Counties / Florida / Hillsborough County

Hillsborough County, FL

FIPS 12057 · population 1,522,748 · part of Tampa, FL

$380k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
Direct county rent answer

What does rent cost in Hillsborough County, FL?

The latest county-level Zillow ZORI is $2,025 per month in 2026-06. It is a typical asking-rent index across rental types—not an arithmetic average, signed lease or quote for one property.

County Zillow ZORI$2,0252026-06 · down 1.2% year over year
County ACS gross rent$1,667ACS 2024 5-year · occupied-renter survey
HUD two-bedroom FMR$1,977FY2026 · administrative standard
HUD Fair Market Rent by bedroom count in Hillsborough County
BedroomsHUD monthly FMRGeographyMeasurement boundary
Studio$1,593Hillsborough County, FLHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
1 bedroom$1,696Hillsborough County, FLHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
2 bedrooms$1,977Hillsborough County, FLHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
3 bedrooms$2,527Hillsborough County, FLHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
4 bedrooms$3,077Hillsborough County, FLHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.

Zillow asking rent, ACS gross rent and HUD FMR describe different housing universes. They remain separate and no metro, city or neighboring-county value replaces missing county evidence.Zillow pulled 2026-07-26 · HUD pulled 2026-07-26

The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$380k
▼ 2.6% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$2,025
▼ 1.2% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
6.4%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,977
market rent is 1.02x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

The annual signals disagree
FHFA five-year cumulative+63.3%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−2.6%FHFA HPI2025+1.7%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-08-02.
Owner-reported value$372k
Surveyed gross rent$1,667
Rent burden 30%+57.9%
Median year built1991
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
7.5%vacant
630,692estimated housing units
Occupied tenure38.5% renter
owner 61.5%renter 38.5%
Structure mix64.5% single-family
Single-family 64.5%20+ units 11.0%Mobile home 6.5%Other 18.1%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs795,353▲ 0.7% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments57,358annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,500▲ 3.7% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities20.7% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+0.7%WEEKLY WAGE+3.7%Trade, transportation, and utilities20.7%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-08-02. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

Resident income

How local income has compounded

BEA per-capita personal income divides all personal income by the county population. It is broader than wages, but it is not household income or a measure of what renters can afford.

Per-capita personal income19692024
Per-capita personal income history for Hillsborough CountyA line chart of annual BEA per-capita personal income from 1969 through 2024.$0k$35k$70k196919972024$3k$68k
Nominal annual dollars; not adjusted for inflation. A rising line can reflect wage, business-income, transfer-income and investment-income changes together.
Renter affordability

Who carries the heaviest rent burden

HUD CHAS separates renter households by income relative to local HAMFI. Moderate burden means housing costs above 30% through 50% of income; severe burden means more than 50%.

Share of renter households in each income band2018-2022
Renter cost burden by HAMFI income band in Hillsborough CountyFive horizontal bars show moderate and severe housing cost burden shares among renter households in each HUD income band.0%25%50%75%100%At or below 30% HAMFI42,37075.7% burdened30–50% HAMFI33,01588.6% burdened50–80% HAMFI46,55568.6% burdened80–100% HAMFI24,42037.4% burdenedAbove 100% HAMFI75,0759.7% burdened
Moderate: >30% to 50%Severe: >50%
Each percentage uses HUD’s published subtotal for that income band. For disclosure, HUD keeps 0 as 0, publishes 1–7 households as 4 and rounds 8 or more to the nearest 5. Independently rounded categories can differ from their displayed sum and are not forced into a percentage.
Direct local rental evidence

Recent leases and rental-market liquidity in Hillsborough County, FL

These Apartment List observations match the exact county Census code 12057. They are kept separate from Zillow asking rent, Census occupied-home rent and wider metro measures.

Direct recent-lease rent history

Monthly overall-rent index; missing observations are not filled from another geography.

$1,665$1,579$1,4932021-082026-07
Recent-lease rent$1,5082026-07 · -3.5% year over year
Rental vacancy8.4%2026-07 · +1.2 percentage points year over year
Time on market28 days2026-07 · +1.4 days year over year
County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Hillsborough’s county file presents a current-price-versus-index tension rather than a clean direction. In Zillow’s county observation for 2026-06, the median home value fell 2.56% year over year; FHFA’s 2025 annual repeat-transaction HPI rose 1.66%. These are different vintages and methods and cannot be blended. The relevant investigation is whether a property’s current income can support carrying costs; the record is less supportive of a thesis that treats either measure alone as a sale-price trend.

02Housing economics

The Zillow median value is $380,041, while published median asking rent is $2,025 per month and stated gross yield is 6.39% before costs. This is measured market asking rent, not HUD rent. HUD’s two-bedroom FMR is a payment standard, not an estimate of asking rent or a substitute for the yield calculation. The effective property-tax rate is 0.81%; insurance, financing, HOA fees, maintenance, vacancy and property-specific assessments are not published, preventing a net-yield conclusion.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s MLS snapshot for 2026-06 shows 6,037 active listings, down 10.58% year over year, while its median listing price fell 4.55%. Marketing evidence is mixed: median days on market were 63, 26.86% of listings had reductions, and the pending-to-active ratio was 39.29%. These are asking-price, visible-supply and marketing measures—not closed sales or standalone proof of buyer demand. Tax-return migration was modestly positive, with higher average AGI among in-movers than out-movers. The reported 7.59% investor share is calculated against total purchases, but its definition is limited to non-occupant purchase mortgages and does not establish cash-buyer competition.

04Risk & next checks

Hurricane is the dominant hazard, and modeled climate loss equals 0.17% of building value per year; this is a modeled loss ratio, not a property insurance quote. QCEW’s 2025 annual workplace-based covered employment grew 0.75%, while average weekly covered-worker wages grew 3.66%. Trade, transportation, and utilities is the largest disclosed private supersector, not the whole county economy; QCEW is neither resident employment nor unemployment. Neighborhood-level insurance quotes, flood-zone and elevation data, building condition, lease renewals, vacancy, closed-sale comparables and debt terms are not published, preventing net-operating, hazard-cost and exit-value underwriting.

County ZIP rental landscape

How asking rent and renter pressure vary inside Hillsborough County, FL

This view uses 12 direct Zillow ZIP markets matched to Census ZCTAs. Each ZIP is assigned by its largest HUD residential county share; this is not an exhaustive county inventory.

Selected ZIP range$1,464$2,679Zillow asking-rent index
Monthly spread$1,215highest minus lowest selected ZIP
Observed burden range44.0%68.3%ACS renter households paying 30%+
Renter households covered116,225across the selected ZCTAs
01 · ASKING RENT LADDERDirect ZIP ZORI
Horizontal bars compare Zillow asking-rent indexes across the selected direct-evidence ZIP set.33602$2,67933611$2,48033607$2,29133578$1,98533647$1,86233610$1,84433617$1,71833615$1,65433511$1,63033612$1,54533614$1,51833613$1,464
02 · PRESSURE MATRIXRent × observed burden
Each point is one selected ZIP and ZCTA match. Horizontal position is Zillow asking rent and vertical position is the ACS renter cost-burden share.70.8%63.5%56.2%48.8%41.5%336123361733613336143364733511335783360233611336103361533607Zillow asking-rent index →ACS burden share →
03 · BENCHMARK GAPZORI vs HUD 2BR
Bars show the percentage difference between the Zillow blended asking-rent index and the local HUD two-bedroom standard. Their housing universes differ.33610+106.6%33611+99.6%33607+94.3%33602+90.2%33612+88.3%33578+86.7%33617+85.5%33613+81.8%33647+74.2%33614+73.7%33615+72.2%33511+69.1%
WHAT THE LOCAL DISTRIBUTION SAYS

Within the selected direct-evidence set, Zillow’s June 2026 ZORI—a typical observed asking-rent index—runs from $1,464 in ZIP 33613 to $2,679 in ZIP 33602. The selected-set median is $1,781, leaving a $1,215 spread that makes ZIP-level screening more useful than a single local figure. Hillsborough County’s ZORI is $2,025, down 1.2% year over year, but the selection is not a countywide distribution. The practical question is whether a household’s budget can accommodate the current asking-rent signal and the terms of a specific available unit, not which ZIP label appears lowest or highest.

ACS 2024 five-year ZCTA data form a separate survey-based evidence universe: estimated median gross rent ranges from $1,298 to $2,270 in the displayed areas, against a county estimate of $1,667. Those estimates are not current ZORI asking rents and should not be substituted for them. HUD’s FY 2026 two-bedroom Fair Market Rent standard is another separate measure, spanning $1,730 to $2,970 across the selection, versus $1,977 countywide. The ZIP-level ZORI-to-HUD comparison ranges from 69.1% in ZIP 33511 to 106.6% in ZIP 33610. That ratio signals different positions relative to an administrative benchmark; it is not a blended rent, negotiated lease price, or quality ranking because HUD is bedroom-specific while ZORI is a typical asking-rent index.

Affordability pressure is broad in the ACS survey estimates rather than concentrated at one end of the observed-rent range. The share of renter households spending 30% or more of income on rent spans 44.0% to 68.3%, with a county estimate of 57.9%. This is a survey burden measure, not a calculation from the current ZORI index, so it should inform budget risk without being treated as a current lease quote. ACS vacancy estimates range from 4.1% to 11.5% across displayed ZCTAs. Vacancy and burden do not form a simple trade-off here: a higher survey vacancy estimate does not establish current unit availability, lower rent, or lower household burden. Renters should use the indicators separately—one about survey housing status and the other about renter budget strain.

The display includes 12 ZIP/ZCTA matches from 43 eligible matches, covering 116,225 renter households under the selection rule; it is intentionally not a complete county inventory. Each displayed ZIP is assigned to Hillsborough County by the largest HUD residential-address share, which is 100% for this set, but ZIPs can cross county lines. Census ZCTAs are statistical geographies, not identical to USPS delivery ZIPs, so ACS and ZIP-market observations do not have exact boundaries. Before acting, confirm the property’s current advertised rent, bedroom count, lease term, availability date, deposits, recurring fees, utilities, income or program eligibility rules, and precise address; compare those unit facts separately with the applicable HUD standard and ZIP-level ZORI signal.

Selected ZIP evidence

Keep each source universe visible

43 ZIP profiles passed the county gate; the 12 with the most renter households are shown.

ZIP / ZCTAZillow asking rentACS gross rentHUD 2BRBurden 30%+VacancyIncome screenHUD county share
33612$1,545$1,352$1,75062.4%11.5%$62k100.0%
33617$1,718$1,431$2,01064.3%8.1%$69k100.0%
33613$1,464$1,298$1,79068.3%10.2%$59k100.0%
33614$1,518$1,458$2,06060.9%8.5%$61k100.0%
33647$1,862$1,904$2,51053.5%4.1%$74k100.0%
33511$1,630$1,801$2,36056.3%6.6%$65k100.0%
33578$1,985$1,829$2,29058.0%8.7%$79k100.0%
33602$2,679$2,270$2,97044.0%8.5%$107k100.0%
33611$2,480$1,778$2,49051.7%6.7%$99k100.0%
33610$1,844$1,384$1,73057.1%7.9%$74k100.0%
33615$1,654$1,656$2,29048.3%8.8%$66k100.0%
33607$2,291$1,927$2,43053.9%11.2%$92k100.0%
READ BEFORE USING

Census ACS values are 2024 five-year estimates reported for ZCTAs; they are not current transaction or listing observations, and ZCTAs do not precisely match USPS delivery ZIP boundaries.

Zillow ZORI, HUD FMR, and ACS rent measures have different construction, timing, and intended use. ZIP assignment follows the largest HUD residential-address share, and the selected set is not an exhaustive inventory of county ZIPs.

SOURCE LEDGERCensus ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stockACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and incomeACS 2024 5-year ZCTA · pulled 2026-08-08HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standardFY2026 FMR · pulled 2026-07-26HUD-USPS ZIP-to-county residential-address crosswalkHUD-USPS 2026Q1 · pulled 2026-08-09Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rentscounty ZHVI/ZORI 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-26Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rentsZORI ZIP 2026-06 · pulled 2026-08-08
Cities & communities

Where people live within Hillsborough County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Tampa city401.6KBrandon CDP119.8KRiverview CDP113.7KTown 'n' Country CDP85.9KUniversity CDP (Hillsboro…48.1KPlant City city40.9KValrico CDP40.2KCarrollwood CDP36.7K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

33 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Tampa cityIncorporated place
    401,618
  2. 02
    Brandon CDPCensus-designated place
    119,767
  3. 03
    Riverview CDPCensus-designated place
    113,697
  4. 04
    Town 'n' Country CDPCensus-designated place
    85,928
  5. 05
    University CDP (Hillsborough County)Census place
    48,127
  6. 06
    Plant City cityIncorporated place
    40,887
  7. 07
    Valrico CDPCensus-designated place
    40,239
  8. 08
    Carrollwood CDPCensus-designated place
    36,725
  9. 09
    Egypt Lake-Leto CDPCensus-designated place
    35,873
  10. 10
    Sun City Center CDPCensus-designated place
    33,548
  11. 11
    Apollo Beach CDPCensus-designated place
    33,355
  12. 12
    Lake Magdalene CDPCensus-designated place
    32,083
Show 21 more places
  1. 13
    Ruskin CDPCensus-designated place
    29,834
  2. 14
    East Lake-Orient Park CDPCensus-designated place
    29,213
  3. 15
    Citrus Park CDPCensus-designated place
    28,804
  4. 16
    Palm River-Clair Mel CDPCensus-designated place
    27,844
  5. 17
    Temple Terrace cityIncorporated place
    27,275
  6. 18
    Lutz CDPCensus-designated place
    27,106
  7. 19
    Fish Hawk CDPCensus-designated place
    26,186
  8. 20
    Keystone CDPCensus-designated place
    25,858
  9. 21
    Northdale CDPCensus-designated place
    25,710
  10. 22
    Westchase CDPCensus-designated place
    24,885
  11. 23
    Bloomingdale CDPCensus-designated place
    23,827
  12. 24
    Gibsonton CDPCensus-designated place
    18,754
  13. 25
    Thonotosassa CDPCensus-designated place
    15,764
  14. 26
    Wimauma CDPCensus-designated place
    15,266
  15. 27
    Cheval CDPCensus-designated place
    13,969
  16. 28
    Mango CDPCensus-designated place
    13,242
  17. 29
    Progress Village CDPCensus-designated place
    10,450
  18. 30
    Pebble Creek CDPCensus-designated place
    10,447
  19. 31
    Seffner CDPCensus-designated place
    8,885
  20. 32
    Balm CDPCensus-designated place
    7,181
  21. 33
    Dover CDPCensus-designated place
    3,009

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardhurricane

0.168% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.81%

$3,010 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+387

48,852 in · 48,465 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$5,670

$78,127 arriving · $72,457 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors7.6%

1,356 of 17,858 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings6,037▼ 10.6% year over year
Median days on market63▼ 3.1% year over year
Listings price-reduced26.9%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 4.5% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Tampa, FL

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Hillsborough County1,522,748$380k$2,0256.4%hurricane
Pinellas County963,481$372k$2,0216.5%hurricane
Pasco County611,444$332k$2,0297.3%inland flooding
Hernando County207,018$311k$1,8487.1%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Different price measures and observation periods may produce conflicting conclusions about current value.
  2. Unpublished insurance, maintenance, vacancy and financing costs could materially change the gross-yield screen.
  3. County-level labor, migration and listing measures may conceal neighborhood-specific demand and hazard exposure.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Is the published rent a HUD payment standard?

No. The published rent is median market asking rent, while HUD Fair Market Rent is a two-bedroom payment standard.

Does the FHFA HPI provide a current dollar home value?

No. It is a repeat-transaction appreciation index and should not be treated as a home value.

What does QCEW employment represent in this record?

It represents annual average covered jobs located at workplaces in the county, not resident employment or unemployment.