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Ken Welch (Unknown affiliation) has been Mayor of St. Petersburg since 6 Jan 2022. The unemployment rate stood at 4.2% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 1.2 percentage points higher than when Ken Welch took office in January 2022, while Florida's rose 0.9 percentage points. Among the 73 cities with a year or more of figures, St. Petersburg ranks 2nd on GDP per person and 88th of 117 on the fall in unemployment. Over the same months Florida's population rose 2.1% a year; St. Petersburg's rose 1.1%. Since day zero typical rent climbed 3.3% a year, 16.7% in all.
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