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If people vote with their feet, St. Petersburg wins the Pinellas County election.
Over the last three years, 15,000 people have settled in Pinellas County, according to the city's "State of the Economy" report.
Almost half of the new residents chose St. Petersburg. Largo came in second at about 13%. Clearwater grabbed just over 10% of the new residents. Unincorporated Pinellas County received about 5% of those new people.
That was one of the many factoids released in the report by the administration of Mayor Ken Welch, who showcased the statistics and spoke alongside Cathie Wood, ARK Invest during a recent presentation.
Welch and the report noted unemployment in St. Pete is down.
The rate for the final quarter of 2023 was 2.9%, a small drop from 3% in the same quarter in 2022; a bigger drop from the 4.7% rate in 2021; and an even bigger drop from the 8.2% rate at the end of 2020.
Other key findings of the report:
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