Pinellas County's Belleair Shore is small, with all 51 of its houses on the same side of the same street along the Gulf of Mexico. But, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, nobody lives there. Belleair Shore's population, according to recently released figures from the 2000 census, is zero. We want to be counted. The Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office has voter rolls showing the town has 84 registered voters.
Several residents swear they filled out their census forms last year.
Town Commissioner John Hayes notes that, just counting his family, Belleair Shore already has three people. They had us mixed up with an address in Indian Rocks Beach. Mayor John Robertson said he talked to census workers about Belleair Shore's boundaries. The town is 5,000 feet long, less than a mile, and an average of 230 feet wide. All of the town's citizens live on the west side of Gulf Boulevard.