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Web design & SEO for Longboat Key, on the numbers.
Longboat Key is an affluent Gulf barrier island split between Manatee and Sarasota counties, with one of Florida's oldest populations, seven-figure home values, and the metro's highest share of self-employed residents.
Photo: Max Shumsky / PexelsLongboat Key by the numbers
US Census ACS 2024 five-year estimates. Sourced in full below.
- Population
- 7,539
- Median age
- 71.2
- Median household income
- $158,030
- Median home value
- $1,022,100
- Owner-occupied
- 93.6%
- Broadband access
- 95.5%
- Self-employed
- 36.9%
- Seasonal housing
- 49.6%
- Median year built
- 1980
What the data says about building here
Longboat Key is the metro's high end. The median home is worth $1,022,100, the median resident is 71.2 years old — one of Florida's oldest communities — and 36.9% of the workforce is self-employed, the highest self-employment rate anywhere in the metro.
That founder-and-owner profile shapes how a business sells here: a market of settled, affluent, often self-employed homeowners, with 49.6% of housing used seasonally. Demand is high-value and time-shifted to the season.
As a Gulf barrier island split between Manatee and Sarasota counties, Longboat Key lives under the FEMA 50% rule and the coast's toughest post-storm enforcement. Its anchoring base is Sarasota County's 15,989 establishments and $9.05B in payroll (CBP 2023).
The Sarasota County business base
Longboat Key's market sits inside Sarasota County's 15,989 employer establishments and $9.05B in annual payroll (County Business Patterns 2023). 2,126 of those are construction firms employing about 15,830 people, alongside 2,199 professional-services firms — the businesses most likely to need a site that earns the phone call.
What we build for Longboat Key businesses
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