The independent insurance market in Columbia County
Columbia is the 39th-largest of 67 Florida counties by active P&C agency count, with 55 licensed agencies and 91 active 2-20 general-lines agents on the state register.
The market read
What the numbers say about Columbia County’s structure — each read traceable to the figures above, from public records only.
Agency formation in Columbia County
5 new agency licenses were issued in Columbia over the trailing 12 months — the 37th-most of any Florida county, out of 2,776 statewide. New-agency licensing is the clearest public signal of where the market is growing versus consolidating — the full month-by-month trend for the trailing 24 months is in the report below.
The full Columbia County report
The median 2-20 agent in Columbia holds 7 distinct carrier appointments, even with the statewide median of 7. The full percentile spread — and where a book like yours sits in it — is in the report.
The complete report — licensee pipeline by class, the full carrier-appointment spread, and the carriers appointing now — emailed as a print-ready page. Free, from public records.
Other Florida county markets
Built entirely from public records — State licensing and carrier-appointment registries (FL DFS, TX TDI), Pexara vertical-data store. Retrieved 2026-07-02. No individual agency is named on these pages. Counts are of licensed agency entities with P&C qualification, assigned to metro by county of record. Platform-owned = agencies identified as owned by a consolidation platform; the remainder are independent. Figures are a point-in-time snapshot; week-over-week movement is available only from 2026-06-12 forward.