59%built before 1980
How likely is lead paint where you live in Pinellas County
St. Petersburg's own housing runs a lot older than the county average, plenty of 1920s to 1950s bungalows still standing. Countywide, 58.8% of homes were built before 1980. Inside St. Petersburg itself it's 70.1%, and better than 1 in 7 homes predate 1950 entirely. Type your address and get the number for your actual block.
58.8%of Pinellas County homes were built before 1980
6.2%were built before 1950, the highest-risk years
1977county's median year built
Look up your address
Type a street address in Pinellas County and see the lead-paint likelihood for that specific census tract, based on how old the housing is around it.
What you can do about it
Test before you renovate
If a home was built before 1978 and you're about to sand, scrape, or demo anything painted, test first. That's when old paint actually turns into dust in the air, and that's the exposure that matters.
A test kit exists for this
Fluoro-Spec test kits spray a surface and glow bright green under UV light if lead is there. No lab, no mailing anything off, an answer in seconds. More at detectlead.com.
The City of St. Petersburg runs Healthy Homes St. Pete out of its Housing and Community Development department; email HealthyHomes@stpete.org or call 727-893-7111 if you want to talk to them directly.
This same address-to-risk lookup runs live for Columbus, Ohio at detectlead.com/columbus. Pinellas County is the same idea, built on this county's own housing-age data.
Questions about this page
DetectLead
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This page is an independent public-information tool built by DetectLead, not an official publication of Pinellas County and not a county program. Housing-age data is from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020-2024 5-year estimates (table B25034), at the census-tract level. Lead-paint likelihood here is estimated from neighborhood housing age only, it isn't a reading of any specific home. Fluoro-Spec test kits are a field screen, not a substitute for an EPA-certified lead inspection where one is legally required.