Business Community

• There are more than 34,000 businesses in Pinellas County, a 279 square mile peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay.

• Pinellas County’s labor force is over 477,560 and the employment is approaching a half-million.

• “Bizjournal” ranked the Tampa/Clearwater/St. Petersburg area as the 11th hottest job market in the nation.

• Pinellas County is #2 in manufacturing employment and #3 in manufacturing firms in the state of Florida.            

• Pinellas County is a popular tourist destination with over 5 million tourists in 2005.

Business Technology

• Forbes magazine recently named the Tampa Bay area the top location in the state for technology related jobs.

• Pinellas County leads Florida's 23-County High Tech Corridor of medical technology employment with 13% of medical technology employees.

• Within the Florida High Tech Corridor, Pinellas County employs 17% of the Modeling and Simulation Industry.     

• Pinellas County may be Florida’s second smallest county but the ratio of high tech companies is a dramatic 4.4 high tech companies per square mile.          

Quality of Life

• There are 361 days of sunshine on average per year in Pinellas County which also maintains an average annual temperature of 73.7 degrees.

• Pinellas County provides 244 miles of shoreline along Tampa Bay, Boca Ciega Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and intra-coastal waterways.

• Pinellas County offers 35 miles of white-sand beaches on some 20 barrier islands; minutes from many popular Florida attractions.         

• The Pinellas Trail, a 47-mile hiking/biking trail, connects St. Petersburg with central and north Pinellas County; the longest urban linear trail in the Eastern U.S.

• Pinellas County is host to over 900 festivals and events per year.

• Pinellas County is not only the birthplace of baseball’s spring training, but is also home to the major leagues’ newest franchise, the Tampa Bay Rays, playing at downtown St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field.