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Lake Placid

Town, Highlands County. Population 2,419 (2025), -1.4% on the prior year, +2.5% since 2020 Last updated 2026-10-04.

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Population

2025
BEBR, April 1, 20252,419BusinessFlare® estimate, April 1, 20262,423Population, April 1, 1979 to 202519792.6k high2025

BEBR's April 1, 2025 figure carried to April 1, 2026 at Highlands County's growth rate of 0.70% 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-1.4%2024 to 2025
Change since 2020+2.5%2020 to 2025
Census 20202,3602020

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
20252,419estimate-1.4%
20242,453estimate+1.8%
20232,409estimate+1.0%
20222,385estimate+0.8%
20212,367estimate+0.3%
20202,360census-10.5%
20192,636estimate+0.2%
20182,632estimate+2.1%
20172,579estimate+0.6%
20162,564estimate+6.2%
20152,415estimate+1.7%
20142,375estimate+2.5%
20132,316estimate+2.1%
20122,268estimate+4.3%
20112,175estimate-2.2%
20102,223census+28.3%
20091,732estimate-2.7%
20081,780estimate+1.1%
20071,760estimate-0.1%
20061,762estimate+0.7%
20051,749estimate+2.0%
20041,715estimate+1.7%
20031,686estimate+0.7%
20021,675estimate+0.8%
20011,661estimate-0.4%
20001,668census+18.1%
19991,412estimate+0.3%
19981,408estimate-0.1%
19971,409estimate-1.3%
19961,427estimate+6.1%
19951,345estimate+3.8%
19941,296estimate+1.1%
19931,282estimate+6.0%
19921,210estimate+1.3%
19911,194estimaten/a
19891,172estimate+2.5%
19881,143estimate+9.8%
19871,041estimate+0.7%
19861,034estimate+4.2%
1985992estimate-1.0%
19841,002estimate+1.0%
1983992estimate+3.1%
1982962estimate-2.1%
1981983estimaten/a
1979929estimaten/a

Labor force (county figures)

Aug 2026

County figures, no city estimate published by FloridaCommerce

Unemployment rate (Highlands County)6.8%Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, Aug 2016 to Aug 2026Aug 201612.2% highAug 2026
Labor force (Highlands County)36,318Aug 2026
Employment (Highlands County)33,840Aug 2026
Unemployed (Highlands County)2,478Aug 2026
Rate a year earlier6.3%Aug 2025
Labor force, change on a year earlier0.0%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 202636,31833,8402,4786.8%
Jul 202636,22133,7472,4746.8%
Jun 202636,92934,5062,4236.6%
May 202636,76434,4852,2796.2%
Apr 202636,83234,4812,3516.4%
Mar 202636,79734,5362,2616.1%
Feb 202637,24134,7082,5336.8%
Jan 202636,83834,2422,5967.0%
Dec 202536,63434,3802,2546.2%
Nov 202536,86834,2762,5927.0%
Sep 202536,60134,3552,2466.1%
Aug 202536,30234,0322,2706.3%
Jul 202536,01633,8182,1986.1%
Jun 202536,66334,6062,0575.6%
May 202536,57234,7391,8335.0%
Apr 202536,54334,8421,7014.7%
Mar 202536,90535,1491,7564.8%
Feb 202537,08335,2061,8775.1%
Jan 202537,09435,1361,9585.3%
Dec 202436,52834,8261,7024.7%
Nov 202436,48734,6621,8255.0%
Oct 202436,64034,8111,8295.0%
Sep 202437,01235,1231,8895.1%
Aug 202437,01935,0182,0015.4%
Jul 202436,92134,8602,0615.6%
Jun 202436,79934,8751,9245.2%
May 202436,50234,9121,5904.4%
Apr 202436,62835,1261,5024.1%
Mar 202437,07035,5471,5234.1%
Feb 202436,69635,0391,6574.5%
Jan 202436,71835,0251,6934.6%
Dec 202336,31534,8211,4944.1%
Nov 202336,28134,6781,6034.4%
Oct 202336,39534,7521,6434.5%
Sep 202336,44934,7131,7364.8%
Aug 202336,44334,5971,8465.1%

Annual averages

YearLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
202536,66134,5942,0675.6%
202436,75134,9851,7664.8%
202336,47634,9101,5664.3%
202235,53534,0161,5194.3%
202134,32032,2382,0826.1%
202033,70030,9632,7378.1%
201934,68533,0711,6144.7%
201835,39333,6561,7374.9%
201735,40833,3762,0325.7%
201634,57432,2512,3236.7%
201535,31032,6372,6737.6%
201435,67132,5423,1298.8%
201335,95932,3783,58110.0%
201237,11433,1663,94810.6%
201138,04133,6054,43611.7%

Sales and visitor spending

12 months to Mar 2026
BusinessFlare® estimate, last 12 months$321.9M

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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$113M2017
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): Census sales 2022$258M2022
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): 2022 landing error36.2%2022
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): Census sales 2017n/a2017
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): Census sales 2022$22.8M2022
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): 2022 landing errorn/a2022

Economic Census anchors and the back-test

SectorCensus sales 2017Census sales 20222017 carried to 2022Landing error
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45)$113M$258M$165M36.2%
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72)n/a$22.8Mn/an/a
  • wide error: the 2017 carry-forward landed 36% from the 2022 Census figure for Retail trade (NAICS 44-45)
  • first published in 2022 for Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): no back-test for this sector

Business base

Aug 2026
Licensed food service, lodging and alcohol businesses95New licenses by month, Sep 2016 to Aug 2026Sep 20164 highAug 2026
Food service licenses45Aug 2026
Lodging licenses13Aug 2026
Alcoholic beverage licenses37Aug 2026
New licenses, last 12 months9Aug 2026
New business filings, last 12 months (postal city)385Sep 2026
Change on the 12 months before+18.5%Sep 2026
New filings, latest month27Sep 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: Lake Placid, 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-SEATfood29
2APSalcohol13
2COPalcohol11
2014-MFDVfood9
2003-NAPTlodging7
2010-NOSTfood5
4COP-SFSalcohol4
11Calcohol3
1APSalcohol3
2007-DWEL-SNGLlodging3
3PSalcohol2
2013-CATRfood2
4COPalcohol1
2001-HOTLlodging1
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: Lake Placid)

Entity typeLast 12 months12 months before
Florida limited liability companies328271
Florida profit corporations3839
Florida non-profit corporations1510
Out of state entities registering in Florida45
Partnerships, trusts and other filings00

Property roll

2026 preliminary
Total just value$390M
Total taxable value (non school)$251M2026 preliminary
Total taxable value (school)$272M2026 preliminary
Just value, change on the prior roll+1.2%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Taxable value (non school), change on the prior roll+7.4%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Total just value, prior roll$386M2025 final roll
New construction value$3.53M2026 preliminary
Parcels1,5682026 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 2010 block groups; 15% 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$110K2026 preliminary
Qualified sales, last 12 months12Jun 2025 to May 2026
Median qualified sale price$214KJun 2025 to May 2026
Just value, residential$240M2026 preliminary
Just value, commercial$61.4M2026 preliminary
Just value, industrial$7.77M2026 preliminary
Just value, agricultural$16.3M2026 preliminary
Just value, vacant$13.4M2026 preliminary
Just value, institutional$22.7M2026 preliminary
Just value, government$26.7M2026 preliminary
Just value, other$2.3M2026 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
Residential921$240M$164M$3.1M1,151-1.8%
Commercial128$61.4M$59.8M$0n/a+8.0%
Industrial38$7.77M$7.61M$173Kn/a+5.3%
Agricultural48$16.3M$4.96M$107Kn/a+4.5%
Vacant349$13.4M$11.5M$0n/a+5.8%
Institutional35$22.7M$1.36M$149Kn/a+21.0%
Government42$26.7M$0$0n/a-4.5%
Other8$2.3M$2.13M$0n/a+2.3%

Housing

2020 to 2024 ACS
Housing units1,164Homeownership rate, 1990 to 2024199057.0% high2024
Occupied units1,0092020 to 2024 ACS
Vacant units1552020 to 2024 ACS
Owner occupied households5782020-2024 5-Year
Renter occupied households4312020-2024 5-Year
Homeownership rate57.3%2020 to 2024 ACS
Cost burdened households, all tenures (over 30% of income)32.9%2025
Cost burdened renter households46.5%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%)19.6%2025
Assisted housing developments3Assisted Housing Inventory
Assisted units149Assisted Housing Inventory
Median gross rent$1.05K2020 to 2024 ACS
Median single family sale price$197K2024

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 less6089
All households30.01-50% AMI438137
All households50.01-80% AMI126890
All households80.01-120% AMI149220
All householdsGreater than 120% AMI381280
Renters30% AMI or less6080
Renters30.01-50% AMI158137
Renters50.01-80% AMI80430
Renters80.01-120% AMI95220
RentersGreater than 120% AMI124150
Owners30% AMI or less009
Owners30.01-50% AMI2800
Owners50.01-80% AMI46460
Owners80.01-120% AMI5400
OwnersGreater than 120% AMI257130

Single family sales by year

YearMedian priceSales
1996n/an/a
1997n/an/a
1998n/an/a
1999n/an/a
2000n/an/a
2001n/an/a
2002n/an/a
2003n/an/a
2004n/an/a
2005n/an/a
2006n/an/a
2007n/an/a
2008$160K25
2009$95K17
2010$91.5K15
2011$115K17
2012$60K13
2013$82.5K20
2014$70.8K22
2015$170K29

Assisted housing developments

Shimberg Center Assisted Housing Inventory.

DevelopmentAddressCityUnitsAssisted
Highlands Cove I454 Maclyn CircleLake Placid6464
Thornbury31 Chelsea StreetLake Placid4848
Heron's Landing1 Heron's Landing DriveLake Placid3737

Fiscal

Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, latest month$13.3KHalf-cent sales tax distributions by month, Oct 2016 to Sep 2026Oct 2016$19.3K highSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, fiscal year to date$161KFY2026 to Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, last 12 months$161KSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, change on the 12 months before-3.8%Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, latest month$6.65KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, fiscal year to date$81.8KFY2026 to Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, last 12 months$81.8KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, change on the 12 months before+1.8%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$11.5MFY2024
Revenues, change on the year before+10.5%FY2024
Total expenditures$7.08MFY2024
Expenditures, change on the year before-7.3%FY2024
Revenues per resident$4.69KFY2024
Long-term debt outstanding at year end$467KFY2024
Long-term debt, change on the year before+204.2%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$13.3K
Aug 2026$13.3K
Jul 2026$12.9K
Jun 2026$14.6K
May 2026$16.8K
Apr 2026$13.9K
Mar 2026$14.3K
Feb 2026$13.7K
Jan 2026$10.2K
Dec 2025$13.8K
Nov 2025$12.2K
Oct 2025$12.2K
Sep 2025$14K
Aug 2025$13.9K
Jul 2025$14.1K
Jun 2025$15.7K
May 2025$17.1K
Apr 2025$15.2K
Mar 2025$13.9K
Feb 2025$13.4K
Jan 2025$13.8K
Dec 2024$12.8K
Nov 2024$11.5K
Oct 2024$12.3K
Sep 2024$12.9K
Aug 2024$12.8K
Jul 2024$14K
Jun 2024$14.7K
May 2024$17K
Apr 2024$15K
Mar 2024$14.4K
Feb 2024$15K
Jan 2024$12.1K
Dec 2023$13.7K
Nov 2023$13.6K
Oct 2023$13.1K

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$6.65K
Aug 2026$6.65K
Jul 2026$6.65K
Jun 2026$6.74K
May 2026$6.74K
Apr 2026$6.74K
Mar 2026$6.74K
Feb 2026$6.74K
Jan 2026$6.74K
Dec 2025$7.13K
Nov 2025$7.13K
Oct 2025$7.13K
Sep 2025$7.31K
Aug 2025$7.31K
Jul 2025$7.31K
Jun 2025$6.37K
May 2025$6.37K
Apr 2025$6.37K
Mar 2025$6.37K
Feb 2025$6.37K
Jan 2025$6.37K
Dec 2024$6.37K
Nov 2024$6.9K
Oct 2024$6.9K
Sep 2024$6.9K
Aug 2024$6.9K
Jul 2024$6.9K
Jun 2024$6.97K
May 2024$6.97K
Apr 2024$6.97K
Mar 2024$6.97K
Feb 2024$6.97K
Jan 2024$6.97K
Dec 2023$6.97K
Nov 2023$6.97K
Oct 2023$6.97K

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$467K+204.2%
FY2023$153K-26.5%
FY2022$209K-37.2%
FY2021$332K-26.7%
FY2020$453K-20.8%
FY2019$572K-19.3%
FY2018$709K-27.9%
FY2017$983K+7.2%
FY2016$917K-10.8%
FY2015$1.03M-9.6%
FY2014$1.14M-8.6%
FY2013$1.24Mn/a

Revenues by category, FY2024

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

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Taxes$2.32M$1.87M+24.4%
Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments$332K$720K-53.9%
Intergovernmental Revenues$1.24M$374K+231.9%
Charges for Services$3.75M$3.59M+4.7%
Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits$37.5K$33.6K+11.6%
Miscellaneous Revenues$439K$100K+337.0%
Other Sources$3.39M$3.74M-9.4%
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)$829K$378K+119.1%
Public Safety$1.15M$1.05M+9.7%
Physical Environment$3.99M$4.24M-6.0%
Transportation$379K$493K-23.2%
Human Services$50.4K$43.8K+15.3%
Culture / Recreation$517K$510K+1.3%
Other Uses and Non-Operating$167K$921K-81.8%
Other Usesn/an/an/a

Bank deposits

June 30, 2026
Deposits (offices reporting this city)$372MDeposits, June 30 each year, 1994 to 20261994$520M high2026
Change on a year earlier-14.6%June 30, 2026
Change, real-17.3%June 30, 2026
Branches3June 30, 2026
Institutions3June 30, 2026
Branches opened since the survey a year earlier1June 30, 2026
Branches closed since the survey a year earlier1June 30, 2026

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

Offices whose reported city is Lake Placid.

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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
Seacoast National BankLake Placid Branch600 Us Highway 27 NLake Placid$219M
Crews Bank & TrustLake Placid Branch102 E Interlake BlvdLake Placid$129M
Gulf Atlantic BankGab Lake Placid Branch120 Us 27 SLake Placid$23.5M

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