Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Bloomingdale, FL

Bloomingdale is an unincorporated census-designated place in east-central Hillsborough County, Florida, a suburban community sandwiched between Brandon and Valrico east of Tampa.

Bloomingdale was settled some time before 1850 by John Vickers, John Carney, and others, and Carney was killed by Seminole fighters on April 17, 1856, during the Third Seminole War.

The Bloomingdale School was founded in 1884 and in 1897 became a teachers' institute, training an average of 54 teachers at a time who came from as far north as Gainesville and as far south as Miami-Dade County.

When the railway was routed through Brandon instead of Bloomingdale in 1890, the community faded - its post office closed in 1910 and its school in 1920 - and it stayed quiet until the 1960s, when it reinvented itself as a bedroom community for Tampa.

The 2020 census counted 22,947 people in Bloomingdale, up only slightly from 22,711 in 2010 but far above the 13,912 counted in 1990.

Bloomingdale has about 8,341 households, and they run large, averaging 2.85 people per household.

Bloomingdale High School is located within the community, and local students are served by Hillsborough County Public Schools.

Bloomingdale is a well-educated suburb: 93.0% of its adults have finished high school and 41.8% hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Although Bloomingdale is its own community, it has no ZIP code of its own - mail there is addressed to Brandon (33511) or Valrico (33596).