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High Springs

City, Alachua County. Population 7,131 (2025), +0.2% on the prior year, +14.7% since 2020 Last updated 2026-10-04.

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High Springs

Boundary: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line, simplified for drawing. 23.02 square miles of land.

Population

2025
BEBR, April 1, 20257,131BusinessFlare® estimate, April 1, 20267,261Population, April 1, 1979 to 202519797.1k high2025

BEBR's April 1, 2025 figure carried to April 1, 2026 at Alachua County's growth rate of 1.06% a year, the annual rate in EDR's Demographic Estimating Conference county estimate for 2025 and medium projection for 2030, with the county's net new residents shared out to its places by their share of the county's net new residential units between the 2025 final and 2026 preliminary tax rolls.

Change since the prior year+0.2%2024 to 2025
Change since 2020+14.7%2020 to 2025
Census 20206,2152020

University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Florida Estimates of Population, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Demographic Estimating Conference: Projections of Florida Population by County, with Estimates for the base year, retrieved 2026-10-04 | Population estimates

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Basis of the latest figureestimate2025

Population by year

April 1 of each year. Basis is census in a census year, otherwise BEBR's estimate.

YearPopulationBasisChange
20257,131estimate+0.2%
20247,118estimate+2.1%
20236,975estimate+3.5%
20226,741estimate+3.8%
20216,496estimate+4.5%
20206,215census-3.6%
20196,444estimate+3.6%
20186,221estimate+3.3%
20176,023estimate+3.6%
20165,813estimate+1.2%
20155,742estimate+3.8%
20145,533estimate+1.7%
20135,440estimate+1.6%
20125,355estimate-0.1%
20115,358estimate+0.1%
20105,350census+9.5%
20094,886estimate+0.6%
20084,855estimate+2.4%
20074,739estimate+3.6%
20064,576estimate+3.2%
20054,432estimate+2.4%
20044,330estimate+2.9%
20034,206estimate+3.4%
20024,067estimate+2.5%
20013,967estimate+2.7%
20003,863census-2.1%
19993,944estimate+4.1%
19983,789estimate+1.4%
19973,738estimate+4.7%
19963,571estimate+2.7%
19953,477estimate+1.0%
19943,443estimate+1.3%
19933,398estimate+4.4%
19923,256estimate+2.4%
19913,181estimaten/a
19892,888estimate+3.1%
19882,802estimate+1.8%
19872,753estimate-0.4%
19862,763estimate+1.2%
19852,729estimate+4.2%
19842,620estimate+0.6%
19832,604estimate+2.1%
19822,550estimate+2.7%
19812,482estimaten/a
19792,871estimaten/a

Labor force (county figures)

Aug 2026

County figures, no city estimate published by FloridaCommerce

Unemployment rate (Alachua County)5.4%Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, Aug 2016 to Aug 2026Aug 20168.9% highAug 2026
Labor force (Alachua County)139,681Aug 2026
Employment (Alachua County)132,074Aug 2026
Unemployed (Alachua County)7,607Aug 2026
Rate a year earlier5.0%Aug 2025
Labor force, change on a year earlier+0.3%Aug 2026

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Labor force page

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Latest month is preliminaryyesAug 2026

Monthly, last three years

Not seasonally adjusted. The latest month may be preliminary.

MonthLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
Aug 2026139,681132,0747,6075.4%
Jul 2026140,103132,1427,9615.7%
Jun 2026140,465132,7197,7465.5%
May 2026141,962134,3947,5685.3%
Apr 2026145,034137,3877,6475.3%
Mar 2026144,045136,6447,4015.1%
Feb 2026144,156136,3017,8555.4%
Jan 2026142,218134,3037,9155.6%
Dec 2025143,170135,7177,4535.2%
Nov 2025143,982135,7678,2155.7%
Sep 2025144,373137,7646,6094.6%
Aug 2025139,227132,2716,9565.0%
Jul 2025140,116133,3166,8004.9%
Jun 2025139,720133,2536,4674.6%
May 2025141,117135,1925,9254.2%
Apr 2025144,563139,2195,3443.7%
Mar 2025144,004138,1465,8584.1%
Feb 2025143,301137,8105,4913.8%
Jan 2025141,714136,1585,5563.9%
Dec 2024141,724136,7954,9293.5%
Nov 2024142,655136,7905,8654.1%
Oct 2024143,727138,1425,5853.9%
Sep 2024144,106138,8455,2613.7%
Aug 2024139,329133,3555,9744.3%
Jul 2024139,993134,1665,8274.2%
Jun 2024139,791133,8275,9644.3%
May 2024138,975134,0434,9323.5%
Apr 2024142,815138,3124,5033.2%
Mar 2024140,630135,4825,1483.7%
Feb 2024141,797136,9824,8153.4%
Jan 2024140,912135,9584,9543.5%
Dec 2023141,060136,5114,5493.2%
Nov 2023143,045138,0085,0373.5%
Oct 2023144,722139,3905,3323.7%
Sep 2023144,503139,6274,8763.4%
Aug 2023140,020134,7995,2213.7%

Annual averages

YearLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
2025142,299135,8746,4254.5%
2024141,371136,0585,3133.8%
2023141,987137,3554,6323.3%
2022139,152134,9014,2513.1%
2021137,132131,5855,5474.0%
2020133,862126,1327,7305.8%
2019137,263132,9614,3023.1%
2018135,934131,2424,6923.5%
2017134,333129,0015,3324.0%
2016131,892125,9715,9214.5%
2015129,352123,3296,0234.7%
2014128,739121,7576,9825.4%
2013128,573120,8827,6916.0%
2012128,888120,0178,8716.9%
2011128,559118,6539,9067.7%

Sales and visitor spending

12 months to Mar 2026
BusinessFlare® estimate, last 12 months$127.1M

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Economic Census geographic area series, retail trade and accommodation and food services, 2017 and 2022, retrieved 2026-10-01; BusinessFlare® city-level sales and visitor spending estimate (method and error; the figures are Street Economics Pass data), retrieved 2026-10-04 | How the estimate is made

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BusinessFlare® estimate from public sources. The estimate anchors on the sales the US Census Bureau published for this place in the 2017 and 2022 Economic Census, for retail trade and for accommodation and food services, and moves them month by month with the county's sales tax returns by kind of business (Florida Department of Revenue Form 10). After the 2022 anchor the place's share of the county moves with the growth of its commercial property on the Department's 2026 tax roll, as submitted by the county property appraiser, by use code: stores, shopping centers, supermarkets and auto dealers for retail; restaurants, bars and hotels for accommodation and food. The three spending groups follow the county's kind code mix within each sector. Every place with both anchors was carried from 2017 to 2022 the same way and the landing on the 2022 Census figure is the published error.

A landing error over 25% carries a wide error flag. The error is published with every figure; an estimate is never shown without it. Rounded to the nearest hundred thousand dollars; the monthly series is pass data.

Statewide median error, 2017 to 2022 back-test15.7%2017 to 2022
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): Census sales 2017$65.4M2017
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): Census sales 2022$121M2022
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): 2022 landing error29.1%2022
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): Census sales 2017$7.06M2017
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): Census sales 2022$6.36M2022
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): 2022 landing error64.6%2022

Economic Census anchors and the back-test

SectorCensus sales 2017Census sales 20222017 carried to 2022Landing error
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45)$65.4M$121M$85.7M29.1%
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72)$7.06M$6.36M$10.5M64.6%
  • wide error: the 2017 carry-forward landed 29% from the 2022 Census figure for Retail trade (NAICS 44-45)
  • wide error: the 2017 carry-forward landed 65% from the 2022 Census figure for Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72)

Business base

Aug 2026
Licensed food service, lodging and alcohol businesses60New licenses by month, Sep 2016 to Aug 2026Sep 20162 highAug 2026
Food service licenses23Aug 2026
Lodging licenses15Aug 2026
Alcoholic beverage licenses22Aug 2026
New licenses, last 12 months5Aug 2026
New business filings, last 12 months (postal city)214Sep 2026
Change on the 12 months before+0.5%Sep 2026
New filings, latest month20Sep 2026

Florida DBPR active licensure base files: public food service, public lodging and retail alcoholic beverage licenses, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) bulk corporate data files, new entity filings by month, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Licenses Business formations

Licenses are placed inside the city limits by their geocoded address.

Business formations are by postal city: High Springs, which is not the city limits.

No ZIP code has its Census internal point inside this place, so ZIP Code Business Patterns are not shown.

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Licenses by type

Counted licenses in DBPR's food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage files, placed by geocoded address.

License typeFileActive
2010-SEATfood18
2APSalcohol11
2007-DWEL-SNGLlodging10
2COPalcohol5
2014-MFDVfood5
4COP-SFSalcohol4
2003-NAPTlodging3
3PSalcohol2
2002-MOTLlodging1
2007-DWEL-CLCTlodging1

Filings by entity type, last 12 months

Sunbiz new entity filings by the ZIP code of the principal address, grouped to the USPS postal city (postal city: High Springs)

Entity typeLast 12 months12 months before
Florida limited liability companies194192
Florida profit corporations1214
Florida non-profit corporations77
Out of state entities registering in Florida00
Partnerships, trusts and other filings10

Building permits

Aug 2026
Housing units permitted, last 12 months28Housing units permitted by month, Dec 2009 to Aug 2026Dec 200910 highAug 2026
Change on the 12 months before-15.2%Aug 2026
Permit valuation, last 12 months$15.6MAug 2026
Units, latest month1Aug 2026
Single family units, last 12 months26Aug 2026
Units in buildings of 5 or more, last 12 months0Aug 2026
Units, latest annual table332025

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, place and county residential permits, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Building permits

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Monthly, last three years

Residential permits as the Bureau publishes them; imputed months are the Bureau's imputations.

MonthUnits1 unit5 or moreValuation
Aug 2026110$160K
Jul 2026110$450K
Jun 2026330$2.3M
May 2026530$993K
Apr 2026220$1.07M
Mar 2026000$0
Feb 2026000$0
Jan 2026440$5.44M
Dec 2025440$1.85M
Nov 2025000$0
Oct 2025440$1.5M
Sep 2025440$1.81M
Aug 2025440$614K
Jul 2025220$854K
Jun 2025330$1.77M
May 2025110$150K
Apr 2025550$1.2M
Mar 2025330$990K
Feb 2025220$443K
Jan 2025110$168K
Dec 2024330$490K
Nov 2024440$1.01M
Oct 2024440$730K
Sep 2024110$800K
Aug 2024770$5.7M
Jul 2024110$190K
Jun 2024110$168K
May 2024440$1.66M
Apr 2024330$964K
Mar 2024330$848K
Feb 2024110$200K
Jan 2024970$1.25M
Dec 2023220$308K
Nov 2023330$1.03M
Oct 2023440$2.17M
Sep 2023330$1.27M

Annual table

YearUnits1 unit5 or moreValuation
202533330$11.4M
202441390$14M
202344400$12M
202283830$12.6M
202196960$14.1M
202084840$12.4M
201967670$9.86M
201866660$9.71M
201759590$8.68M
201650500$7.36M
201545450$6.62M
201451510$6.65M
201343430$5.84M
201217170$1.69M
201125250$2.43M

Property roll

2026 preliminary
Total just value$957M
Total taxable value (non school)$521M2026 preliminary
Total taxable value (school)$614M2026 preliminary
Just value, change on the prior roll+3.9%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Taxable value (non school), change on the prior roll+11.6%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Total just value, prior roll$920M2025 final roll
New construction value$26.3M2026 preliminary
Parcels4,0832026 preliminary

Florida Department of Revenue, NAL tax roll (name, address, legal), 2026 preliminary and final as posted, retrieved 2026-10-04

Parcels are placed by Census block group through the Census Bureau's block assignment file; a parcel in a block group that straddles the limits is apportioned. Census 2020 block groups; 58% of the county's just value lies in a place. Medians are over the parcels whose block group lies mostly in the place. Qualified sales: the roll's own sale fields, qualification codes 01 and 02, improved, single parcel.

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Median single family just value$209K2026 preliminary
Qualified sales, last 12 months67Jun 2025 to May 2026
Median qualified sale price$258KJun 2025 to May 2026
Just value, residential$643M2026 preliminary
Just value, commercial$59.7M2026 preliminary
Just value, industrial$43.3M2026 preliminary
Just value, agricultural$112M2026 preliminary
Just value, vacant$38.4M2026 preliminary
Just value, institutional$23.7M2026 preliminary
Just value, government$31.3M2026 preliminary
Just value, other$5.83M2026 preliminary

Just value by use group

Department of Revenue land use codes grouped: residential 001 to 009, commercial 011 to 039, industrial 041 to 049, agricultural 050 to 069, vacant 000, 010, 040 and 070, institutional 071 to 079, government 080 to 089, other 090 to 099. Taxable is the non school taxable value. Just value change compares with the 2025 final roll, summed the same way.

Use groupParcelsJust valueTaxable (non school)New constructionResidential unitsJust value change
Residential2,638$643M$363M$15.6M2,917+2.9%
Commercial131$59.7M$49.5M$1.33Mn/a+9.3%
Industrial46$43.3M$36.9M$7.26Mn/a+34.4%
Agricultural356$112M$34.9M$1.84Mn/a-1.2%
Vacant734$38.4M$28.3M$9.06Kn/a+8.4%
Institutional55$23.7M$6.49M$213Kn/a+2.0%
Government79$31.3M$62.1K$0n/a+0.4%
Other45$5.83M$1.47M$2.22Kn/a-3.4%

Housing

2020 to 2024 ACS
Housing units2,415Homeownership rate, 1990 to 2024199084.0% high2024
Occupied units2,1652020 to 2024 ACS
Vacant units2502020 to 2024 ACS
Owner occupied households1,8262020-2024 5-Year
Renter occupied households3392020-2024 5-Year
Homeownership rate84.3%2020 to 2024 ACS
Cost burdened households, all tenures (over 30% of income)17.0%2025
Cost burdened renter households54.1%2025

Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Housing data

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Severely cost burdened renters (over 50%)32.9%2025
Median gross rent$1.88K2020 to 2024 ACS
Median single family sale price$280K2024

Cost burden by income, 2025

Households by the share of income spent on housing, Shimberg Center estimates for 2025.

TenureIncome (share of area median)30% or less30.1 to 50%Over 50%
All households30% AMI or less122168
All households30.01-50% AMI34718154
All households50.01-80% AMI17610426
All households80.01-120% AMI291300
All householdsGreater than 120% AMI1,366290
Renters30% AMI or less12012
Renters30.01-50% AMI8918125
Renters50.01-80% AMI184812
Renters80.01-120% AMI12300
RentersGreater than 120% AMI7700
Owners30% AMI or less02156
Owners30.01-50% AMI258029
Owners50.01-80% AMI1585614
Owners80.01-120% AMI27900
OwnersGreater than 120% AMI1,289290

Single family sales by year

YearMedian priceSales
1996$60K39
1997$54.5K40
1998$66.9K65
1999$68.9K90
2000$80.2K72
2001$90.5K90
2002$98.9K85
2003$110K110
2004$144K138
2005$165K197
2006$172K126
2007$180K107
2008$151K67
2009$159K61
2010$126K48
2011$125K58
2012$131K60
2013$160K61
2014$176K113
2015$195K116

Fiscal

Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, latest month$36KHalf-cent sales tax distributions by month, Oct 2016 to Sep 2026Oct 2016$43.4K highSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, fiscal year to date$436KFY2026 to Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, last 12 months$436KSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, change on the 12 months before-4.4%Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, latest month$24.5KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, fiscal year to date$302KFY2026 to Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, last 12 months$302KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, change on the 12 months before+1.9%Sep 2026

Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Expenditures and Revenues Reported by Florida's County and Municipal Governments, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Department of Revenue, Revenue Confirmation Online, distributions to local governments, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Department of Financial Services, LOGERx local government Annual Financial Report data, long-term debt outstanding, retrieved 2026-10-04 | Distributions Annual financial report

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Total revenues$23.4MFY2024
Revenues, change on the year before+36.5%FY2024
Total expenditures$21.3MFY2024
Expenditures, change on the year before+15.4%FY2024
Revenues per resident$3.29KFY2024
Long-term debt outstanding at year end$9.39MFY2024
Long-term debt, change on the year before-4.7%FY2024

Half-cent sales tax, monthly distributions

As the Department of Revenue's ledger prints them; a blank month is a month with no line.

MonthDistributed
Sep 2026$36K
Aug 2026$36.3K
Jul 2026$37.9K
Jun 2026$36.1K
May 2026$39.5K
Apr 2026$33.9K
Mar 2026$33.9K
Feb 2026$39.5K
Jan 2026$35.4K
Dec 2025$37.1K
Nov 2025$36.5K
Oct 2025$34.1K
Sep 2025$37.7K
Aug 2025$36.8K
Jul 2025$38.4K
Jun 2025$39.8K
May 2025$40.8K
Apr 2025$37.9K
Mar 2025$33.8K
Feb 2025$40.1K
Jan 2025$38.1K
Dec 2024$39.3K
Nov 2024$36K
Oct 2024$37.8K
Sep 2024$36.1K
Aug 2024$36.5K
Jul 2024$37.4K
Jun 2024$38.6K
May 2024$41.3K
Apr 2024$38.9K
Mar 2024$35.9K
Feb 2024$40.5K
Jan 2024$37.1K
Dec 2023$38K
Nov 2023$38.9K
Oct 2023$37.4K

State revenue sharing, monthly distributions

As the Department of Revenue's ledger prints them; a blank month is a month with no line.

MonthDistributed
Sep 2026$24.5K
Aug 2026$24.5K
Jul 2026$24.5K
Jun 2026$24.8K
May 2026$24.8K
Apr 2026$24.8K
Mar 2026$24.8K
Feb 2026$24.8K
Jan 2026$24.8K
Dec 2025$26.6K
Nov 2025$26.6K
Oct 2025$26.6K
Sep 2025$27.3K
Aug 2025$27.3K
Jul 2025$27.3K
Jun 2025$23.3K
May 2025$23.3K
Apr 2025$23.3K
Mar 2025$23.3K
Feb 2025$23.3K
Jan 2025$23.3K
Dec 2024$23.3K
Nov 2024$25.7K
Oct 2024$25.7K
Sep 2024$25.7K
Aug 2024$25.7K
Jul 2024$25.7K
Jun 2024$25.6K
May 2024$25.6K
Apr 2024$25.6K
Mar 2024$25.6K
Feb 2024$25.6K
Jan 2024$25.6K
Dec 2023$25.6K
Nov 2023$25.6K
Oct 2023$25.6K

Long-term debt by fiscal year

Total long-term debt outstanding at fiscal year end, all funds, as the government reported it to the Department of Financial Services in its Annual Financial Report.

Fiscal yearDebt outstandingChange
FY2024$9.39M-4.7%
FY2023$9.85M-15.9%
FY2022$11.7M+62.8%
FY2021$7.19M-3.9%
FY2020$7.49M-2.6%
FY2019$7.69M+0.9%
FY2018$7.62M-2.2%
FY2017$7.79M-2.1%
FY2016$7.96M-3.1%
FY2015$8.22M-1.0%
FY2014$8.3M-5.2%
FY2013$8.75Mn/a

Revenues by category, FY2024

Sum of the fund columns in EDR's workbook for this government.

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Taxes$4.48M$3.49M+28.4%
Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments$1.22M$1.16M+5.3%
Intergovernmental Revenues$5.21M$3.89M+33.9%
Charges for Services$5.35M$4.84M+10.5%
Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits$19.1K$14.9K+28.0%
Miscellaneous Revenues$3M$1.44M+108.6%
Other Sources$4.17M$2.35M+77.8%
Taxesn/an/an/a
Intergovernmental Revenuen/an/an/a
Permits and Franchise Feesn/an/an/a

Expenditures by category, FY2024

Sum of the fund columns in EDR's workbook for this government.

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Services (Not Court-Related)$5.47M$4.05M+35.0%
Public Safety$5.63M$5.28M+6.5%
Physical Environment$4.7M$4.97M-5.5%
Transportation$683K$1.11M-38.2%
Economic Environment$161K$272K-40.8%
Culture / Recreation$1.1M$841K+30.8%
Other Uses and Non-Operating$3.6M$1.97M+83.3%
Other Usesn/an/an/a

Bank deposits

June 30, 2026
Deposits (offices reporting this city)$144MDeposits, June 30 each year, 1994 to 20261994$144M high2026
Change on a year earlier+4.1%June 30, 2026
Change, real+0.9%June 30, 2026
Branches2June 30, 2026
Institutions2June 30, 2026
Branches opened since the survey a year earlier0June 30, 2026
Branches closed since the survey a year earlier0June 30, 2026

FDIC Summary of Deposits, Florida offices, every June 30 since 1994, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Bank deposits

Offices whose reported city is High Springs.

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Offices, June 30, 2026

Deposits as each office reports them to the FDIC; the city is the one the bank reports, not a municipal boundary.

InstitutionBranchAddressCityDeposits
Ameris BankHigh Springs Branch18785 High Springs Main StHigh Springs$104M
Capital City BankHigh Springs Branch18467 Nw Us Highway 441, Ste 100High Springs$40.3M

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