Tampa, Florida Demographics Guide

The Tampa population history guide is the deep guide in this section, and the table below pairs each common Tampa population question with its headline figure and where it is answered.

The Tampa population history guide follows the city count from its first census entries through 2020, including the decades when annexation changed the size of Tampa itself. This hub covers the present: age, origin, language, households and homes inside Tampa city limits, each figure placed beside the Hillsborough County figure from the same release so the comparison is like for like.

Tampa counted 384,959 residents at the 2020 Census, and the state estimate for April 1, 2025 is 412,684, a gain of 27,725 people in five years.

The 2020 figure is the official decennial count for Tampa city (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census). Ten years earlier the 2010 Census had found 335,709 people in Tampa (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census), so the city added 49,250 residents across the decade, roughly 14.7 percent.

Growth has continued since. The April 1, 2025 table from the Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research lists Tampa at 412,684, Plant City at 45,331, Temple Terrace at 27,698 and Hillsborough County at 1,575,637 (Florida EDR). The same table shows 1,089,924 people in unincorporated Hillsborough County, which means about 69 percent of county residents live outside any city and about 26 percent live in Tampa. The county as a whole gained 115,875 people after the 2020 Census.

The ACS 2020-2024 5-year total for Tampa is 401,618 (ACS DP05). It sits between the census count and the state estimate because it averages five years of survey responses. For a single headcount the Census Bureau recommends the 2020 Census or its Population Estimates Program (Census Bureau, Comparing ACS Data), so this hub quotes 384,959 and 412,684 as the Tampa totals and uses the ACS only for shares, medians and rates.

Half of Tampa residents are 35.9 or younger in ACS 2020-2024, two years below the Hillsborough County median age of 37.9 in the same release.

Children under 18 make up 19.4 percent of Tampa and adults 65 and over make up 13.7 percent (ACS DP05, Tampa). Across Hillsborough County the shares are 21.6 percent under 18 and 15.0 percent 65 and over (ACS DP05, Hillsborough County). Tampa therefore has proportionally fewer children and fewer retirees than the county around it, and a larger share of working-age adults.

Education levels point the same way. Among Tampa adults 25 and over, 45.7 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher, against 38.1 percent in Hillsborough County (ACS DP02, Tampa, ACS DP02, county). Tampa households are also smaller, averaging 2.31 people against 2.56 countywide.

Military service is a smaller part of the Tampa population than of the county as a whole: civilian veterans are 6.1 percent of Tampa adults 18 and over, against 7.3 percent across Hillsborough County (ACS DP02, Tampa, ACS DP02, county). Among Tampa residents 16 and over, 66.9 percent are in the labor force (ACS DP03), above the Hillsborough County share of 65.7 percent (ACS DP03, county).

About one Tampa resident in four (26.2 percent) is Hispanic or Latino in ACS 2020-2024, slightly below the 30.4 percent share for Hillsborough County.

Tampa's Hispanic population is led by Cuban origin at 7.7 percent of all residents, followed by Puerto Rican origin at 6.2 percent and Mexican origin at 3.0 percent (ACS DP05). Non-Hispanic White residents make up 44.3 percent of Tampa, non-Hispanic Black residents 19.5 percent and non-Hispanic Asian residents 4.7 percent. The county Hispanic share of 30.4 percent comes from the same release (ACS DP05, county).

Some 19.4 percent of Tampa residents were born outside the United States, close to the county figure of 19.7 percent, and 63.7 percent of Tampa's foreign-born residents were born in Latin America (ACS DP02). Another 35.7 percent of Tampa residents were born in a different U.S. state.

At home, 28.3 percent of Tampa residents aged 5 and over speak a language other than English, and 19.9 percent speak Spanish (ACS DP02). The Hillsborough County Spanish share is higher, at 23.0 percent (ACS DP02, county).

Tampa is close to an even split between owners and renters, with 49.7 percent of occupied homes rented in ACS 2020-2024, while Hillsborough County homes are 61.5 percent owner occupied.

The city has 166,278 households (ACS DP02). Tampa's median owner-occupied home value is $420,400 and its median gross rent is $1,701 a month (ACS DP04, Tampa). Buildings with 20 or more units hold 21.4 percent of Tampa housing units, about double the Hillsborough County share of 11.0 percent (ACS DP04, county), and 8.4 percent of Tampa homes were built in 1939 or earlier.

Most Tampa homes were built before 2010. Of the 182,425 housing units counted in Tampa, 2.9 percent were built in 2020 or later and 15.0 percent between 2010 and 2019 (ACS DP04). About 8.9 percent of Tampa housing units were vacant at the time of the survey, a figure that includes seasonal homes and units between tenants, and the Tampa rental vacancy rate was 5.8 percent.

The median Tampa household income is $75,475, below the Hillsborough County median of $79,540 (ACS DP03, Tampa, ACS DP03, county). The share of Tampa residents below the poverty level is 15.5 percent, against 12.7 percent countywide. Tampa residents also move often: 20.2 percent of people aged 1 and over lived in a different house a year earlier (ACS DP02), and 22.0 percent of Tampa workers worked from home (ACS DP03).

For a Tampa headcount the 2020 Census count of 384,959 or the April 1, 2025 state estimate of 412,684 is the figure to quote, while the ACS 2020-2024 release is the source for Tampa percentages and medians.

The three numbers answer different questions. The census is a full count on one day; the EDR estimate is the State of Florida's figure for April 1, 2025, and its Tampa row also lists 579 inmates and 412,105 residents excluding them (Florida EDR); the ACS figure of 401,618 is a five-year average from a sample. The Census Bureau's guidance says the ACS is strongest for characteristic distributions and that overlapping 5-year periods should not be compared (Census Bureau), so a Tampa median from 2020-2024 is not a fair comparison with one from 2019-2023.

A practical point for anyone citing Tampa data: older pages and reports often quote ACS 2019-2023 values, which the 2020-2024 release has replaced. The comparisons on this hub all come from the same 2020-2024 release for Tampa and Hillsborough County (ACS DP05, county DP05), and the next 5-year release will replace them again. Last verified: October 14, 2026, on data.census.gov, the Florida EDR April 1, 2025 estimates and the Census Bureau ACS guidance for this Tampa demographics hub.