City · Duval County, Florida

Jacksonville Beach, Florida

Jacksonville Beach is a city in Duval County, Florida, part of the Jacksonville, FL metro area. It has 23,654 residents. Jacksonville Beach, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 49 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,947 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #332 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), new business applications (high) and bachelor's degree or higher (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), homicide rate (high) and violent crime rate (high).

49Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,947 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #332 of 780 in FL
Population: 23,654 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 3,233.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 1235050

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety3#15,089/15,637
Economy90#1,561/15,631
Housing23#11,565/14,977
Health59#6,411/15,609
Healthcare49#7,941/15,650
Environment29#11,039/15,453
Education75#3,982/15,649
Infrastructure87#2,033/15,650
Community26#11,583/15,651
Leisure & amenities60#6,326/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Jacksonville Beach, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Duval County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Comfortable days · high35.7%
95/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDuval County value
New business applications · high23.1 /1k
94/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauDuval County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · high59.5%
92/100Florida 34.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Poor or fair health · low12.4%
90/100Florida 19.6%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Food insecurity · low8.6%
89/100Florida 17.9%United States 15.6%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Physical inactivity · low17.3%
88/100Florida 25.5%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
7/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesDuval County value
Homicide rate · high10.4 /100k
8/100Florida 4.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDuval County value
Violent crime rate · high514 /100k
9/100Florida 261 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationDuval County value
Drought exposure · high82%
10/100Florida 78%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAADuval County value
Students per teacher · high19.1×
10/100Florida 18.3×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsDuval County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.486
11/100Florida 0.485United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
29.9% (2015-2019) → 45.1% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
4.3 /1k (2021) → 2.7 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−35%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$91,037 (2015-2019) → $120,698 (2020-2024)
+33%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
91.4% (2015-2019) → 95.6% (2020-2024)
+4.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.9% (2015-2019) → 27.8% (2020-2024)
+3.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
10.7% (2015-2019) → 7.0% (2020-2024)
−3.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Jacksonville Beach, Florida improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Household income+33%$91,037 → $120,698

Declined1

Rent burden+15 points29.9% → 45.1%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Jacksonville Beach, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.9 min2015-2019	23.7 min2020-2024	−0.2 min	Within the margin of error	50%
Bachelor's degree or higher	57.4%2015-2019	59.5%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	91.4%2015-2019	95.6%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Effective property tax rate	0.90%2015-2019	0.73%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	52%
High school diploma or higher	95.9%2015-2019	97.4%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Home price to income ratio	4.0×2015-2019	4.8×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	35%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4672015-2019	0.4862020-2024	+0.019	Within the margin of error	35%
Median household income	$91,0372015-2019	$120,6982020-2024	+33%	Improved	61%
Poverty rate	6.7%2015-2019	4.8%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Rent as share of income	23.9%2015-2019	27.8%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Rent-burdened households	29.9%2015-2019	45.1%2020-2024	+15 points	Declined	14%
Unemployment rate	2.4%2015-2019	1.8%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.1%2015-2019	9.2%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	58%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Jacksonville Beach, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Jacksonville Beach, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Jacksonville Beach, Florida itself moved −5.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

23,654 residents (±22)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

11,042 households (±544)

Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k8.7%†957
$25k–50k10%1,129
$50k–75k14%1,532

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

11,042 households (±544)

Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Florida share

Own69%7,602
Rent31%3,440

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

13,515 workers (±853)

Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone64%8,691
Carpool4.4%†588
Public transit0.1%†12

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Jacksonville, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Duval County, the county holding most of Jacksonville Beach's residents.

Duval County has 28,342 employer establishments, 272 for every 10,000 residents (1.10× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Florida's), with 508,104 paid employees at an average annual pay of $64,686. The Census Bureau also counts 112,432 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 28,342; 112,432 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 272; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 508,104
Average annual pay: $64,686; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Duval County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	2,570	24.7	1.18×About typical	31,685	$83,817	5,387
Specialty trade contractors	2,082	20	1.29×More than typical	22,401	$62,816	6,685
Restaurants and other eating places	1,901	18.2	0.99×About typical	38,992	$23,881	551
Lessors of real estate	1,510	14.5	1.18×About typical	5,784	$78,921	8,466
Offices of physicians	1,069	10.3	1.58×More than typical	15,764	$113,535	886
Services to buildings and dwellings	962	9.2	1.37×More than typical	8,338	$38,976	9,900
Construction of buildings	951	9.1	1.21×About typical	9,168	$104,946	3,946
Limited-service restaurants	911	8.7	1.09×About typical	17,961	$20,521	208
Management, scientific and technical consulting	839	8.1	1.20×About typical	4,813	$78,030	3,288
Truck transportation	835	8	1.59×More than typical	10,143	$60,015	4,950
Building finishing contractors	764	7.3	1.93×More than typical	3,344	$49,204	3,110
Full-service restaurants	751	7.2	0.94×About typical	18,126	$28,075	197

Rank places for an industry Open Duval County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,041,746 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $92.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Jacksonville Beach, Florida: $3.90 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $92.2K; +35% vs FY2025
Per resident: $3.90; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Bureau of Investigation$53K58%
Department of Veterans Affairs$39.1K42%

Top recipients

ACTUAL2, INC.$53K58%
HANGER PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS INC$39.1K42%

Spending by fiscal year

2.5MFY2017
44.6KFY2018
-282.1KFY2019
640.8KFY2020
4.5MFY2021
74.2KFY2022
159.7KFY2023
914.1FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$53K58%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$39.1K42%

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Jacksonville Beach, Florida

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ADVANCE ANALYST PROGRAM (ICAAP) CORE COURSE ON ILLICIT FINANCE FOR CERTIFICATION OF INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS.$109.9K
ACTUAL2, INC.· Duval County, FL· Education & social services· Jul 25, 2025 – Sep 2, 2026· 15F06725C0000811
LIMB$47.9K
HANGER PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS INC· Duval County, FL· Health & medical· Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2025· 36C24826P0126

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

Jacksonville Beach, Florida's figures are part of those of Duval County, FL ($2B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Jacksonville Beach is mostly in Duval County.

See federal money in Duval County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Jacksonville Beach, Florida is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Duval County46100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Jacksonville, FL55

Other cities and towns in Duval County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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