You can easily find your Florida property’s tax ID number, Folio number or Parcel ID on your local county’s property appraiser website.
While Florida’s counties may have different names for their property ID numbers, they all serve the same function of uniquely identifying a property for the purposes of public records, property taxes and other publicly available information.
The easiest way to look up your Miami-Dade County property’s folio ID number is to visit the Property Appraiser’s website. You can easily find the website by searching for “Miami property search” or some keyword variant.
You’ll arrive at the Property Appraiser website’s homepage, which will look like the following:
Click on the Property Search button and you’ll be taken to a page where you can search for property records by address, owner name, subdivision name or the Folio number.
The easiest and quickest way to find property records is to search by the owner’s name if you have it. Otherwise, you can more precisely search using the property’s address.
If you search by owner name, you can simply search by the last name if it’s unique enough, or by the full name if you’re confident of the recorded spelling.
After you click on a search result, you’ll be taken to the specific property’s page, where you’ll find a plethora of information about the specific property such as its Folio number, subdivision name, owner name(s), mailing address of the owner(s), zoning, land usage, information about the property like year built and number of bedrooms and bathrooms, assessment information, tax abatement information, sale history and much more.
In fact, the first thing you’ll see is the property’s Folio number, which is located under the Property Information sub-section on the top left of the property information page.
Pro Tip: You can also look up the property tax bills for any Folio number on this page. Just click on the link for Property Taxes on the Featured Online Tools sub-section. As you might expect, the Real Estate Account Number is the same as the Folio number.
While you might think that the Folio number is just a randomly generated series of numbers, Miami-Dade County actually explains in detail on its website what each digit actually means.
The Folio number is a 13 digit number formatted in this manner: 99-9999-999-9999, with the segments representing a property’s Municipality, Township, Range, Section, Sub-division and Parcel Identifier.
Municipality:
The 1st two digits of the folio number are the municipal code as listed on this adjoining chart. Code 30 indicates properties in Miami-Dade County not within the municipality, otherwise referred to as “unincorporated.”
Township, Range, and Section:
The next 4 digits indicate the, Township, Range and Section based on the Public Land Survey System (PLSS).
Township:
The first digit is the township number. Townships run from North to South in ascending order. Miami-Dade starts with township 51 in the north and changes every 6 miles going South until township 59. The first number of the township (5) is omitted and only the second number is used in the folio number. A township is 36 square miles.
Range:
The second of these 4 is the range number. Range numbers start with range 35 in the extreme West and change every 6 miles going East until range 42. The first digit of the range (3 or 4) is omitted and only the last number is used in the folio number.
Section:
The last two digits are the section number. This could be any number between 1 and 36, there being 36 sections in each township and range grid. A section is normally one square mile.
Sub-Division:
The next 3 digits are the subdivision number, acreage or plat. Un-subdivided properties will show 000 in this portion of the folio number. Every subdivision within a section is given a consecutive number. Therefore, 006 within a section is the 6th subdivision recorded within this section. Some acreage parcels were originally part of old subdivisions and carries 001 or 002 designation under subdivision, even though these are large tracts (acreage).
Parcel Identifier:
The last 4 digits are the actual parcel number.
List of Municipalities:
01 Miami
02 Miami Beach
03 Coral Gables
04 Hialeah
05 Miami Springs
06 North Miami
07 North Miami Beach
08 Opa-locka
09 South Miami
10 Homestead
11 Miami Shores
12 Bal Harbour
13 Bal Harbour Islands
14 Surfside
15 West Miami
16 Florida City
17 Biscayne Park
18 El Portal
19 Golden Beach
20 Pinecrest
21 Indian Creek
22 Medley
23 North Bay Village
24 Key Biscayne
25 Sweetwater
26 Virginia Gardens
27 Hialeah Gardens
28 Aventura
29 (formerly Islandia)
30 Unincorporated Miami-Dade County
31 Sunny Isles Beach
32 Miami Lakes
33 Palmetto Bay
34 Miami Gardens
35 Doral
36 Cutler Bay
Source: https://www.miamidade.gov/pa/property_folio_numbers.asp
You can look up the Parcel ID, Property Tax Number or whatever the property’s identifier is called in Florida’s other counties by simply checking out the relevant county property appraiser’s (or equivalent) website. You can usually find the right website by simply searching for the county name + property search.
For example, if you wanted to find a Broward County condo’s unique property number, then you could simply search for “Broward County property search,” and you’d find the Broward County Property Appraiser’s website.
You can see in this sample search result the “Property ID” number for a condo in Broward County. Don’t get thrown off by how different counties call their property ID numbers!
We could do a similar internet search for Palm Beach County. For example, searching on Google for “Palm Beach property search” will lead you to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s website.
You can see in the example here that Palm Beach County references their property IDs as a “Parcel Control Number” in this format: XX-X-XX-XX-XX-XXX-XXXX
