{"id":271,"date":"2013-08-14T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:52:56","slug":"statistics-info-fla-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/statistics-info-fla-2","title":{"rendered":"STATISTICS: HOW MANY BRITS IN FLORIDA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u25ba [2024] This fact never changes:\u00a0 From a NEW<\/b><\/span>S R<\/span><\/b>EPORT from <\/span><\/b>Washington\u00a0<\/span><\/b>DC<\/span><\/b> by McClatchy News Service <\/span><\/b>September 16, 2006:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0“The US Government still has no means of tracking foreign travellers arriving in <\/span>America<\/span>, even though Congress passed a bill and approved $900 million dollars to create a tracking system called US-VISIT.\u00a0\u00a0 But it never got off the ground properly and there is still no system to track foreigners when they leave, Homeland Security officials said. The article said the US Government has a partial system to track SOME foreigners on arrival, but no system to headcount if\/when they leave.\u00a0 All of which adds to the reason why nobody can provide an official figure on the number of Brits in <\/span>America<\/span>.”\u00a0 [It does not keep the USCIS immigration system accurate or efficient either—PK].\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2024 \u25ba\u00a0 HOW MANY BRITS LIVE\/WORK IN FLORIDA?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/b>This is the question I’m asked constantly by reporters, agencies, Brits\u00a0and curious Americans. \u00a0\u00a0 THE ANSWER:\u00a0\u00a0 Nobody tracks it—nobody can.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Arriving Brits are not required to register officially,\u00a0\u00a0so even if you wanted to headcount them you couldn’t.\u00a0 Tourist Brits, who are headcounted\u00a0 by USCIS and Florida tourism officials\u00a0 have to leave after 3 months.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>The British Bureau of Florida has the only statewide database, compiled since 1991 as part of our dealings with the British community in Florida.\u00a0\u00a0We maintain a proprietary computer database broken down by Florida area code [305], [904] [407] [386] [941] etc, which we use for our PR work across the state.\u00a0\u00a0 We can fairly accurately estimate there are 400,000 Brits living in Florida<\/span> permanently or temporarily.\u00a0 This is based on our vast databas<\/span>e of Brits in all areas, British businesses and professionals, FABB members and the prior <\/span>Florida<\/span> circulation list of the Union Jack British Newspaper.\u00a0 B<\/span>ut that figure fluctuates and my office can’t know every arriving British individual or business. Britons move in and out of <\/span>Florida<\/span> daily, setting up businesses, emigrating here, returning to <\/span>UK<\/span> for good, alive or dead!\u00a0 NOTE:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>When I posed the question in person to the British Ambassador to the <\/span>USA<\/span> in 1993,\u00a0 the top British official here, for my Union Jack Newspaper column he said:\u00a0 “Frankly Patricia, \u00a0the British Government has no idea how many Brits are in <\/span>Florida<\/span>.\u00a0 And you can quote me on that. That’s our official answer!”\u00a0 \u00a0To date, that UK Government answer hasn’t changed. —PK, Publisher<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"flagman\"<\/a>\u00a0 UK BRITS LOVE MIAMI, FLYING AND SAILING IN YEAR-ROUND! The Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, tracks arrivals from UK [and other countries]. Call office [305] 539-3000 or see www.miamiandbeaches.com<\/a><\/span>
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\u25ba UK TOURIST NUMBERS TO ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>Consult www.visitflorida.org<\/a> the state’s tourism website or call [850] 488-5607. They supply\/track that information and maintain current figures<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u25ba MEDIA ONLY for background\/official information your shows and articles on Florida:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Call the State\u2019s Press Office in Tallahassee, the state capital on [850]\u00a0 487-2568.\u00a0 This is inside the Governor\u2019s Office [850] 488-7146 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u25ba\u00a0 \u00a0The United Kingdom has long been Florida\u2019s most important international market outside of Canada. And the numbers show why.\u00a0 1.3 million tourists from the UK visited Florida annually. But it\u2019s more important than just the volume of visitors, Visit Florida Florida President Will Seccombe said.\u00a0 \u00a0British tourists spend and spend and spend. The data shows us a Brit is going to spend more than any other foreign visitor, say Visit Florida, the State\u2019s official tourism marketing agency based in Tallahassee. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u25ba\u00a0 The population of Florida is over 21 million [in 2022] with 1000 people day moving to this state. For this year’s Florida numbers consult the official website:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>https:\/\/www.census.gov<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u25ba \u00a0British firms employ about 40,000 people in Florida,\u00a0 making Britain the largest foreign job supporter in the Sunshine State. This figure obviously changes, up or down. \u00a0For further\/current UK trade information phone the Miami British Consulate on [305] 400-6400. Press the Trade option.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u25a0 \u00a0<\/strong>BRITISH VISITORS <\/strong>abound year-round in Florida but Miami specifically increases in popularity year by year.\u00a0 [I don\u2019t have figures into Orlando and Tampa airports]. I hear British accents everywhere in Miami and English blokes walking around in football fan shirts, shaming their prettily dressed wives. \u00a0Why do so many British male tourists to Florida men think suitable vacation wear is a West Ham shirt?\u00a0 Male tourists from Italy are divinely dressed in linen trousers and fitted shirts—sigh.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u25ba\u00a0 Tony Blair’s UK Government\u00a0 Think Tank contacted my office in May 2006<\/strong> to provide figures for their research, to ascertain the number of British expatriates in Florida.\u00a0 [I suspect for voter outreach].\u00a0 Also\u00a0in\u00a02006 The British Consulate in Orlando set up a system whereby they could track the British community in Florida, in case of distress in hurricanes etc, and consulted me. \u00a0They asked me to publicise it via my Union Jack Newspaper newspaper column to expats in Florida, which I did then and in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0 The Consulate now has a voluntary system where Brits can register–see it explained on BRITISH CONSULATES page on this website. \u00a0The number of Brits in Florida literally goes up and down every day.\u00a0 \u00a0—PK Publisher.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u25ba\u00a0 FLORIDA PROPERTY\u00a0<\/span><\/span>FACT<\/span><\/span>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>UK<\/span><\/span> buyers comprise 7% and come 5th in the foreign top ten. \u00a0In <\/span><\/span>South Florida<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 60% of buyers are foreign nationals,\u00a0 many from <\/span><\/span>Europe<\/span><\/span>.
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\u25ba\u00a0 UK COMPANIES IN FLORIDA:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are about 300 <\/span>UK<\/span>-affiliated companies in <\/span>Florida<\/span>, employing thousands of Floridians. For current figures phone the British Consulate-General\u00a0 in <\/span>Miami on [305] 400-6400.\u00a0 Choose the UK Trade Office option
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\u25ba [Pre-Corona 2020] 1.4 million British tourists<\/b>\u00a0visit <\/span>Florida<\/span> each year–official figures fro State Tourism Department. One third of all visitors to <\/span>Busch\u00a0<\/span>Gardens<\/span> in <\/span>Tampa<\/span> are British, Busch Gardens PR department confirmed.\u00a0 For latest numbers of visitors from <\/span>UK<\/span>, phone <\/span>Florida<\/span>‘s State Department of Tourism in <\/span>Tallahassee<\/span> on [850] 488-5607.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u25ba\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>OFFICIAL\u00a0STATISTICS FROM\u00a0THE\u00a0USCIS [Immigration ]\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\n1] \u00a0Florida comes second to California as the most popular state for Brits to settle,\u00a0 the USCIS announced in 2006.
\n2] The most popular <\/span><\/i>Florida<\/span><\/i> areas Brits choose to settle in are:\u00a0\u00a0 Broward-Miami-Dade area, second <\/span><\/i>Orlando<\/span><\/i>, third Sarasota and\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Tampa<\/span><\/i>.
\n3]\u00a0<\/span><\/i>South Dakota<\/span><\/i> is the least popular state with emigrating Brits—The Brokeback Brits, tee hee?
\n4] Most <\/span><\/i>UK<\/span><\/i> Brits came here on family visas [marriage to Americans etc] rather than E2\/B1\/B2 work\/business visas.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  \u25ba [2024] This fact never changes:\u00a0 From a NEWS REPORT from Washington\u00a0DC by McClatchy News Service September 16, 2006:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“The US Government still has no means of tracking foreign travellers arriving in America, even though Congress passed a bill and approved $900 million dollars to create a tracking system called US-VISIT.\u00a0\u00a0 But it never got (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123459,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10185,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/10185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishflorida.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}