# Wakulla County, Florida: Power, Data Centers and the Local Economy Home to Crawfordville and Panacea Wakulla County is one of the places pushing back on the data center build-out. Wakulla County is home to Sopchoppy and St. Marks. The Moratorium Tracker holds 1 local measure here (1 in force); the latest is “County moratorium on data centers with no end date”. Employers here counted 6,714 jobs in 2025, up 13.5% from 2019. Unemployment was 4.1% in August 2026, against 2.8% in 2019. 2 MW of that came online in 2019 or later, mostly solar. +13.5% total jobs since 2019, now 6,714 272 MW of operating power plants, mostly natural gas 16.63¢ per kWh for Duke Energy Florida, LLC residential customers, 2024 ## Cities and towns in Wakulla County Wakulla County is home to Sopchoppy and St. Marks. Sopchoppy487 residents St. Marks320 residents Unincorporated communities (governed by the county): Crawfordville, Panacea. Residents are 2025 Census estimates for the part of each city, town or township inside this county. Census publishes no annual estimate for unincorporated communities. ## What changed in Wakulla County | Measure | Then | Now | Change | Rank in Florida | |---|---|---|---|---| | Population (2020 → 2025) | 33,917 | 38,089 | ▲ 12.3% | 48th of 67 by size | | Total jobs (2019 → 2025) | 5,918 | 6,714 | ▲ 13.5% | 18th of 67 by growth | | Average annual pay (2019 → 2025) | $37,752 | $50,445 | ▲ 33.6% | — | | Unemployment rate (2019 → August 2026) | 2.8% | 4.1% | ▲ 1.3pts | — | | Generating capacity added since 2019 | — | 2 MW | | — | | Generating capacity retired since 2019 | — | 0 MW | | — | 38,089 people live here, up 12.3% since 2020. Its power plants have 272 MW of capacity, 99% of it natural gas. Duke Energy Florida, LLC is the largest utility serving Wakulla County, one of 2 with territory here. Its residential customers paid an average 16.63¢/kWh in 2024, above the 13.54¢ median for Florida utilities. ## Who powers Wakulla County ### Utilities with service territory in Wakulla County | Utility | Ownership | Service | Residential customers (systemwide) | Residential price, 2024 | Commercial share of sales | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Duke Energy Florida, LLC | Investor Owned | Bundled | 1,793,067 | 16.63¢ | 38% | | Talquin Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | Bundled | 53,881 | 14.85¢ | 16% | Customer counts, prices and sales shares cover each utility's whole system in the state, not only this county. Commercial sales include data centers. ### Operating power plants | Technology | Capacity | Share | |---|---|---| | Natural gas | 270 MW | 99% | | Solar | 2 MW | 1% | | Largest plants | Owner | Technology | MW | Since | |---|---|---|---|---| | S O Purdom | City of Tallahassee - (FL) | Natural gas | 270 MW | 2000 | | FL Solar D2, LLC | Altus Power America Management, LLC | Solar | 2 MW | 2023 | ## The Wakulla County labor market | Industry (2025) | Jobs | Average pay | Concentration vs U.S. | |---|---|---|---| | All industries | 6,714 | $50,445 | 1.00 | Concentration is the BLS location quotient: 1.0 means the industry holds the same share of local jobs as it does nationally. Industry rows count private employers; cells BLS suppresses are left out. ## Data centers and local rules in Wakulla County ### Local measures | Measure | Status | Date | |---|---|---| | County moratorium on data centers with no end date | In force | 2026-09 | ## Wakulla County and its neighbors Of the 4 counties that border Wakulla County, Leon County carries the most build-out activity: data centers, planned generation and operating plants combined. [[[[ | County | Population | Jobs since 2019 | Operating MW | Planned MW | Data centers | Local measures | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Wakulla County | 38,089 | ▲ 13.5% | 272 MW | — | — | 1 | | Franklin County](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/franklin-county) | 13,029 | ▲ 5.8% | — | — | — | — | | Jefferson County](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/jefferson-county) | 16,007 | ▲ 19.3% | — | 75 MW | — | — | | Leon County](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/leon-county) | 299,048 | ▲ 8.0% | 754 MW | — | 2 | 1 | | Liberty County](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/liberty-county) | 8,035 | ▲ 1.5% | — | — | — | — | ## More of Florida [All Florida countiesThe state power page and county mapOpen →](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida)[Leon County299,048 peopleOpen →](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/leon-county)[Jefferson County16,007 peopleOpen →](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/jefferson-county)[Franklin County13,029 peopleOpen →](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/franklin-county)[Liberty County8,035 peopleOpen →](https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/liberty-county) ## Wakulla County, answered from the record ### Who provides electricity in Wakulla County, Florida? 2 utilities have service territory in Wakulla County in the EIA-861 2024 report: Duke Energy Florida, LLC, Talquin Electric Coop, Inc. The largest, Duke Energy Florida, LLC, charged residential customers 16.63¢/kWh on average in 2024. ### What power plants are in Wakulla County? 2 operating plants with 272 MW of capacity. The largest is S O Purdom (270 MW, natural gas). ### Are there data centers in Wakulla County? The SAVRN Data Center Map has no data center in Wakulla County. The nearest activity on record is next door in Leon County. ### Is Wakulla County adding jobs? Employers counted 6,714 jobs in 2025 against 5,918 in 2019 (+13.5%, BLS QCEW). ### Does Wakulla County have a data center moratorium? The SAVRN Moratorium Tracker holds 1 local measure for Wakulla County, 1 in force. --- Canonical: https://savrn.com/power-supply-chain-map/florida/wakulla-county Updated: 2026-10-08. Refreshed weekly by SAVRN from EIA, BLS, BEA, Census and the SAVRN trackers. License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).