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The Safety Harbor handbook

Living in Safety Harbor, FL: what to set up and who to call

All of Safety Harbor gets its mail under one ZIP code, 34695. For emergencies, Safety Harbor is closest to Mease Countryside Hospital, 0.6 miles away.

I’m new in town

What to set up in Safety Harbor, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.

Home services

Power, water and internet

Who to call to start service at a new address in Safety Harbor.

Electricity

Power comes from Duke Energy

Duke Energy (Duke Energy Florida, LLC), an investor-owned utility, serves all of Safety Harbor. Its homes paid an average of 18.4¢ per kWh in 2025, about $185 a month (its average across Florida).

Start or move service: progress-energy.com · (800) 700-8744

Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.

Drinking water · reported to EPA

Water comes from Safety Harbor Water Dept

Safety Harbor Water Dept supplies Safety Harbor: about 86% of residents live in its service area. Pinellas County Utilities serves another 14%. It buys treated surface water (EPA lists Clearwater Water System and Pinellas County Utilities and City of St Petersburg as sellers) and serves 16,473 people in all.

No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 83% of the 3,525 systems serving 10,001–50,000 people.

Lead, 90th percentile0.6 ppb
015 ppb action level20

The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan–Dec 2023, was 0.6 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. That’s lower than 64% of similar systems’ latest results.

The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report

EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0. Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. FL6521576.

Internet

7 home internet providers serve Safety Harbor

98% of 7,145 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 60% can get fiber.

ProviderTechnologyAddressesFastest (Mbps)
SpectrumCable, Fiber98%1,000/35
WOW!Cable97%1,200/50
FrontierFiber, DSL61%7,000/7,000
T-MobileFixed wireless86%100/20
VerizonFixed wireless81%300/20
AT&TFixed wireless64%25/3

FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.

Trash & recycling

Trash day in Safety Harbor depends on your street

Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Safety Harbor, from the town’s own site.

How trash works hereTown pickupTown crews pick up at the curbcityofsafetyharbor.com
Trash dayBy addressDepends on your address
Pickup

Your pickup week

What goes in the recycling bin

Single-stream recycling

All your recyclables go in one bin, no sorting.

  • Newspaper
  • Mixed paper
  • #1 through #7 plastic bottles
  • Glass

From cityofsafetyharbor.com, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .

Schools

Where your child goes to school

Public school districts and the school path by grade.

Safety Harbor kids go to
PK–5Safety Harbor Elementary SchoolPinellas County School District
6–8Safety Harbor Middle SchoolPinellas County School District
9–1217 high schoolsDepends on your address

Safety Harbor is in Pinellas County School District.

BSchool gradeSee Schools →

U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.

Government & voting

Town hall and registering to vote

Who to call, and how to register.

Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Nov 2023; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.

ZIP codes & area codes

Safety Harbor is in ZIP code 34695

ZIP codes where Safety Harbor residents live, with the share of the town in each.

ZIPPost office nameShare of Safety HarborZIP’s residents in Safety Harbor
34695Safety Harbor, FL99%94%

A few homes fall in 33761.

Area code727Wikidata

Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.

Everyday places

Getting around, the ER and the library

One line each; the subject pages have the rest.

ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.

Questions about living in Safety Harbor

Who supplies Safety Harbor’s drinking water, and has it had violations?

Safety Harbor Water Dept (EPA ID FL6521576). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 83% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 0.6 ppb (Jan–Dec 2023), against a 15 ppb action level.

Who provides electricity in Safety Harbor?

Duke Energy (Duke Energy Florida, LLC), an investor-owned utility. Its homes paid about 18.4¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).

What internet providers serve Safety Harbor?

Spectrum, WOW!, Frontier, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T (FCC, as of December 2025).

What ZIP codes are in Safety Harbor?

34695. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.

What school district is Safety Harbor in?

Pinellas County School District.

How do I register to vote in Safety Harbor?

In Florida you can register online until 29 days before Election Day, in person until 29 days before Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 29 days before). Elections here are run by the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections. Check your registration at registration.elections.myflorida.com.

Sources & dates

Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.

  • Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
  • Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
  • Trash: Safety Harbor’s own website (cityofsafetyharbor.com), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
  • ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
  • Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
  • Registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
  • Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
  • Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.