Moving to Florida
You do not have to learn every office at once. Get the driving, home, storm, and local pieces in order first.
First pass
Drive
If you will drive here, start with FLHSMV. New residents have a short clock for a Florida driver license, and a vehicle needs Florida insurance before title and registration work.
Make a FLHSMV stop your first official errand.
FLHSMV new resident pageHome
Homestead can lower part of a primary home's taxable value, and Save Our Homes can limit later assessment increases. Your county property appraiser decides eligibility.
Find your county property appraiser and read their homestead page.
Florida Revenue property exemptionsStorms
Know your zone, know your home, build a kit, keep copies of important papers, and sign up for local alerts. It is much easier before a storm has a name.
Use Florida Disaster, then check your county emergency management page.
Florida Disaster plan and prepareVote
Florida lets you submit a new registration or update an existing record online. Your local supervisor of elections is the place to check polling details later.
Use the state voter registration page, then save your county elections office.
Florida voter registrationSmall but important
Florida has statewide rules, but a lot of the actual work happens locally: property appraiser, tax collector, supervisor of elections, emergency management, city permits, utilities, and schools. When a page says "check locally," that usually means your county or city office is the one that can give the final answer.
Official checks
Last checked June 29, 2026. Florida Porch helps you get oriented; the office linked here is the place to confirm before you file, pay, register, or decide.
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