Methodology

HOA Census is compiled from public records published by Florida state agencies. This page documents exactly where the data comes from, how it is processed and verified, and what it does not cover.

Sources

Florida DBPR — Division of Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes

The Department of Business & Professional Regulation publishes extracts of every condominium and cooperative association it regulates: association name, county, unit count, recorded date, filing status, and the managing entity of record. This is the backbone of the Florida dataset and the source of unit counts and status fields.

Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz)

The state corporate registry. Association corporate filings (including homeowners’ associations, which DBPR does not comprehensively register) are matched to DBPR records to confirm legal names, corporate status, and registered agents. Sunbiz’s quarterly bulk extracts are the matching source.

Collection & update cadence

• DBPR condominium and cooperative extracts are fetched on a scheduled pipeline run; each run is recorded with row counts in an audit table (pipeline_runs).
• Sunbiz bulk data is refreshed on the registry’s quarterly publication cycle.
• Every page on this site displays the as-of date of the extract behind its figures. Statistics are recomputed and re-dated on every load (stats_snapshots), so a cited number can always be traced to a dated snapshot.

Processing & verification

1. Staging. Source files are loaded as-is into typed staging tables. Nothing is edited by hand; every run is replayable from the original artifacts.
2. Classification. Records are classified (condominium, cooperative, HOA, timeshare, mobile-home, master association) using the source program field and name-pattern rules. Ambiguous records are batch-reviewed and carry a stored confidence score rather than being silently dropped.
3. Resolution. DBPR records are matched to Sunbiz corporate entities; managing-entity names are normalized so management companies can be counted across associations.
4. History. Records are never hard-deleted. When a record leaves a source extract, it is marked expired with the date; changes are versioned so past states remain queryable.

Record counts

The current build contains 24,567 associations representing 1,634,131 units across 57 Florida counties, as of August 2026. Per-county counts are on the state hub; the breakdown by type is in the statistics report.

Known limitations

• HOA coverage is partial by design of the sources. Florida does not maintain a single mandatory HOA registry the way DBPR registers condominiums; homeowners’ associations enter this database through corporate-registry classification and are being added in verified batches. Statewide association totals should be read as a floor.
• Unit counts are as-filed. DBPR unit counts reflect filings, not occupancy, and a small number of records carry missing or stale unit counts.
• Managing entities are self-reported. The managing entity of record can lag a management change; normalization can occasionally merge or split firms with very similar names.
• County assignment follows the source record. A handful of associations file with a mailing county that differs from the property county.

Corrections

If you represent an association or management company and find an error, write to us via the contact address with the record link; we verify against the primary source and correct in the next release, and corrections are noted in the run log.