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Market Intelligence · Jacksonville, FL · Property & Casualty

The independent insurance market in Jacksonville

523 P&C-licensed agencies operate in Jacksonville 93.7% still independent, 29 owned by consolidation platforms. Here’s how the market is structured.

Agencies
523
P&C-licensed in metro
Still independent
93.7%
490 agencies
Platform-owned
5.5%
29 agencies
With active appointments
474
carrier-appointed agencies

How Jacksonville is structured

Carrier appointments measure an agency’s scale and reach. A market with a long tail of single-carrier agencies is fragmented — the structural signature of one that hasn’t consolidated yet.

15
median carrier appointments
per agency
15
single-carrier agencies
3% of appointed agencies
5.5%
consolidation penetration
platform-owned share

Jacksonville is in early consolidation 93.7% of agencies remain independent, and 3% of appointed agencies carry just one carrier. The fragmentation runway is wide and largely unconsolidated.

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Other Florida markets

Miami
2,518 agencies · 5.5% owned
Tampa
1,440 agencies · 5.1% owned
Orlando
1,181 agencies · 5.8% owned

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.