County · Florida

Pasco County, Florida

Pasco County, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 52 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #1,496 of 3,143 US counties. Within Florida it ranks #30 of 67 counties. It ranks best on new homes permitted (high), comfortable days (high) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), rent-burdened households (high) and hot days (high).

52Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#1,496 of 3,143 counties
Florida
#30 of 67 in FL
Population
674,516 (2025)
Land area
747 mi²
Density
903.4 /mi²
FIPS code
12101

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 79 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Pasco County, Florida

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety64#1,099/3,096
  • Economy64#1,124/3,143
  • Housing8#2,879/3,140
  • Health65#1,104/3,144
  • Healthcare40#1,877/3,143
  • Environment53#1,459/3,108
  • Education70#945/3,144
  • Infrastructure68#1,013/3,144
  • Community42#1,819/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities40#1,886/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Pasco County, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Counties like Pasco County, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pasco County, 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area Pasco County belongs to. A county is in at most one.

Cities and towns in Pasco County

Places whose residents live mostly in Pasco County, largest first.

  1. Wesley Chapel76,011
  2. Land O' Lakes38,910
  3. Bayonet Point23,822
  4. Jasmine Estates23,571
  5. Holiday22,785
  6. Zephyrhills19,668
  7. Trinity18,907
  8. New Port Richey17,425
  9. Elfers15,006
  10. Pasadena Hills13,505
  11. Shady Hills11,983
  12. New Port Richey East11,939
  13. Hudson11,254
  14. Odessa8,381
  15. Dade City8,152
  16. Beacon Square7,895
  17. Connerton7,650
  18. Zephyrhills West5,980
  19. River Ridge5,149
  20. Zephyrhills South5,008
  21. Moon Lake4,638
  22. Meadow Oaks3,705
  23. Port Richey3,364
  24. Quail Ridge2,916

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

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