How Many Real Estate Agents Are There in Florida?

Updated September 2026 · Reviewed by Adams, Cameron & Co.

Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation publishes a file of every real estate licensee in the state, refreshed weekly, with the county attached to each record. Almost nobody reads it, because it arrives as a dozen raw spreadsheets totaling well over 400,000 rows. This page is that file, counted.

As of September 22, 2026, Florida has 238,458 active real estate sales associates. Adding brokers and broker associates, 303,397 people hold an active Florida real estate license of some kind. They work through 32,467 registered brokerage firms and 6,100 branch offices.

Florida real estate agents by county

Filter or sort the table below. Every figure is a count from the state file, not an estimate or a projection.

Download the full table as a spreadsheet file (CSV, all 67 counties, 67 rows). Free to reuse with attribution.

The number almost nobody quotes

The headline figure is the one people ask for. It is not the interesting one. 114,252 Florida sales associate licenses are inactive, which is 32.4% of every sales associate license the state has on its books.

An inactive license is not expired and not revoked. It belongs to someone who took the 63-hour course, passed the state exam, paid the fees, and is not currently registered under an employing broker. Close to a third of everyone who has ever gone through that process in Florida is not using the result.

The rate is not uniform, and the variation is where the story is. Sorting the inactive share column above puts the counties where people quit at the top. That figure says more about how hard a local market is to survive than any ranked list of brokerages will, and it is also, from a brokerage's point of view, a map of where the already-licensed and currently idle people are.

The five counties with the most working agents are Miami-Dade (40,323), Broward (28,510), Palm Beach (22,978), Orange (16,814), Hillsborough (13,065). The smallest is Liberty County with 13. Statewide, the market runs at 7.3 active agents per registered firm, and 19,999 licenses were issued for the first time in the last twelve months.

What is actually being counted

Definitions matter here, because published agent counts for Florida vary by tens of thousands depending on what the author included. This page is explicit so the number can be checked.

• Active sales associates: 238,458. The standard license most people mean by "real estate agent". Active means currently registered under an employing broker.
• Active brokers: 42,582. A separate and higher license. A broker may operate a brokerage and hold other agents' licenses.
• Active broker associates: 22,357. Hold a broker license but work under another broker rather than operating their own firm.
• Inactive sales associate licenses: 114,252. Counted separately throughout and never folded into the active figure.
• Registered firms: 32,467 and 6,100 branch offices. Note that a large share of registered firms in any county is a single broker rather than a staffed office, so firm count overstates how much real choice exists.

Excluded on purpose: licensees whose address of record is outside Florida. The state file carries them in separate regional extracts, and they hold valid Florida licenses, but they do not belong to any Florida county and including them would inflate every county figure on this page. That exclusion accounts for most of the gap between the number here and higher figures published elsewhere. Also excluded are the file's own non-county buckets, which label records as out of state, foreign or unknown.

How the count changes over time

This is the first archived snapshot, taken September 22, 2026, so there is nothing to compare it against yet and the change column is empty. That is deliberate rather than an oversight: the state publishes only the current file and keeps no history of its own, so a record of how these numbers move can only be built by archiving them month after month. We have started. The change column fills in from the next reading, and the comparison gets more useful every month after that.

This matters more than it sounds. Agent headcount is one of the more honest leading indicators of a housing market: people get licensed when they believe there is money in it and go inactive when there is not, and they do it ahead of the price data rather than after it. A county-level record of that, kept consistently, is not something that currently exists in public anywhere.

Using and citing these figures

Take them. The underlying data is a public record and the counting is not proprietary. If you are writing something, quote the numbers, use the spreadsheet, and link back so a reader can check the method and get a current figure rather than a stale one.

A citation that works: Florida Realtor Careers, "How Many Real Estate Agents Are in Florida?", counted from Florida DBPR license extracts, September 22, 2026.

If you need something this page does not show, a specific county broken down further, a different license type, or a comparison across a date range once the archive is deeper, ask. The data is already in hand and pulling a custom cut of it is a small job.

What this means if you are choosing a brokerage

One caution, since this is a recruiting site and you should know what you are reading. None of the numbers above tells you which brokerage to join. Under Florida law your license is registered under one active employing broker at a time, which makes that a local decision about a specific office and a specific broker you can reach.

What the county figures do tell you is the shape of the market you would be asking those questions in: how many people you are competing with, how concentrated the firms are, and how many local licensees have quietly stopped. That is context worth having before an interview, and it is context the firm across the table will not volunteer.