County Breakdown 1963-2014

[LAZL]

In Order of # of State Championship Appearances (shared titles are shown as 0.5)

SUPER - Population Over 1 Million

Palm Beach - 56 Appearances (29 Titles - 17 Public, 12 Private)
Dade - 51 Appearances (31.5 Titles - 28.5 Public, 3 Private)
Broward - 41 Appearances (19 Titles - 5 Public, 14 Private)
Hillsborough - 27 Appearances (11 Titles - 10 Public, 1 Private)
Orange - 13 Appearances (4.5 Titles - 3.5 Public, 1 Private)

EXTRA LARGE - Population 500,000 to 999,999

Polk - 39 Appearances (16 Titles - 14 Public, 2 Private)
Duval - 38 Appearances (24 Titles - 1 Public, 23 Private)
Brevard - 17 Appearances (13 Titles - 13 Public, 0 Private)
Pinellas - 10 Appearances (0 Titles)
Volusia - 5 Appearances (1 Titles - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Lee - 3 Appearances (0 Titles)

LARGE - Population 300,000 to 499,999

Escambia - 19 Appearances (12 Titles - 12 Public, 0 Private)
Manatee - 14 Appearances (8 Titles - 8 Public, 0 Private)
Marion - 9 Appearances (6 Titles - 4 Public, 2 Private)
Collier - 6 Appearances (3 Titles - 3 Public, 0 Private)
Lake - 6 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Sarasota - 5 Appearances (2 Titles - 1 Public, 1 Private)
Seminole - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Pasco - 1 Appearance (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)

MEDIUM - Population 150,000 to 299,999

Leon - 31 Appearances (20 Titles - 13 Public, 7 Private)
Okaloosa - 14 Appearances (8 Titles - 8 Public, 0 Private)
Alachua - 8 Appearances (4 Titles - 4 Public, 0 Private)
St Johns - 8 Appearances (4 Titles - 4 Public, 0 Private)
Bay - 5 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Osceola - 4 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Santa Rosa - 3 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Clay - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
St Lucie - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Charlotte - 0 Appearances
Hernando - 0 Appearances
Martin - 0 Appearances

SMALL - Population 50,000 to 149,999

Sumter - 5 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Highlands - 3 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Columbia - 3 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Indian River - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Putnam - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Walton - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Monroe - 1 Appearance (0 Titles)
Citrus - 0 Appearances
Flagler - 0 Appearances
Nassau - 0 Appearances

MINIATURE - Population 1 to 49,999

Madison - 7 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Hendry - 7 Appearances (0.5 Titles - 0.5 Public, 0 Private)
Jefferson - 6 Appearances (5.5 Titles - 5.5 Public, 0 Private)
Gulf - 6 Appearances (4 Titles - 4 Public, 0 Private)
Suwannee - 6 Appearances (4 Titles - 4 Public, 0 Private)
Calhoun - 5 Appearances (3 Titles - 3 Public, 0 Private)
Union - 5 Appearances (3 Titles - 3 Public, 0 Private)
Jackson - 5 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Wakulla - 4 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Bradford - 3 Appearances (2 Titles - 2 Public, 0 Private)
Holmes - 3 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Levi - 3 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Hardee - 3 Appearances (0 Titles)
Gadsden - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Gilchrist - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Lafayette - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Taylor - 2 Appearances (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Hamilton - 2 Appearances (0 Titles)
Franklin - 1 Appearance (1 Title - 1 Public, 0 Private)
Dixie - 1 Appearance (0 Titles)
Glades - 1 Appearance (0 Titles)
Liberty - 1 Appearance (0 Titles)
Washington - 1 Appearance (0 Titles)
Baker - 0 Appearances
DeSoto - 0 Appearances
Okeechobee - 0 Appearances

 

[Choctaw_fan]

Great work and thanks for all the time it took to do this.

However, the period of time represented is way too long to make the information meaningful because of the explosive growth in Florida. Those current populations don't really represent what any county looked like in the 60s or 70s.

An example is Okaloosa County which hadn't won a championship since 1991 but the population has quadrupled since then. Also, the school with the most championships is Baker, still a K-12 school with a very small number of students. The two 7A schools and twp 6A schools, with a combined student populations of about 8,000, haven't done nearly as well. I'm sure there are examples in many other counties.

You could compare them in the 60s to where they are today to include championships and population. That would be interesting!

Sorry, I do data analysis for a living. Can't get away from it.

 

[LAZL]

Choctaw_fan,

I'll have to wait until retirement to tackle that one. In the meantime, I will be updating Florida's Best on my site in the next week or so. I have the geographic powers by decade which you can check out. Unfortunately, I don't have them broken out by population or demographics. Maybe in another 5 or 6 years, I can give it a shot. Hope you're doing well with your bowl game picks.

 

[Dan in Daytona]

As always, great stuff Laz.

 

[Choctaw_fan]

I'm on vacation this week. I could probably get the county populations. I'm sure the data is somewhere on myflorida,com.

I retire in about 970 days. Then I could do this for fun!

 

[Choctaw_fan]

Go to the link and select the years you want. I pulled down every 10 years but Rivals will not let me upload the data. At least I found the location of the data.
This post was edited on 12/28 4:37 PM by Choctaw_fan

Population by County

 

[peezy28]

Good stuff Laz

 

[Cocoa2010]

Wow, when Brevard gets represented, they show up! 13/17, that's 76.5%, is the highest percentage with at least 10 appearances.