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Crystal River, Citrus County: licensed businesses
Active food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage licenses placed in Crystal River from DBPR's license files, by type, with new licenses by month.
Active licenses as of DBPR's extracts of Sep 28, 2026 (food service), Sep 28, 2026 (lodging) and Oct 1, 2026 (alcoholic beverages). New lodging licenses exclude vacation rentals, which have their own count.
New licenses
New licenses by monthCrystal River12 months to Aug 2026: Food service 9; Lodging, except vacation rentals n/a; Vacation rentals n/a; Alcoholic beverages 8
New food service and lodging licenses by the month DBPR approved them, from the new establishment files, initial licenses only. Alcoholic beverage licenses by the month first issued, licenses still active only, so earlier years understate openings. A month inside a published file with no new license is zero; a month no file covers is left blank. Closures recorded since the first extract: Food service 0, Lodging, except vacation rentals 0, Vacation rentals 0, Alcoholic beverages 0.
New licenses by month, last 12 months
| Month | Food service | Lodging, except vacation rentals | Vacation rentals | Alcoholic beverages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| May 2026 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 months | 9 | n/a | n/a | 8 |
n/a: no published file covers the month. See the explained gaps on the sources page.
Active licenses by type
| License type | Division | Code | Active | DBPR summary | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food service, non-seating | Food service | 2010-NOST | 2 | ||
| Food service, seating | Food service | 2010-SEAT | 69 | ||
| Mobile food dispensing vehicle | Food service | 2014-MFDV | 15 | ||
| Hotel | Lodging | 2001-HOTL | 3 | ||
| Motel | Lodging | 2002-MOTL | 8 | ||
| Nontransient apartment | Lodging | 2003-NAPT | 11 | ||
| Bed and breakfast | Lodging | 2005-BNB | 7 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, collective | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-CLCT | 3 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, single | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-SNGL | 6 | ||
| Club, golf | Alcoholic beverages | 11CG | 1 | ||
| Beer, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 1APS | 1 | ||
| Beer and wine, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 2APS | 15 | ||
| Beer and wine, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 2COP | 19 | ||
| Liquor package store (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 3PS | 3 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP | 5 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special hotel or motel | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-S | 2 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), SA | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SA | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special food service (restaurant) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SFS | 16 |
Temporary event food vendors are in DBPR's file but not its summary, and are not counted. An alcohol license is active at primary status 20, Current; DBPR publishes no current alcohol summary to compare with.
Hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and transient apartments
Every active license of these types here, with the rental units DBPR records. Apartments, rooming houses and vacation rentals are counted above and listed in the county CSV.
| Name | Type | Address | Units | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PADDLETAIL WATERFRONT LODGE | Motel | 614 NW US HWY 19, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 113 | MOT1900063 |
| DAYS INN | Motel | 2380 N US HWY 19, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 100 | MOT1900004 |
| HOLIDAY INN CRSYTAL RIVER | Hotel | 1203 NE 5 ST, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 75 | HOT1901155 |
| HAMPTON INN CRYSTAL RIVER FL | Hotel | 1103 N SUNCOAST BLVD, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 68 | HOT1901156 |
| PLANTATION RESORT ON CRYSTAL RIVER | Motel | 9301 W FORT ISLAND TRAIL, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 58 | MOT1900183 |
| ECONO LODGE | Motel | 2575 NW US HWY 19, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 44 | MOT1900558 |
| CRYSTAL MANATEE | Motel | 310 N CITRUS AVE, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 40 | MOT1901170 |
| PORT HOTEL & MARINA | Hotel | 1610 SE PARADISE CIR, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 40 | HOT1900104 |
| CRYSTAL RIVER MOTEL | Motel | 1151 NW US 19, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 33 | MOT1901171 |
| KING'S BAY LODGE | Motel | 506 NW 1 AVE, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 18 | MOT1900116 |
| PLANTATION RESORT ON CRYSTAL RIVER | Motel | 9244 WEST FORT ISLAND TRAIL, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 12 | MOT1900387 |
| FRONT HOUSE INN | Bed and breakfast | 390 NW 14 PL, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 5 | BNB1901177 |
| THREE SISTERS INN | Bed and breakfast | 256 NE CRYSTAL, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 4 | BNB1901169 |
| CRYSTAL ST INN | Bed and breakfast | 130 NE CRYSTAL ST, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 2 | BNB1901181 |
| BLUE SEA COW | Bed and breakfast | 254 NE 5 ST, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 1 | BNB1901175 |
| CONCH HOUSE | Bed and breakfast | 114 NE 4 ST, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 1 | BNB1901179 |
| CRYSTAL COTTAGE | Bed and breakfast | 110 NE CRYSTAL ST, CRYSTAL RIVER 34428 | 1 | BNB1901173 |
| DOWNTOWN PALM INN | Bed and breakfast | 404 NE 3 ST, CRYSTAL RIVER 34429 | 1 | BNB1901180 |
Of 187 active licenses here, 151 are placed in a city by their geocoded location (80 matched exactly by the Census geocoder) and 36 by the city name as filed, where the address could not be placed. Unincorporated means outside every Census incorporated place in the county.
Sources on this page
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation: public food service license files, public lodging license files (Division of Hotels and Restaurants, one file per district, refreshed weekly) and the retail alcoholic beverage license file (Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco). Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- Validated against DBPR's own summaries on every build: the statewide license summary (HR400A, dated Oct 1, 2026) and the county license and unit summary (HR400C, dated Oct 1, 2026), by license type, within 1.5% or 15 licenses for the days between the weekly extract and the monthly summary. The retail alcohol file is compared with DBPR's all licensees file, series by series and county by county, exactly. The last alcohol count DBPR posted by county is dated July 1, 2021 and is carried in the published counts download.
- Locations. Every license address was geocoded with the US Census Bureau batch geocoder (current benchmark) and placed in a Census incorporated place (TIGERweb, retrieved 2026-10-01) by point in polygon. DBPR publishes no GIS layer of its licenses.
- Sources and methods.
Download the data
Citrus County licenses CSV Every license, statewide (CSV, gzip) New licenses CSV (gzip) DBPR published counts CSV
One row per license with its type, status, address, county, geocoded coordinates, the city it was placed in and how. The new licenses file has every approval with its month; the published counts file has every figure from DBPR's summaries since 2017.