Jane Castor (Democratic) has been Mayor of Tampa since 1 Jan 2019. Unemployment rate: 4.8% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 1.5 percentage points higher than when Jane Castor took office in January 2019; Florida's moved +1.0 percentage point over the same months. On GDP per person Tampa is 12th of the 73 cities, on the fall in unemployment 81st of 117. The widest gap with Florida is in the average hourly pay: +0.2% a year against +0.9%; the gap was widest in Dec 2023, −7.0% against +3.2%. Over Bob Buckhorn's tenure, 2011 to 2019, the unemployment rate moved −6.7 percentage points. Typical home value is up 67.1% since day zero (6.8% a year).
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