Because the Division of Corporations registers business entities, not units of government. We plan to take counties, cities and special districts from official lists of local governments and from their own websites.
Florida industry export
The export covers county and municipal governments, special districts and other local governments registered in Florida, defined by NAICS 2022 (92). For scale: 1,947 local governments in Florida per the U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments; that is official statistics. Our Florida database is active, but per-industry record counts are still being compiled. Tell us the type of government (cities, special districts, school districts) and the department you want to reach, for example public works or purchasing.
92
NAICS 2022 codes
1,947
local governments in Florida (Census of Governments 2022)
on request
price for your selection
4,129,182
active business entities registered in Florida
Data as of October 15, 2026. Industry size: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments, local government units; not our dataset. Statewide figure for all industries: Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Yearly Statistics, as of July 8, 2026; not our dataset. NAICS titles: 92 Public Administration (U.S. Census Bureau).
The industry corresponds to NAICS sector 92, Public Administration: executive and legislative offices, public finance, courts, police and fire protection, administration of environmental, housing and economic programs.
This industry differs from the other 14 in its source. Units of government are not business entities: Florida's 67 counties, its municipalities, school districts and special districts are created under the constitution and the statutes cited below and are generally not found in the state corporate registry. A list of local governments therefore has to be built from official lists of local governments and from their own public websites.
Contact details of public offices are published by the governments themselves. Even so, governments buy under procurement rules; a list helps you find the right government and office, but it does not replace vendor registration or a bidding process.
Our expectation, which is an assumption and not a finding from data: Local governments generally publish office phone numbers and department email addresses on their websites, so we expect most records to carry a contact. The open question in this industry is how complete the list of governments will be, not whether contact details are available. Per-industry contact counts are still being compiled; once measured, they will replace this note.
We are looking for municipalities and special districts in Lake, Sumter and Marion counties with the general contact details of the public works or utilities department, to offer them pipe inspection services. School districts are not needed. Please state what you can deliver, the price and the as-of date of the data.
This is an example only, not a promise of a record count.
Official statistics
The business statistics shown on the other industry pages come from County Business Patterns and Nonemployer Statistics, which both exclude Public Administration (NAICS 92) entirely (CBP methodology, NES methodology). Local governments are not “establishments” in that sense. The Census Bureau counts governments separately: its 2022 Census of Governments reported 1,947 local governments in Florida, of which 66 were county governments, 412 municipal governments, 1,374 special district governments and 95 independent school district governments (U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments, Table 2). These counts follow the Census Bureau's own definitions, which is why they show 66 county governments for 67 counties and why they can differ from the state's own lists. The legal framework: the state “shall be divided by law into political subdivisions called counties,” and “each county shall constitute a school district” (Florida Constitution, Art. VIII § 1 and Art. IX § 4). None of these figures describes our own dataset.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2024 (methodology). Each row adds establishments with paid employees (County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 2017) and businesses without paid employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2024, NAICS 2022, which leaves out businesses with less than $1,000 in receipts except in construction). These are Census Bureau statistics, not counts from our dataset.
A county is “a political subdivision of the state established pursuant to s. 1, Art. VIII of the State Constitution” (Fla. Stat. § 165.031). The 67 counties are also the geographic filter for every other industry on this website.
Cities, towns and villages are municipalities “created pursuant to general or special law” (§ 165.031(3)). Chapter 165 governs their incorporation, merger and dissolution.
The statutes define a special district as “a unit of local government created for a special purpose, as opposed to a general purpose, which has jurisdiction to operate within a limited geographic boundary” (Fla. Stat. § 189.012); community development districts, fire control districts and drainage districts are examples. The same section defines dependent special districts, for example those whose governing body is identical to, or appointed by, the governing body of a single county or municipality, and independent special districts, which are all others. The state keeps an official list of special districts (Fla. Stat. § 189.061); the responsible department under Chapter 189 is the Department of Commerce.
Under the state constitution, each county constitutes a school district, with a school board chosen by the voters (Art. IX § 4). A school district is separate from the county government.
Florida's open government policy helps here: “all state, county, and municipal records are open for personal inspection and copying by any person” (Fla. Stat. § 119.01). A public record, however, is not consent to marketing.
Finding the bodies responsible for roads, water, drainage or parks in a region.
Identifying local governments of a certain type before a procurement cycle.
Mapping special districts as potential clients for studies and design work.
Direct mail to public bodies about events, training or publications.
File, region, price
One CSV, Excel or JSON file with 15 columns (layout and sample file), limited to the counties you name out of Florida's 67; the county is derived from the principal address.
FAQ
Because the Division of Corporations registers business entities, not units of government. We plan to take counties, cities and special districts from official lists of local governments and from their own websites.
The plan is to list governments and their official office contacts, not individuals.
Yes. This is where we plan to list them, as departments or separate public entities. Private utilities are in Utilities and Waste Services.
The statute defines it as “a local unit of special-purpose government” created under Chapter 190 of the Florida Statutes (Fla. Stat. § 190.003). Community development districts are therefore units of government; the homeowners' associations inside them are private nonprofit corporations.
No. A homeowners’ or condominium association is a private corporation, usually nonprofit, registered with the Division of Corporations. It belongs to the real estate industry on this website.
The size of the industry in Florida is 1,947 local governments in Florida per the U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments (source); that is the official market scale, not a count of our delivered records. Our per-industry record count is still being compiled; contact us for the current count for Local Government and Public Institutions. For orientation: Active business entities registered with the Florida Division of Corporations (corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and trusts) – 4,129,182 as of July 8, 2026 (Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Yearly Statistics). That figure covers all industries and counts registered entities whether or not they operate. The Census figures on this page give a sense of scale for Local Government and Public Institutions.
Federal law does not require prior consent for commercial email to businesses, but every message must comply with the CAN-SPAM Act (FTC compliance guide); sales calls and texts are restricted more tightly by federal rules and by Fla. Stat. § 501.059. An export contains no consent. Our data is not screened against any do-not-call list, including the National Do Not Call Registry and the Florida Do Not Call list. How Fla. Stat. § 501.059(4) applies to business records that include phone numbers is a question for an attorney, and no Florida dataset with phone numbers will be released until that question is resolved. The compliance of a campaign is your responsibility. The rules are explained in Cold outreach rules in Florida; this is not legal advice.
From public sources: corporate filings of the Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), the license and registration records named on this page and the companies' own websites (sources and methodology). The file is a UTF-8 CSV or, on request, XLSX or JSON; a sample with fictitious businesses shows the 15 columns.
Name the type of government and the counties. We will reply with what we can deliver, the price and the as-of date of the data.