Understand Pinellas Park before you commit to an address
Pinellas Park is fifty-four thousand people in the middle of the Pinellas peninsula, a working city of small houses, mobile home parks and industrial land that grew up along Park Boulevard and US-19. Its typical home value of $303,946 is the second-lowest of these twenty-four, above South Pasadena. Figures are the same two indexes measured the same way in all 24 municipalities here, on Florida's rules including the homestead exemption. It is inland and out of the storm-surge zone that reshaped the rest of this market in 2024.
The cost of living in Pinellas Park, and what a home costs
Two calculators on Florida's own rules: monthly compounding and the month private mortgage insurance stops, and the closing costs this state actually charges.
Rent or buy in Pinellas Park
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. With twenty-three of twenty-four municipalities down last year, appreciation is the input worth arguing with.
Mortgage calculator
Monthly compounding, the 30-year fixed loan, the private mortgage insurance a low down payment triggers, and Florida's documentary stamp and intangible taxes on the loan itself.
Then work out whether Pinellas Park is the right part of the bay
No neighborhood guides for Pinellas Park yet. What is here instead is both sides of the bay on one comparable footing.
All 24 municipalities in Tampa Bay
Every municipality across Hillsborough and Pinellas side by side on home value, millage, the rate a homesteaded buyer pays, and what storm surge did to it.
Compare the bayTampa, neighborhood by neighborhood
One of the two municipalities here with sourced guides rather than a single row of figures, including how high above the bay each part sits and what that is worth on a quote.
Explore TampaSt. Petersburg, area by area
The other municipality here with a hub of its own: the same row of figures as this table, the five areas the city divides into, and neighborhood guides on the peninsula where Helene's surge was the largest on record.
Explore St. PetersburgMiami and Miami-Dade
The same rules, the same exemptions and the same two Zillow indexes, and against every expectation, higher insurance premiums than Tampa Bay on a coast that has taken less surge.
Compare the two coastsWhat buying in Pinellas Park actually involves
The city's total of 19.1172 mills is high (sixth-highest in this layer) but on a value this low the effective rate of 1.65% produces a bill of only about $5,000 a year, the third-cheapest here. That is the recurring lesson of these tables: the rate and the bill rank differently, and the bill is what arrives.
Being mid-peninsula and inland is the other half of the value. The 2024 surge did not reach here, so flood exposure is rainfall and drainage rather than storm surge, and the insurance is materially cheaper than anything on the coast. What you give up is any water frontage and a good deal of amenity; what you get is one of the two most attainable houses in Pinellas County, behind South Pasadena.
A large share of the housing here is manufactured or mobile, in communities where the land may be rented rather than owned. That is a different purchase in every respect: the financing is not a conventional mortgage, the insurance is a different product, the lot rent can rise, and resale depends on the community as much as on the home. It is also the reason the city's typical value sits lowest in this layer.
The city has a substantial industrial and commercial base along US-19 and Park Boulevard, including the Gateway area at the eastern edge, which is one of the few genuine employment concentrations in mid-county. That supports the tax base and it also means the arterial roads carry commercial traffic all day, which is a real consideration for an address on one of them.
Moving to Pinellas Park: check these before you commit
- Drainage and rainfall flooding, which mid-county Pinellas does have even without surge.
- Roof age and construction on the older stock, which decides the insurance.
- Whether the property is in a mobile home or manufactured housing community, which is a different financing and insurance question entirely.
- For manufactured housing, whether the land is owned or rented, and what the lot rent has done over five years.
- Distance from US-19 and Park Boulevard, which carry the city's commercial traffic.
Pinellas Park's own council sets 5.6500 of the 19.1172 mills charged here. The rest is Pinellas County, the school board and the countywide special districts, and the 19.1172 is the total Pinellas County publishes for this taxing district rather than a figure assembled on this site.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Pinellas Park figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Pinellas Park figures come from
- Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, mid-tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value for each municipality, computed on one method across all twenty-four, The same series and month the Charlotte, Orlando, Palm Beach and Miami pages use, Year-over-year change to June 2026, which is negative in twenty-three of the twenty-four
- Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), all homes, smoothed: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: Asking rents for the seventeen municipalities Zillow indexes
- Final 2025 millage rates by taxing district · Hillsborough County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: Published totals of 19.8428 for Tampa, 19.5319 for Temple Terrace, 18.2926 for Plant City and 18.2515 for the unincorporated county, Every component behind them, including the 0.5583 library services levy Temple Terrace and Plant City are outside and the 0.5000 transit authority levy Plant City is outside, A county General Purpose MSTU of 4.6163 paid in the unincorporated area in place of a municipal rate
- Millage rates levied for 2025 taxes · Pinellas County Tax Collector · retrieved Supports: A published real estate total for every taxing district in Pinellas County, from Redington Shores at 15.1568 to Belleair at 20.4449, including St Petersburg at 19.9197 and Belleair Beach at 15.4466, Countywide components: general fund 4.5423, health department 0.0713, emergency medical services 0.8050 and school 6.2930, Other districts totalling 1.0256: planning council 0.0175, Juvenile Welfare Board 0.8250 and the Southwest Florida Water Management District 0.1831, The Transit District at 0.7300 and which districts are inside it, and the Pinellas Suncoast Fire District at 0.6700 and which are inside that
- Table 1: Comparison of Taxes Levied, county and municipal governments, fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26 · Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · retrieved Supports: Independent confirmation of each municipality's own adopted 2025-26 levy in both counties
- Documentary stamp tax · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: 70 cents per $100 on a deed, in every county except Miami-Dade, which charges 60 cents plus a 45-cent surtax, 35 cents per $100 on a promissory note or other written obligation to pay money