Cost of Living In Jacksonville Florida

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Today’s blog post is about the cost of living in Jacksonville Florida. If you prefer videos, I got ya covered above. I’m This is a park close to Roosevelt Blvd in Jacksonville also going to cover St. John’s and Clay counties as well. From housing costs, to employment info, cost of some food items and more. Let’s dive in! First let’s talk about the median sales price in 2020. Just in case you’re wondering I’m writing this in November 2020.

Median sales price-

Jacksonville– 220k

St Johns– 351k

Clay County– 235K

Median rental prices– From our MLS residential homes

Jacksonville– 1345

St Johns– 1895

Clay County– 1455

Average rentals– apartments

Jacksonville– 1109

St Johns– 1,303

Clay County– 1150

Let’s go back to housing. I get asked all the time what the property taxes are here in Jacksonville, which isn’t a simple answer. So, I’ll give you an example. This will be based on If you homestead your property, which means you claim it to be your primary home, the house you live in. If I.m basing it on a 200k house, you can expect to pay somewhere around 2700-3000 in taxes each year. That number can be different based on exemptions you qualify for and can go up each year. That’s a whole other beast that I won’t go over in this post, but I will include the links below.

Jacksonville Property Appraisers

St Johns County Property Appraisers

Clay County Property Appraisers

Let’s talk about income and the job market briefly.

Median Income-

Jacksonville– 65,880

St Johns– 90,356

Clay County– 62,653 (could only find 2018 numbers)

Jacksonville’s unemployment rate for 2019 was 2.6%, which is below the national average. Go Jacksonville!!! As of September 2020 it’s up to 5.5%. Covid related, I’m sure. Still below the national average.

We have a lot of big name employers here. CSX, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Mayo Clinic, Citi bank, Amazon, who currently operates 4 facilities here in Jax, plus looking to add 2 more. Wayfair is coming towards the end if 2020 and we have amazing healthcare jobs available. St Vincents and Baptist hospitals to name a couple. Baptist will be adding 700 jobs in Fleming Island when they add to their ER there.

You may have heard we have a NFL football team. Pretty sweet right? We’ll skip over their win loss record for now, but based on what my facebook newsfeed is showing lately, in between the angry cries, we have a very personable quarterback, who is winning the hearts of the jag fans again.

I left the best for last and that’s our awesome military presence in the area. Nas Jax and Mayport, we got the coast guard, the reserve, national guard, marines. No one is gonna mess with us! I appreciate their service and am glad to live in a military area.

We have no state income tax, less tax filing.

No sales tax on certain food in the grocery store.

Our gas prices are running around $1.99, which is what I’ve seen in Orange Park and parts of Jax.

Bread is about 2.58 a loaf

Eggs are @ 2.50 for 36 eggs

Milk is about 2.57 a gallon.

I’m a chuck eye kinda gal, which runs about $8.98 a pound

We still have toilet paper around here, but saw some bare shelves. People!! What’s with the stockpiling of toilet paper???

Next, I’ll share my utilities with you. Well, at least what they run me. 🙂

My cable, internet and home phone runs about $198 a month. Yes, I have a home phone. I don’t even know my number. I only got it, because it was cheaper that way. Go figure. My water runs about $60-$70 a month, electric is all over the place, but lowest can be around 100, highest was I believe under 200. I know, that’s vague. It was summer time.

Last thing to add is daycare costs. So many different prices, but I found infants can run about $170-$220 a week. Could be more or less. Before and after school care can run between $95-$120, again it could be more, could be less. Sooo expensive these days. I’m glad to be out of that stage!

If you’re looking to move to Jacksonville and got questions, call or text me at 904-910-3516. See below for free guides and links to search for homes in Jacksonville.

Are you a home owner in Jacksonville and wondering what the home values are like in Jacksonville? Check out What’s my Jacksonville Florida Home Worth?