Where Tampa’s New Housing Went, 2018–2025
Every residential unit built inside Tampa city limits since 2018, by year built, from the property appraiser’s parcel roll. Apartment projects as circles sized by units; houses, townhomes and condos as dots that merge when you zoom out.
Every residential unit the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser records as built inside Tampa city limits since 2018, placed on its parcel. Apartment projects of 10 or more units are one translucent circle each, sized by unit count. Houses, townhomes, condos and small multifamily are one dot per site; zoomed out, nearby sites merge into one circle sized by their combined units and colored by whichever type holds the most of them. Pick years in the panel, hover or click a circle for the count, and keep zooming in until the circles give way to the parcels themselves.
The counts are floors. The roll doesn’t record unit counts for tax-credit affordable, student housing or Live Local Act projects, so those appear as dashed rings. Year built is the appraiser’s “actual year built” for the first building on the parcel, so a phased complex is dated to the year its first phase finished. The counts are gross: nothing is subtracted for the house that was torn down to make room. Condo units are grouped by building.
Built for Tampa Is Building Faster Than the New Plan Projects. Data: HCPA bulk parcel extract, processed with a script in the Tampa Monitor toolshed. Part of the toolshed maps collection.