StepUpLaw, https://stepuplaw.com/data/florida-homes-held-in-trust/.
The counts are rebuilt when the Department of Revenue publishes the certified roll. Corrections are welcome at [email protected].
Compiled by Kevin D. Klagge, Esq., Fla. Bar No. 99502. This is reference information, not legal advice, and reading it creates no attorney-client relationship. Whether a trust suits a particular home depends on facts a table cannot hold.
