County guide · Seminole
Seminole County property appraiser search: SCPA's parcel number, and which city taxes and zones the lot
Search the Seminole County Property Appraiser, scpafl.org, by owner, address, parcel number or subdivision. Every Seminole parcel number is 17 characters, starting with the section, township and range. Then find out which of the seven cities the parcel is in, or whether it is unincorporated: the city decides the zoning, and its 2026 tax rate runs from 13.66 mills outside any city to 18.40 in Casselberry.
Which SCPA search to use
On SCPA's Real Property search the tabs are Owner, Address, Parcel, Subdivision, Facility, Zip Code and Buffer. Owner takes last name, then first. Subdivision also takes the recorded plat book and page. Buffer is the unusual one: give it a parcel number, a use code and a distance from 300 feet to 5 miles, and it lists the parcels of that use around it. A separate Sales Search finds deeds, and map.scpafl.org is the appraiser's own map.
SCPA counts 181,187 real property parcels on its 2026 tax roll. The state's 2026 roll, the one we read, has 179,705: the two are taken on different days, so for one parcel's current owner and value, SCPA is the record.
Reading the 17 characters
All 179,705 Seminole parcel numbers on the state roll are 17 characters, and on every one the first six are the survey section, township and range, in that order. Most parcels lie in townships 19 to 21 south and ranges 29 to 31 east, so the third and fourth digits are usually 19, 20 or 21, and the fifth and sixth 29, 30 or 31. What follows identifies the subdivision, block and lot. 43.3% of the numbers contain a letter there, usually in the subdivision part: copy them exactly, letters included.
In Map Views's search box, type the 17 characters with no dashes or spaces, or search by address or owner instead. Seminole has no separate alternate key on our copy of the roll.
Which city, and what it changes
Seminole is the county and seven cities. Each city zones its own land and levies its own tax on top of the county's and the school board's, so two houses on either side of a city line can carry different rules and different bills.
| Who zones the land | Parcels on our zoning map | 2026 total mills |
|---|---|---|
| Seminole County (unincorporated) | 89,855 | 13.6610 |
| Lake Mary | 6,971 | 14.3749 |
| Winter Springs | 14,350 | 16.0663 |
| Longwood | 6,375 | 16.2854 |
| Oviedo | not shown | 16.5621 |
| Altamonte Springs | 14,810 | 17.5503 |
| Sanford | 22,091 | 18.0104 |
| Casselberry | 10,289 | 18.4027 |
The mills are the sum of every levy in each city's main district for 2026, from the rates SCPA published. Casselberry's 18.4027 against the unincorporated 13.6610 is a gap of 4.74 mills: about $474 a year on each $100,000 of taxable value. Altamonte Springs uses 39 zoning codes on 14,810 parcels; the county uses 35 on six times as many. How to estimate one parcel's tax.
A county of owner-occupied houses
75.1% of Seminole parcels are single-family homes and 8.4% condo units. 59.5% of all parcels carry a homestead exemption, and 74.5% of the single-family homes do: most houses here are lived in by their owners. Among the larger cities, Winter Springs addresses run highest, 73.9% of parcels, and Altamonte Springs lowest, 54.3%. Another 5,757 parcels are residential common elements, a subdivision's ponds and tracts, usually held by its association.
From June 2025 to May 2026, the last full month on our copy, the median one-parcel sale was $403,900 over 6,969 deeds: $425,000 for a single-family home over 5,661, $175,000 for a condo unit over 754. Deeds count as qualified with DOR codes 01 to 06. Reading one house's sales.
Flood: inland, but lakes and the St. Johns
No Seminole parcel is in a storm surge or hurricane evacuation zone. Its flood risk is lakes, wetlands and the rivers on its east and north. FEMA puts 9,508 of the 163,787 parcels with their own outline in a high-risk zone, 5.8%: 6,231 in AE, 2,969 in A, 308 in AH. Another 7,376 parcels read zone X as a whole yet have a tenth or more of their area in a high-risk zone, so check the share of the lot, not only its label. The zones explained.
Where it stops
- Oviedo's zoning. The city's codes are not on our map yet; 12,713 parcels at Oviedo addresses show none. Use the City of Oviedo's zoning map.
- Sales after May 2026. Deeds thin out on our copy after May. SCPA's Sales Search and the Clerk's official records are ahead of us.
- Owners. 1,821 Seminole parcels name a different owner on the state's October final roll than on July's; the report flags them. 9.3% have an owner we match to a Sunbiz filing.
In Map Views
Search the address or the parcel number. The report shows the owner and mailing address, the homestead flag, the values and the tax district's millage, levy by levy, the zoning code and its jurisdiction, future land use, the flood zone with each zone's share of the lot, wetlands and soils, and the parcel's sales. When the owner is a company, its Sunbiz filing and officers sit under it, and one tap lists every parcel that owner holds.
The Seminole County Property Appraiser is the authority on owner, value and exemptions; the county or the city on zoning; FEMA's effective rate map on the flood zone. We copy their public records and do not replace them.