Census-designated place · Pinellas County, Florida

Bay Pines, Florida

Bay Pines is a census-designated place in Pinellas County, Florida, part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area. It has 2,519 residents. Bay Pines, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 58 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,570 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #223 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on new business applications (high), unemployment rate (low) and distance to an airport (low). It ranks worst on rent as share of income (high), rent-burdened households (high) and drought exposure (high).

58Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,570 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #223 of 780 in FL
Population: 2,519 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,941.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 1204200

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety36#9,971/15,637
Economy70#4,675/15,631
Housing7#13,913/14,977
Health64#5,676/15,609
Healthcare52#7,495/15,650
Environment51#7,487/15,453
Education58#6,588/15,649
Infrastructure62#5,941/15,650
Community63#5,812/15,651
Leisure & amenities94#860/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bay Pines, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pinellas County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

New business applications · high40.4 /1k
99/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauPinellas County value
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Florida 3.9%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Distance to an airport · low8 mi
96/100Florida 21 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauPinellas County value
Comfortable days · high35.8%
95/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPinellas County value
Distance to an emergency room · low2.9 mi
93/100Florida 4.8 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPinellas County value
Pharmacies · high2.7 /10k
93/100Florida 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPinellas County value

Weaknesses

Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Rent-burdened households · high60.0%
4/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Drought exposure · high92%
5/100Florida 78%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAPinellas County value
Injury deaths · high132 /100k
8/100Florida 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePinellas County value
Hot days · high100 days
10/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPinellas County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Florida 16.3United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationPinellas County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
3,238 (2015-2019) → 2,519 (2020-2024)
−22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.2% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+27 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
45.9% (2015-2019) → 60.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
7.5% (2015-2019) → 16.6% (2020-2024)
+9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.2% (2015-2019) → 93.3% (2020-2024)
+9.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
11.9% (2015-2019) → 6.0% (2020-2024)
−5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bay Pines, Florida improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Rent / income+27 points24.2% → 51.0%
Uninsured+9.2 points7.5% → 16.6%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Bay Pines, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.0 min2015-2019	30.9 min2020-2024	+3.9 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.9%2015-2019	27.6%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Broadband subscriptions	84.2%2015-2019	93.3%2020-2024	+9.1 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Effective property tax rate	0.81%2015-2019	0.56%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	67%
High school diploma or higher	91.6%2015-2019	96.8%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Home price to income ratio	3.6×2015-2019	4.2×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	42%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4552015-2019	0.3962020-2024	−0.058	Within the margin of error	87%
Median household income	$55,7412015-2019	$68,2142020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	38%
Poverty rate	10.8%2015-2019	11.5%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.2%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+27 points	Declined	1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.5%2015-2019	16.6%2020-2024	+9.2 points	Declined	4%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bay Pines, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bay Pines, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Bay Pines, Florida itself moved −2.9 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,519 residents (±444)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,292 households (±253)

Bay Pines, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k11%†147
$25k–50k19%†244
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,292 households (±253)

Bay Pines, Florida
Florida share

Own87%1,120
Rent13%†172

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,167 workers (±278)

Bay Pines, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone70%†818
Carpool9.3%†108
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Pinellas County, the county holding most of Bay Pines's residents.

Pinellas County has 32,509 employer establishments, 337 for every 10,000 residents (1.36× the US rate of 248; 1.20× Florida's), with 425,004 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,991. The Census Bureau also counts 111,471 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 32,509; 111,471 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 337; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 425,004
Average annual pay: $59,991; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Pinellas County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	3,218	33.3	1.60×More than typical	33,049	$74,978	6,165
Lessors of real estate	2,221	23	1.87×More than typical	7,144	$55,380	14,129
Restaurants and other eating places	2,024	21	1.14×About typical	39,903	$24,255	489
Specialty trade contractors	1,874	19.4	1.25×More than typical	18,020	$61,451	5,179
Management, scientific and technical consulting	1,626	16.8	2.51×More than typical	9,706	$83,216	4,997
Offices of physicians	1,143	11.8	1.83×More than typical	11,667	$106,872	1,143
Services to buildings and dwellings	1,073	11.1	1.65×More than typical	5,783	$36,089	7,086
Real estate agents and brokers	1,056	10.9	2.25×More than typical	1,678	$57,271	4,322
Offices of other health practitioners	966	10	1.65×More than typical	4,144	$45,838	2,577
Full-service restaurants	933	9.7	1.26×More than typical	23,049	$27,410	227
Legal services	917	9.5	1.77×More than typical	4,460	$89,638	937
Limited-service restaurants	826	8.6	1.07×About typical	13,883	$19,891	159

Rank places for an industry Open Pinellas County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 965,743 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $94.1M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bay Pines, Florida: $37,341 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $94.1M; +41% vs FY2025
Per resident: $37,341; US $1,994
Sole-source: 10%; US 30%
Single offer: 12%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$93.2M99%
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$743.7K0.8%
Department of the Army$103.2K0.1%
Federal Acquisition Service$33.3K0.0%

Top recipients

SIGO VALIANT JV LLC$27.6M29%
THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC$7.1M7.6%
FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.$5M5.3%
SKYLINE ELEVATOR WORKS, INC$4.6M4.9%
US VETERAN CONSTRUCTION & CONSULTING GROUP LLC$4.1M4.4%

Spending by fiscal year

345.2MFY2017
341.1MFY2018
356.6MFY2019
357.8MFY2020
160.4MFY2021
88.8MFY2022
102MFY2023
87.2M

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$39.1M42%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$13.9M15%
Facilities support services · 5612$4.9M5.2%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$4.8M5.1%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$4.5M4.8%
Other transit and ground passenger transportation · 4859

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Bay Pines, Florida

ENTERPRISE TESTING SERVICE SUPPORT SERVICES$162.4M
PLANNED SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC· Pinellas County, FL· IT & telecom· Apr 6, 2020 – Feb 26, 2026· 36C10B20F0076
RENOVATION OF BUILDING ONE$54.3M
ECRMJV LLC· Pinellas County, FL· Construction & real property· Jul 28, 2021 – Aug 28, 2026· 36C10F21C0011
THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE ALL TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR, SUPERVISION, PERSONNEL, AND SHALL DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY THAT WILL RESULT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EHRM INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.$27.6M
SIGO VALIANT JV LLC· Pinellas County, FL· Construction & real property· Jan 6, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026· 36C77626C0019

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bay Pines, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Bay Pines, Florida's figures are part of those of Pinellas County, FL ($777.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 12% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bay Pines is mostly in Pinellas County.

See federal money in Pinellas County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bay Pines, Florida is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Pinellas County71100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL64

Other cities and towns in Pinellas County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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