The United States Census Bureau defines certain unincorporated communities (lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status) as census-designated places (CDPs) for enumeration in each decennial census. The Census Bureau defined 485 Florida CDPs for the 2000 census and 509 CDPs for the 2010 census. As of the 2020 census, there were 41 new CDPs added and 3 CDPs removed/merged into others for a total of 547.