Rank

2130of 3,144

Hillsborough, Florida

Score 5.93 / 10· population 1,535,564

Hillsborough County, Florida, keeps its county offices in Tampa, on a bay that Hurricane Helene flooded in September 2024: water at Old Port Tampa rose 6.83 feet above the average high-tide mark, and the surge killed two people in the county. Government work is less common here than in the nation as a whole. In 2024, federal, state and local government held about 79,600 of the county's 789,400 jobs, near 10%, against 14.5% nationally.

Sources
  • Hillsborough County's government address is 601 E. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33602 hcfl.gov
  • During Hurricane Helene (September 2024), the NOS tide gauge at Old Port Tampa measured 6.83 ft above mean higher high water; surge inundation within Tampa Bay reached 5 to 7 ft above ground nhc.noaa.gov
  • Two storm-surge related fatalities from Hurricane Helene were reported in Hillsborough County nhc.noaa.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), Hillsborough County had 789,442 covered jobs, of which 79,624 were federal (16,998), state (14,248) or local (48,378) government, about 10.1% data.bls.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), government held 22,420,670 of 154,990,441 covered US jobs, about 14.5% data.bls.gov

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)7.6
  2. 2A (state)8.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President5.1
  4. Sales tax3.2
  5. Property tax5.8

Environment

  1. Air quality5.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate6.9
  2. Life expectancy7.8
  3. Government employees9.5
  4. Single-parent households2.7

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