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12101 County FIPS Code

Pasco County

Florida · County seat: Dade City · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 12101 is Pasco County, Florida. With a population of 569,211 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #11 in Florida and #120 nationally. Pasco County is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. The state FIPS code for Florida is 12. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

12101

State FIPS

12

FL

Population

569,211

2022 ACS · #120 nationally

Density

762.1/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

747

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Metro — 1M+ population

RUCC 1

How This FIPS Code Works

12 101
12 = State FIPS (Florida)
101 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 12101 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 12 (Florida) with the 3-digit county identifier 101. Together they uniquely identify Pasco County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 12101

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 12101.

Median Household Income

$63,187

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

11.8%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

43.9

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (5)

Counties that share a border with Pasco County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 12101.

Federal Datasets Using Code 12101

FIPS code 12101 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 12101 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 12101
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:101",
    "in":   "state:12",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Pasco County, Florida, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 12101
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '12101';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '12'
  AND county_fips = '101';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 12101 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 12101
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "12",
  county    = "101",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 12 (not 12) and 101 (not 101) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Pasco County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Pasco County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
34652 100.0%
33525 100.0%
34691 100.0%
33541 100.0%
33542 100.0%
33543 100.0%
33544 100.0%
33545 100.0%
34690 100.0%
34679 100.0%
34669 100.0%
34668 100.0%
34667 100.0%
33574 100.0%
33576 100.0%
34655 100.0%
34654 100.0%
34653 100.0%
34610 100.0%
34637 100.0%
34638 100.0%
34639 100.0%
33523 92.4%
33540 91.6%
33556 46.6%
33559 41.6%
33558 35.9%
33597 22.1%
33549 19.0%
33548 4.0%

Showing top 30 of 32 ZIP codes by residential address share.

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