THE NUMBERS
Inspection rankings in Florida.
Raw counts from official records, with the context you need to read them.
Read these with care. Health departments inspect on different schedules and by different rules, and bigger areas have more restaurants. A high closure count can mean strict enforcement as much as unsafe kitchens. This is not a safety ranking.
Most closure records, last six months
- 1Miami-Dade County, FL5,978 restaurants on record61
- 2Duval County, FL1,902 restaurants on record51
- 3Palm Beach County, FL2,072 restaurants on record50
- 4Hillsborough County, FL2,491 restaurants on record42
- 5Broward County, FL3,242 restaurants on record37
- 6Orange County, FL3,146 restaurants on record34
- 7Pinellas County, FL1,737 restaurants on record33
- 8Seminole County, FL661 restaurants on record18
- 9Lee County, FL1,511 restaurants on record13
- 10Volusia County, FL949 restaurants on record12
- 11Polk County, FL1,039 restaurants on record10
- 12Marion County, FL435 restaurants on record9
- 13Alachua County, FL543 restaurants on record8
- 14Monroe County, FL540 restaurants on record7
- 15Martin County, FL350 restaurants on record7
Highest share with a clean latest inspection
- 1Okaloosa County, FL344 restaurants with violation records55%
- 2Escambia County, FL486 restaurants with violation records49%
- 3Santa Rosa County, FL235 restaurants with violation records39%
- 4Leon County, FL287 restaurants with violation records33%
- 5Hernando County, FL194 restaurants with violation records23%
- 6Walton County, FL288 restaurants with violation records23%
- 7Marion County, FL420 restaurants with violation records21%
- 8Citrus County, FL131 restaurants with violation records21%
- 9Pasco County, FL670 restaurants with violation records19%
- 10Hillsborough County, FL2,434 restaurants with violation records18%
- 11St. Lucie County, FL520 restaurants with violation records17%
- 12Orange County, FL3,074 restaurants with violation records16%
- 13Polk County, FL1,030 restaurants with violation records15%
- 14Pinellas County, FL1,681 restaurants with violation records14%
- 15Osceola County, FL611 restaurants with violation records14%
Only areas that publish individual violations and have at least 100 restaurants are listed. “Clean” means no violations recorded at the latest inspection.
Counts refresh every day from the departments’ own records. A closure record is a restaurant whose inspection was recorded as a closure in the past 180 days.