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12119 County FIPS Code

Sumter County

Florida · County seat: Bushnell · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 12119 is Sumter County, Florida. With a population of 131,832 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #34 in Florida and #486 nationally. Sumter County is part of the Wildwood-The Villages, 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

12119

State FIPS

12

FL

Population

131,832

2022 ACS · #486 nationally

Density

241.0/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

547

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Metro — under 250K population

RUCC 3

How This FIPS Code Works

12 119
12 = State FIPS (Florida)
119 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 12119 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 12 (Florida) with the 3-digit county identifier 119. Together they uniquely identify Sumter County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 12119

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 12119.

Median Household Income

$70,105

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

9.3%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

68.3

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (6)

Counties that share a border with Sumter County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 12119.

Federal Datasets Using Code 12119

FIPS code 12119 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 12119 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 12119
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:119",
    "in":   "state:12",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Sumter County, Florida, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 12119
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '12119';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '12'
  AND county_fips = '119';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 12119 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 12119
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "12",
  county    = "119",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 12 (not 12) and 119 (not 119) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Sumter 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 Sumter County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
34785 100.0%
33514 100.0%
33521 100.0%
33538 100.0%
33585 100.0%
34484 100.0%
33513 100.0%
32163 89.7%
32162 84.6%
33597 55.6%
32159 15.5%
34731 0.6%

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