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14,039 structures · 51 states · 35 registrant names

SBA Communications towers

SBA Communications owns 14,039 constructed structures in the FCC registry — 10% of all registered structures — filed under 35 different entity names. Its largest state is Texas with 1,153. The most common type is the tower (34%), the median height is 199 feet, and 67% went up in the 2000s, more than in any other decade.

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  1. 1Structures 14,039
  2. 2Median height 199 ft
  3. 3Largest state Texas
  4. 4Registrant names 35
Texas1,153California884Georgia772Florida658Alabama632Louisiana549Michigan533Mississippi487Ohio476Tennessee476
SBA Communications structures in its ten largest states, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR, October 2026.

The names it files under

When you look up the tower on your land, the FCC record will show one of these entity names rather than "SBA Communications". They are the same company for the purposes of your lease: the entity on the record is the one your lease has been assigned to.

Registrant name (as filed)Structures
SBA 2012 TC Assets, LLC1,996
SBA Towers II LLC1,991
SBA Structures, LLC1,505
SBA Properties, LLC1,485
SBA Towers, LLC1,354
SBA Monarch Towers I, LLC968
SBA Monarch Towers III, LLC824
SBA Towers IX, LLC666
SBA Towers III LLC664
SBA Infrastructures, LLC437
SBA Towers V, LLC416
SBA Towers X, LLC405

Plus 23 smaller registrant names.

Types and age

Tower4,830Monopole3,211Lattice tower2,922Guyed tower2,052Pole670Tree / stealth308Mast26Other or unspecified9On a building6Water tank5
SBA Communications structures by type, bars to scale. Source: FCC ASR.
121950s421960s811970s1541980s1,9311990s9,3462000s2,3522010s1192020s
SBA Communications structures by decade built, columns to scale. Source: FCC ASR.

Where its towers cluster

SBA Communications has structures in 2,312 of the counties that have a page on this site. The counties where it owns the most are below, with its share of each county's registered structures — the higher the share, the more likely a tower lease in that county runs to SBA Communications.

CountySBA CommunicationsShare of county
Los Angeles County, CA27621%
Harris County, TX12612%
Riverside County, CA12321%
Clark County, NV10619%
San Bernardino County, CA9516%
Orange County, CA7925%
Hillsborough County, FL7013%
Maricopa County, AZ689%

Every state

Texas 1,153California 884Georgia 772Florida 658Alabama 632Louisiana 549Michigan 533Mississippi 487Ohio 476Tennessee 476Arkansas 464Pennsylvania 459Illinois 458Oklahoma 447North Carolina 419Virginia 411Indiana 390Missouri 384Wisconsin 372South Carolina 360Minnesota 306New York 303Kansas 245Kentucky 207Massachusetts 170West Virginia 169Iowa 168Arizona 161Maryland 146New Jersey 142Connecticut 131Washington 129Nevada 125Colorado 113Oregon 82Idaho 80Maine 73Utah 69North Dakota 58New Mexico 55New Hampshire 55Nebraska 49Delaware 37Rhode Island 34Alaska 34Montana 30Vermont 30South Dakota 26Hawaii 16Wyoming 8District of Columbia 4

For a landowner

SBA Communications is a tower company: it owns the structure and rents space on it to carriers. If its tower stands on your land, you are its landlord, and the rent it pays you is a cost it would like to fix or remove — which is why tower companies themselves, as well as specialist lease buyers, make buyout and extension offers. Whoever the owner is, the calculator values the rent you would give up.

Source: FCC Antenna Structure Registration, weekly public access file (r_tower.zip, created 2026-10-18). Families group FCC registrant names that carry the brand in the name; other registrants are listed as filed. Checked 2026-10-23.