Elfers is a small unincorporated community just east of New Port Richey. It’s about 26 miles from our Seminole shop, and we serve it on scheduled days.
Book a visit in Elfers
Tell us what you need and where you are. A licensed electrician will call or text you back to set a time. For an emergency, call (727) 476-7079, 24/7.
Keywest Lights & Electric (license EC13014717) has been family-run and woman-owned since 2010, operating out of 6248 Seminole Blvd, Seminole FL 33772.
Request service online or call (727) 476-7079, 7 AM–5 PM, with weekend appointments available.
Small, older and tightly built
Elfers covers only about 3.7 square miles of land, with roughly 15,000 residents (2024 Census Gazetteer; ACS 2020–2024). The median home was built in 1975, about 4% of homes were built since 2010, and about 65% are owner-occupied. Older ranch homes and manufactured housing here often have small services, aging panels and outdoor wiring that’s seen decades of Florida weather.
Elfers at a glance (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates):
- People: about 15,006
- Median construction year: 1975
- Pre-1980 housing: 76.8%
- Housing added since 2010: 4.2%
- Owner-occupancy: 64.5%
- Share of detached homes: 82.4%
Older single-family and manufactured homes
About 82% of Elfers homes are single-family detached, about 10% are manufactured homes, and about 77% were built before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Original panels, 100-amp services and old outdoor wiring are common.
Elfers homes on their original panels
About 76.8% of Elfers homes went up before 1980, which is why we bring a thermal camera and a tester to every older-home visit. Warm breakers, loose neutrals and overloaded circuits don’t always show on the surface. If something needs attention, we explain what we found, why it matters and what it would take to fix, and we quote it in writing. If the system checks out, we tell you that too.
Elfers parks and lot pedestals
Mobile and manufactured homes make up about 9.9% of Elfers’s housing. The equipment that fails most often is outdoors: pedestals and meter bases that have taken years of sun and rain, and feeders whose connections have loosened. If your lights flicker or a breaker keeps tripping, have the pedestal and the feeder checked before replacing anything inside.
Landlords with Elfers rentals
With about 64.5% of Elfers homes owner-occupied, rental properties are a big part of our work here. We’ll quote a single unit or a portfolio, coordinate access with tenants, and document the work with photos and a short report. Turnovers are the best time for bigger jobs like panel replacements or rewiring.
Smaller services, bigger loads
Many Elfers homes were built when a 100-amp service was plenty. Today’s central air, electric water heaters and kitchen appliances push those services hard. We run a load calculation to see whether a panel replacement is enough or whether a 200-amp service upgrade makes more sense, and we coordinate any utility work.
Elfers in hurricane season
The Pasco County Evac Finder shows which zone your address falls in. About 96% of homes here heat with electricity (Census table B25040), so long outages hit heating, cooling and hot water at once. That’s where an inlet and interlock or a standby generator earns its keep. About 10% of homes are mobile or manufactured, and Florida’s Know Your Zone, Know Your Home guidance treats those homes as among the most likely to be evacuated in a storm, whatever the zone. The Census Gazetteer measures Elfers at roughly 3.7 square miles of land. Water and electrical gear don’t mix: if a storm wets your panel or meter, leave it off and call us. More in our flooded electrical guide.
Elfers work we schedule
Typical requests from Elfers:
- Panel replacements for 1970s equipment
- Service upgrades for homes still on 100 amps
- Federal Pacific and Zinsco panel replacement
- GFCI protection and grounded outlets
- Surge protection
Eave lighting on compact Elfers homes
Even a modest Elfers home looks great with permanent lights tucked under the eaves. We place the track under the soffit and along the gable rakes beneath the overhang, never on the roof surface. The controller plugs into an outlet in the garage or carport, and we add a GFCI outlet only if there isn’t one there already.
Smaller homes, simple layouts: a typical one-story Elfers home has a single continuous eave line, which makes for a quick install. We still check the outlet the controller will use, since older garages often lack GFCI protection.
Whether you call it permanent holiday lighting or soffit lighting, it stays up all year. Our JellyFish Lighting guide explains the system, permanent lighting compares the options, and JellyFish in Pasco County covers the county. Want to see it on your house first? Ask for a free design preview.
Planning a Pasco visit
Three utilities serve different parts of Pasco (your power provider). We confirm yours from the bill and arrange any disconnect or reconnect with them. We schedule Elfers work in advance and don’t offer emergency calls this far north.
Every job carries a 2-year workmanship warranty, extended to 5 years for Member Care Plan members. JellyFish hardware has a 5-year parts warranty, and Acorn Finance offers financing subject to credit approval.
Close by and also covered
New Port Richey · Holiday · Port Richey · Pasco County overview · All service areas
Elfers questions
Our home still has 100-amp service. Is that enough? Sometimes, but not if you’re adding central air, a pool or an EV charger. We run a load calculation and recommend whether to upgrade.
Do you work on manufactured homes? Yes, for panel, feeder and outlet work, and we follow the rules that apply to manufactured housing.
Can you put permanent lights on a carport? Yes, if it has a fascia or soffit to mount to. We look at it on the site visit.
Can you replace a fuse box? Yes. We replace fuse panels with a modern breaker panel and pull the permit.
Are Elfers homes mostly older or newer? Mostly pre-1980 (77%, Census), median 1975. Expect us to look closely at the panel and grounding first.
Do Elfers renters call you? Often. With about 36% of homes rented, many calls come from tenants; we loop in the owner for anything beyond a repair.
Can you help with a mobile home in Elfers? Yes. About 10% of homes here are mobile or manufactured (Census ACS). We work on their panels and meter pedestals and check community rules first.
Planning electrical or lighting work in Elfers? Call (727) 476-7079.
Panel upgrades in Elfers: see electrical panel work in Elfers.
Generator hookups in Elfers: see generator hookups in Elfers.
EV chargers in Elfers: see ev chargers in Elfers.
Surge protection in Elfers: see whole-house surge protection in Elfers.