Where we work
Eight areas, ranked by how many crawlspaces are actually in them
Pinellas County is mostly slab. The county record flags about 10,055 single-family homes as raised on piers — but the record counts an elevated beach house with a garage underneath the same as a bungalow on a crawlspace, so we checked. These are the eight areas we work, with the numbers that survived checking.
Clearwater
The largest verified crawlspace territory in the county — 746 homes across two adjoining zips, three quarters of them built before 1950, on high ground and inland.
Lealman & North St. Pete
The densest crawlspace zip in St. Petersburg. Nearly one single-family home in seven sits over one, and almost none of them have ever been looked at.
Historic Kenwood
St. Petersburg’s real bungalow heartland — 524 pre-1950 crawlspace homes, more than three times what Old Northeast holds.
Tarpon Springs
The largest raised-housing zip in the county on paper, and still a serious territory after the elevated new-builds are stripped out — with no local specialist anywhere near it.
Downtown & Roser Park
The oldest housing in the city, and the second-densest zip in St. Petersburg — almost every crawlspace here predates 1950.
Historic Old Northeast
The city’s best-known bungalow neighborhood, and a smaller crawlspace market than its reputation suggests — 179 homes, not thousands.
Gulfport
Older raised cottages close to the waterline, where elevation and humidity both work against the space under your floor.
Treasure Island
The beach town where the county record overstates the crawlspace count worst. 674 parcels look like crawlspaces on paper; about 138 of them actually are.
Where these numbers come from
The Pinellas County Property Appraiser records a foundation type and a floor system for every building in the county. We counted the single-family parcels recorded with a wood floor system over a pier foundation — both conditions — as of the September 2026 file. That came to 4,202 across these eight areas.
Then we checked them, because the record alone overstates it. An elevated coastal home with a full-height garage underneath is recorded exactly like a low cottage on a skirted crawlspace, and the first one has nothing to encapsulate. After sampling homes from the 1920s to 2018 in Street View, the number we will stand behind is 2,949. The counts above are the checked ones.
You can check your own address the same way, for free, at the Property Appraiser. We would rather you did that than take our word for it — and if the record says slab, nobody should be selling you crawlspace work.
The rule that fell out of it: inland, a house on piers is a house with a crawlspace. On the barrier islands, only the pre-1950 cottages are — everything elevated since about 1970 has an enclosed ground floor instead. If your house sits a full storey above grade, you probably do not need us, and we would rather say that than drive out.
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