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Ponce de Leon

Town, Holmes County. Population 500 (2025), -2.2% on the prior year, -0.8% since 2020 Last updated 2026-10-04.

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Ponce de Leon

Boundary: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line, simplified for drawing. 4.96 square miles of land.

Population

2025
Population500Population, April 1, 1979 to 20251979598 high2025
Change since the prior year-2.2%2024 to 2025
Change since 2020-0.8%2020 to 2025
Census 20205042020

University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Florida Estimates of Population, retrieved 2026-10-01 | 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
2025500estimate-2.2%
2024511estimate+2.0%
2023501estimate+0.8%
2022497estimate-1.0%
2021502estimate-0.4%
2020504census-5.3%
2019532estimate-4.0%
2018554estimate-1.1%
2017560estimate+1.8%
2016550estimate-1.3%
2015557estimate+0.5%
2014554estimate-1.9%
2013565estimate+1.6%
2012556estimate-5.6%
2011589estimate-1.5%
2010598census+16.1%
2009515estimate+1.0%
2008510estimate+2.4%
2007498estimate+4.4%
2006477estimate0.0%
2005477estimate+2.6%
2004465estimate+1.8%
2003457estimate0.0%
2002457estimate-1.7%
2001465estimate+1.8%
2000457census-2.1%
1999467estimate-0.2%
1998468estimate+1.1%
1997463estimate-0.6%
1996466estimate+3.6%
1995450estimate+3.0%
1994437estimate+0.9%
1993433estimate+3.3%
1992419estimate+3.2%
1991406estimaten/a
1989494estimate+2.7%
1988481estimate-2.0%
1987491estimate+1.0%
1986486estimate-0.6%
1985489estimate-1.6%
1984497estimate+1.2%
1983491estimate+0.6%
1982488estimate+4.7%
1981466estimaten/a
1979495estimaten/a

Labor force (county figures)

Aug 2026

County figures, no city estimate published by FloridaCommerce

Unemployment rate (Holmes County)4.8%Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, Aug 2016 to Aug 2026Aug 20168.0% highAug 2026
Labor force (Holmes County)7,867Aug 2026
Employment (Holmes County)7,487Aug 2026
Unemployed (Holmes County)380Aug 2026
Rate a year earlier4.4%Aug 2025
Labor force, change on a year earlier-0.1%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 20267,8677,4873804.8%
Jul 20267,7997,4113885.0%
Jun 20267,8647,4863784.8%
May 20267,8767,5033734.7%
Apr 20267,8407,4473935.0%
Mar 20267,8237,4393844.9%
Feb 20267,7567,3424145.3%
Jan 20267,7107,2814295.6%
Dec 20257,7877,4203674.7%
Nov 20257,7987,3824165.3%
Sep 20257,8897,5413484.4%
Aug 20257,8747,5243504.4%
Jul 20257,8817,5323494.4%
Jun 20257,8967,5673294.2%
May 20257,8937,6072863.6%
Apr 20257,8767,6092673.4%
Mar 20257,8207,5282923.7%
Feb 20257,7317,4362953.8%
Jan 20257,7427,4283144.1%
Dec 20247,7797,5052743.5%
Nov 20247,8317,5243073.9%
Oct 20247,9087,6142943.7%
Sep 20247,9137,6103033.8%
Aug 20247,9397,6133264.1%
Jul 20247,9107,5873234.1%
Jun 20247,9067,6112953.7%
May 20247,8287,5952333.0%
Apr 20247,8047,5842202.8%
Mar 20247,8787,6282503.2%
Feb 20247,7717,5172543.3%
Jan 20247,7027,4412613.4%
Dec 20237,7177,4912262.9%
Nov 20237,7257,4842413.1%
Oct 20237,8197,5712483.2%
Sep 20237,9547,7072473.1%
Aug 20237,8897,6362533.2%

Annual averages

YearLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
20257,8357,5073284.2%
20247,8477,5692783.5%
20237,7877,5612262.9%
20227,5897,3702192.9%
20217,5027,2102923.9%
20207,3366,9463905.3%
20197,4717,2242473.3%
20187,4837,2092743.7%
20177,4857,1623234.3%
20167,3657,0043614.9%
20156,6856,2704156.2%
20146,8246,3294957.3%
20136,9746,4005748.2%
20127,1126,4616519.2%
20117,1756,45671910.0%

Business base

Aug 2026
Licensed food service, lodging and alcohol businesses12New licenses by month, Jul 2018 to Aug 2026Jul 20182 highAug 2026
Food service licenses4Aug 2026
Lodging licenses2Aug 2026
Alcoholic beverage licenses6Aug 2026
New licenses, last 12 months1Aug 2026

Florida DBPR active licensure base files: public food service, public lodging and retail alcoholic beverage licenses, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Licenses

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

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
2APSalcohol5
2014-MFDVfood4
2007-DWEL-SNGLlodging2
3DPSalcohol1

Property roll

2026 preliminary
Total just value$39.8K
Total taxable value (non school)$16.7K2026 preliminary
Total taxable value (school)$26.7K2026 preliminary
Just value, change on the prior roll+2.0%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Taxable value (non school), change on the prior roll+4.2%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Total just value, prior roll$39K2025 final roll
New construction value$02026 preliminary
Parcels12026 preliminary

Florida Department of Revenue, NAL tax roll (name, address, legal), 2026 preliminary and final as posted, retrieved 2026-10-03

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; 0% 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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Qualified sales, last 12 months0Jun 2025 to May 2026
Just value, residential$39K2026 preliminary
Just value, other$0.8K2026 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
Residential0$39K$15.9K$01+2.1%
Other1$0.8K$0.8K$0n/a0.0%

Housing

2020 to 2024 ACS
Housing units285Homeownership rate, 1990 to 2024199084.0% high2024
Occupied units2192020 to 2024 ACS
Vacant units662020 to 2024 ACS
Owner occupied households1612020-2024 5-Year
Renter occupied households582020-2024 5-Year
Homeownership rate73.5%2020 to 2024 ACS
Cost burdened households, all tenures (over 30% of income)18.4%2025
Cost burdened renter households10.0%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%)0.0%2025
Median single family sale price$212K2024

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 less1107
All households30.01-50% AMI773
All households50.01-80% AMI3730
All households80.01-120% AMI3160
All householdsGreater than 120% AMI10200
Renters30% AMI or less400
Renters30.01-50% AMI040
Renters50.01-80% AMI1200
Renters80.01-120% AMI000
RentersGreater than 120% AMI2000
Owners30% AMI or less707
Owners30.01-50% AMI733
Owners50.01-80% AMI2530
Owners80.01-120% AMI3160
OwnersGreater than 120% AMI8200

Single family sales by year

YearMedian priceSales
1996$36K14
1997$37K6
1998$16.5K6
1999$54.5K6
2000$45K14
2001$48K2
2002$25.5K7
2003$42.7K6
2004$49.9K13
2005$67K5
2006$86K1
2007$99.8K4
2008$97.5K4
2009$80K1
2010$57K1
2011$40K1
2012n/an/a
2013$28K3
2014$40K2
2015$85K3

Fiscal

Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, latest month$1.91KHalf-cent sales tax distributions by month, Oct 2016 to Sep 2026Oct 2016$2.51K highSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, fiscal year to date$15.8KFY2026 to Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, last 12 months$15.8KSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, change on the 12 months before-2.2%Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, latest month$1.75KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, fiscal year to date$22.5KFY2026 to Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, last 12 months$22.5KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, change on the 12 months before-0.6%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$1.67MFY2024
Revenues, change on the year before+12.4%FY2024
Total expenditures$1.88MFY2024
Expenditures, change on the year before+20.4%FY2024
Revenues per resident$3.27KFY2024
Long-term debt outstanding at year end$329KFY2025
Long-term debt, change on the year before-14.9%FY2025

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$1.91K
Aug 2026$1.0K
Jul 2026$1.08K
Jun 2026$1.55K
May 2026$1.5K
Apr 2026$1.38K
Mar 2026$1.33K
Feb 2026$1.17K
Jan 2026$1.04K
Dec 2025$1.17K
Nov 2025$1.46K
Oct 2025$1.19K
Sep 2025$1.68K
Aug 2025$1.23K
Jul 2025$1.52K
Jun 2025$1.3K
May 2025$1.51K
Apr 2025$1.06K
Mar 2025$1.31K
Feb 2025$1.12K
Jan 2025$1.27K
Dec 2024$1.6K
Nov 2024$1.28K
Oct 2024$1.22K
Sep 2024$1.49K
Aug 2024$1.28K
Jul 2024$1.43K
Jun 2024$1.53K
May 2024$1.46K
Apr 2024$1.13K
Mar 2024$1.42K
Feb 2024$1.35K
Jan 2024$1.15K
Dec 2023$1.41K
Nov 2023$1.14K
Oct 2023$1.44K

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$1.75K
Aug 2026$1.75K
Jul 2026$1.75K
Jun 2026$1.88K
May 2026$1.88K
Apr 2026$1.88K
Mar 2026$1.88K
Feb 2026$1.88K
Jan 2026$1.88K
Dec 2025$2K
Nov 2025$2K
Oct 2025$2K
Sep 2025$2.05K
Aug 2025$2.05K
Jul 2025$2.05K
Jun 2025$1.8K
May 2025$1.8K
Apr 2025$1.8K
Mar 2025$1.8K
Feb 2025$1.8K
Jan 2025$1.8K
Dec 2024$1.8K
Nov 2024$1.96K
Oct 2024$1.96K
Sep 2024$1.96K
Aug 2024$1.96K
Jul 2024$1.96K
Jun 2024$2.14K
May 2024$2.14K
Apr 2024$2.14K
Mar 2024$2.14K
Feb 2024$2.14K
Jan 2024$2.14K
Dec 2023$2.14K
Nov 2023$2.14K
Oct 2023$2.14K

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
FY2025$329K-14.9%
FY2024$386K-12.7%
FY2023$442K-10.8%
FY2022$496K-5.3%
FY2021$524K-7.7%
FY2020$568K-7.6%
FY2019$614K-4.0%
FY2018$640K-1.5%
FY2017$650K-4.4%
FY2016$680K-3.8%
FY2015$707K-3.9%
FY2014$736K-10.4%
FY2013$821Kn/a

Revenues by category, FY2024

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

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Taxes$38.4K$24K+60.3%
Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments$220K$206K+7.1%
Intergovernmental Revenues$525K$571K-8.1%
Charges for Services$664K$579K+14.8%
Miscellaneous Revenues$57.9K$37.1K+56.0%
Other Sources$163K$68.7K+137.4%
Taxesn/an/an/a
Intergovernmental Revenuen/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)$1.74M$1.49M+16.5%
Public Safety$113K$37.2K+203.3%
Transportation$17.4K$15.3K+14.0%
Culture / Recreation$13.8K$18.7K-26.3%
Physical Environmentn/an/an/a
Other Usesn/an/an/a
Other Uses and Non-Operatingn/an/an/a
Human Servicesn/an/an/a

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