Miami vs Jacksonville: which should you move to?
Miami or Jacksonville? Housing, rent, crime, climate, income, taxes and transit, side by side, from each city's own published figures. Written for someone deciding where to live, not for a ranking.
Jacksonville
Both cities are in Florida and price in US dollars, so neither takes income tax, a single filer on $100,000 pays the same $13,449 in federal tax in each, and the homestead rules are the same. The difference is the house. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $4,404 a month on Miami's typical home and about $2,498 on Duval County's single-family median, and the $1,906 gap would be about $2,018 with Miami's payment priced at Jacksonville's September rate of 7.03% rather than August's 6.67%. That is roughly 80% of the City of Miami's median household income against 41% of Jacksonville's. On the same Zillow index Miami's typical home was $582,621 and Zillow's index for the City of Jacksonville stood at $285,103, about half of it. Crime runs the other way. On the FBI's counts for both, Jacksonville's violent rate was 518 per 100,000 on the FBI's population against Miami's 358.6, and its 80 homicides came to about 7.9 per 100,000 against 5.2; property crime was about level. Miami's January is 14.4 F warmer, and Miami has rail. Choose Miami for a 20.3 C January, Metrorail and the Metromover, the tighter job market and an airport seven times the size. Choose Jacksonville for a house local pay can carry, insurance budgeted at about half of Miami's, a short winter, and work at the port, on the railroads or with the Navy.
| Measure | Miami | Jacksonville | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 489,812 (2025) | 1,017,689 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 6,391,072 (2025) | 1,785,500 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Five-year growth Growth is pressure on rents and roads as much as it is opportunity, so it is reported without a winner. | 10.8% (2020-2025) | 7.2% (2020-2025) | Not directly comparable |
What a home costs in each
The figures the two cities' rent-versus-buy and mortgage calculators run on, read from the same tables.
| Measure | Miami | Jacksonville | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark home price MLS® HPI or equivalent benchmark. Lower is treated as the advantage, which is the buyer's view rather than the owner's. | $582,621 (June 2026) | $335,000 (August 2026) | Jacksonville |
| Detached house benchmark Miami and Jacksonville publish a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $582,621 | $335,000 | Jacksonville |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | Not published | $173,549 | Not directly comparable |
| Two-bedroom rent | $3,004/mo (median, June 2026) | $1,306/mo (median, September 2026) | Jacksonville |
| One-bedroom rent | $2,583/mo | $1,110/mo | Jacksonville |
| Two-bedroom rent against median income A year of two-bedroom rent as a share of the median household income below. A household paying the median rent out of the median income is a fiction, but it is the same fiction in both columns and it crosses currencies. | 54.3% of a year's income | 21.6% of a year's income | Jacksonville |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 30-year amortization on American monthly compounding, the convention in both. | $2,998/mo at 6.67% | $1,788/mo at 7.03% | Jacksonville |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 8.8× | 4.6× | Jacksonville |
| Property tax on the benchmark home The effective rate on market value, which is what the two rates have in common and what the Advantage column is decided on; the bills are in each city's own dollars. | $10,808/yr (1.855%, 2025) | $5,216/yr (1.557%, 2025) | Jacksonville |
| Transfer tax on the benchmark home Compared as a share of the price. Where the seller pays it, it is a cost of leaving rather than arriving. | $3,496 (seller pays) | $2,345 (seller pays) | Miami |
| Rent control A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better. | Forbidden by state law | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
Miami: About 1.86% of what you pay for the house, which is lower than the 19.9878 mills charged here, and the difference is Florida's homestead exemption rather than any assessment lag. The state assesses at full market value and a purchase resets the assessment to the price. What there is instead is an exemption: $25,000 of taxable value comes off for every taxing authority and a second slice comes off for all of them except the school district, which levies 6.4990 of the 19.9878. That second slice was $25,000 through the 2024 tax roll and has been adjusted for inflation every 1 January since, under the 2024 amendment to Article VII section 6 of the state constitution, so it is now somewhat more than $25,000. The figures here use the base amount, because the Department of Revenue sends the adjusted figure to the county property appraisers rather than publishing it. The difference is worth a few dollars a year on a bill, and the county property appraiser can tell you the amount in force. A homesteaded buyer's first-year bill is therefore about $10,808 on the $582,621 typical home value here. Miami runs its own fire department, so it pays none of the county's 2.3965-mill Fire Rescue district levy. One of only five municipalities in Miami-Dade in that position, and worth more than most municipal rates on this table. The exemption is not automatic: you file for it with the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser by 1 March of the year after you buy. The seller's tax bill is not a guide to yours. Save Our Homes caps a homesteaded property's assessed value at 3% growth a year, and that cap resets to full market value the January after the sale, so a long-tenured owner can be taxed on a fraction of what you will be taxed on for the same house. Ask the property appraiser what the assessment would be at your purchase price, not what the current bill is. Jacksonville: About 1.56% of the price for a homesteaded owner, worked out on the $335,000 Duval County single-family median, which is lower than the 17.7412 mills a house in the City of Jacksonville is charged because of Florida's homestead exemption rather than any assessment lag. Consolidation makes the stack short: the City of Jacksonville levies 11.1919 for county and city government together, Duval County Public Schools 6.3430 (3.0950 set by state law, 2.2480 by the school board and 1.0000 approved by voters in 2022), the St. Johns River Water Management District 0.1793 and the Florida Inland Navigation District 0.0270, which is every levy the property appraiser lists for the general services district for 2025. The school lines are charged on the price less $25,000, $310,000, and the rest on the price less a second slice as well, $285,000 on the base amounts, so a homesteaded buyer's first bill is about $5,215. Without a homestead, as a landlord or a buyer who never files, the same house owes $5,943. That second slice is indexed to inflation: the Department of Revenue published $25,722 for 2025 and the Duval property appraiser's estimator uses $26,411 for 2026, which brings the same bill to $5,199; this page uses the $25,000 base, like every Florida page on this site, and overstates the bill by $16 for it. The total was 17.8650 for 2024 and fell because the City cut its own rate from 11.3169. The school board's voted mill runs to 30 June 2027 and its renewal is on the 3 November 2026 ballot. The exemption is not automatic: you file with the property appraiser by 1 March of the year after you buy. The City's solid waste and stormwater fees come on the same bill, about $414 a year for a house in 2026, and no exemption reduces them. The seller's tax bill is not a guide to yours. Save Our Homes caps a homesteaded property's assessed value at 3% growth a year, and that cap resets to full market value the January after the sale, so a long-tenured owner can be taxed on a fraction of what you will be taxed on for the same house. Ask the property appraiser what the assessment would be at your purchase price, not what the current bill is.
How safe each city is, by the numbers it publishes
Police-reported figures for the most recent year each force or statistics agency has released. Rates describe a whole city or metro area, and the spread between neighbourhoods inside one city is usually wider than the gap between the two cities.
| Measure | Miami | Jacksonville | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index Statistics Canada's weighted index for the metropolitan area, where 100 is Canada in 2006. American cities have no equivalent series. | Not published | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Violent crime per 100,000 | 359 (2025) | 514 (2025) | Miami |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 2,241 (2025) | 2,154 (2025) | Jacksonville |
| Homicides Counts, not rates, and a single year in a small city moves a long way on chance alone. What each figure covers is under the table. | 26 (2025) | 80 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
FBI CDE counts for Miami PD show violent offenses falling from 2,245 in 2023 to 2,225 in 2024 and 1,787 in 2025 (a 20 percent one-year drop), property offenses from 13,928 to 11,178, and homicides from 61 in 2020 to 26 in 2025. Mid-2025 the department reported robberies down 17 percent and auto thefts down 37 percent against the first half of 2024.
What the rates cover: Miami Police Department (ORI FL0130600), FBI Crime Data Explorer NIBRS summarized data, 1,787 violent offenses in calendar 2025 against a CDE agency population of 498,792. 2024: 2,225 offenses, 483.1 per 100k. Miami PD moved to NIBRS mid 2022, so 2021 is blank and 2022 is a partial year in the CDE.
Homicides: Miami PD, FBI CDE: 26 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025, 5.2 per 100k. 2024: 29 (6.4 per 100k), 2023: 32 (7.1), 2020: 61 (12.8). Miami PD said in July 2025 the city might beat its record low of 24 set in 1946.
On the FBI's definitions, violent offenses in Jacksonville went from 6,496 in 2021 to 6,141 in 2022 and 6,513 in 2023, then fell to 5,680 in 2024 and 5,231 in 2025, 8% lower than in 2024 and 19% lower than in 2021. Property offenses rose from 23,968 in 2021 to a peak of 26,443 in 2024 and fell 17% in 2025 to 21,920. Motor vehicle theft drove the swing: 2,035 in 2021, 3,461 in 2024 and 2,036 in 2025, down 41% in the last year. In 2025 the CDE shows aggravated assaults down 7% (4,533 to 4,236), robberies down 16% (639 to 539), rapes down 16% (445 to 376), burglaries down 22% and larcenies down 12%, while murders rose from 63 to 80, the one violent measure that went up. The sheriff's office cleared 55% of 2025's murders against 73% of 2024's, as Action News Jax reported from JSO records. The 2025 CDE counts were read on 1 October 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.
What the rates cover: Computed: 5,231 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (ORI FL0160000) in calendar 2025, divided by the 1,017,689 Vintage 2025 city population. On the CDE's own agency population of 1,008,920 the rate is 518. The sheriff's office, formed when the city and county police merged in 1968, is responsible for law enforcement in the county; Jacksonville Beach has its own department. That is higher than Miami (359), Tampa (375.5) and Fort Worth (375), close to Boston (507) and below San Antonio (532), Dallas (577) and Houston (890).
Homicides: 80 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, against 63 in 2024, about 7.9 per 100,000 on the city population. The sheriff's office's own counts differ slightly by date and definition: Action News Jax, reading JSO records, reported 76 murders in 2025 against 63 in 2024, and News4JAX reported 79 murder cases in 2025 within more than 100 homicides of all kinds, including 11 fatal police shootings. The 2024 figure was the low point: News4JAX's count of 82 homicides of all kinds that year was the lowest in the 19 years it has kept one. The CDE series is 107 in 2021, 132 in 2022, 128 in 2023, 63 in 2024 and 80 in 2025.
Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house
| Measure | Miami | Jacksonville | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 20.3 °C | 12.3 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 28.9 °C | 28.1 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 1,712 mm | 1,356 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 0 cm | 0 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 3,154 hours | 2,880 hours | Miami |
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals at Miami International Airport (USW00012839): January mean 68.6 F, July 84.1 F (August is warmest at 84.2 F), annual mean 77.4 F, annual precipitation 67.41 in, snow 0. Sunshine about 3,154 hours a year comes from NOAA Comparative Climatic Data (older period), not the 1991-2020 normals. Hazards: hurricanes and storm surge, seasonal king tide and rainfall flooding, heat and humidity from May to October, frequent thunderstorms (roughly 80 thunder days a year).
Hazards: Hurricanes and storm surge every June to November, with chronic tidal and rain flooding; windstorm and separate NFIP or private flood cover are a real carrying cost and coastal home premiums commonly run $4,000 to $7,000 a year or more.
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for Jacksonville International Airport (station USW00013889), inside the city about 12 miles north of downtown beside the National Weather Service's Jacksonville office: January mean 54.2F, July mean 82.5F, annual mean 69.3F, 53.40 in of precipitation, 0.0 in of snow. July is the warmest month by less than half a degree over August (82.1F), with a mean high of 91.9F; January's mean low is 42.9F. June (7.60 in) and September (7.56 in) are the wettest months, and June through September bring 28.81 in, 54% of the year; November (2.00 in) is the driest. The normals count 80.1 days a year at 90F or above, 0.7 at 100F or above and 14.3 nights at or below freezing. Converted here to 12.3 C, 28.1 C, 1,356 mm and 0 cm. That makes Jacksonville the coolest in winter of the four Florida cities this site compares, 6.4 F below Orlando's January and 14.4 F below Miami's, and the second-wettest city here after Miami. Sunshine is the 1961-1990 NCDC figure Current Results lists for Jacksonville, 2,880 hours a year, 63% of possible, with 94 clear days, the same source and basis as the other US profiles; the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Hurricanes are the defining hazard, though direct hits are rare. Wikipedia counts one direct hurricane strike on Jacksonville since 1871: Dora, whose eye crossed St. Augustine on 10 September 1964 as a strong Category 2. Matthew passed about 37 miles offshore in October 2016, bringing storm surge, flooding along the ocean and the St. Johns River and outages for 250,000 people; the airport recorded 6.28 in (160 mm) of rain on 7 October. Irma, which passed about 75 miles to the west in September 2017, did the most damage of the recent storms, and it did it with water rather than wind. A local nor'easter had already raised water levels in the St. Johns basin before the storm arrived; storm surge, high astronomical tides and Irma's rain then pushed the river at the Main Street Bridge downtown to an all-time record crest of 5.57 ft (NAVD88) on 11 September, against Dora's 4.12 ft, and set records or major flood stage along the river and its creeks from Mayport to the Buckman Bridge (National Weather Service). Crews made about 350 water rescues, mostly in Downtown, Riverside and San Marco, where one evacuee reported water to his neck inside his home. The airport recorded 9.72 in (247 mm) of rain on 10 and 11 September and a gust of 86 mph (138 km/h); Wikipedia puts damage in Jacksonville at $85 million and counts five deaths in Duval County. Nor'easters are the routine coastal hazard: persistent northeast winds pile water into the river and the Intracoastal Waterway and bring tidal flooding and beach erosion without a tropical storm in sight, as in September and October 2025, when long-running local nor'easters brought coastal flood advisories and tidal flooding at high tide along the Atlantic coast, the Intracoastal Waterway and the St. Johns River basin (Florida Times-Union). Heat is long rather than extreme. The normals count 80.1 days a year at 90F or above but under one at 100F (37.8 C); 2025 had 113 days at 90F or above, the third-most since the airport's record began in 1938, and 2026 had 107 through 27 September, with three days at 100F or above in 2025. The station's highest reading is 105F (40.6 C), on 21 July 1942. Cold is brief but real: 14.3 freezing nights a year on the normals, 19 in the first months of 2026, and a record low of 7F (-13.9 C) on 21 January 1985. Measurable snow is rare enough to list: 1.5 in (3.8 cm) on 13 February 1958, 0.8 in on 23 December 1989 and 0.1 in on 22 January 2025.
What people earn and what the government takes
| Measure | Miami | Jacksonville | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $66,337 USD (2024) | $72,389 USD (2024) | Jacksonville |
| Unemployment rate | 3.0% (June 2026) | 4.9% (July 2026) | Miami |
| Sales tax | 7% | 7.5% | Miami |
| Top marginal income tax Federal plus provincial or state. The American figure leaves out payroll taxes and the cost of health insurance, both of which a Canadian household covers through the tax it pays here. | 37% | 37% | Even |
| Income tax on $100,000, single filer Miami and Jacksonville sit under one province's or state's income tax, so the two cells describe the same tax and any difference between them is one of method rather than of tax. Florida levies no income tax, so both cells are the federal bill on $100,000 and they agree to the dollar. The Advantage column is Even for that reason, and the essay below says the same thing. | $13,449 USD | $13,449 USD | Even |
Nonfarm employment in the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall metropolitan division was 1,351,000 in June 2026, up 8,800 (0.7 percent) over the year, led by education and health services (+6,100) and professional and business services (+4,800); Broward shed 5,000 jobs over the same period. MIA handled nearly 3.5 million tons of cargo in 2025, the most of any US airport.
Main sectors: Trade, transportation and logistics (port and airport), Tourism and hospitality, Finance and professional services, Health care and education, Real estate and construction.
No state or local income tax. Property tax and insurance are the taxes and costs that bite in Miami: homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes 3 percent assessment cap favour long-time owners over new buyers.
BLS counted 803,800 nonfarm jobs in the Jacksonville MSA in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up only 500 on the year, almost flat. Private education and health services grew fastest (+3.3%, to 139,800) and professional and business services next (+2.0%, to 120,100), while financial activities lost 4,400 jobs (-6.1%, to 67,800), finance and insurance alone 3,000, and information fell 8.2% to 13,400. Government shrank 2.5% to 77,900, almost all of it federal (-8.4%, from 20,300 to 18,600); BLS's payroll count does not include active-duty sailors. Trade, transportation and utilities is the largest sector at 170,000 jobs, and leisure and hospitality held at 93,900. The seasonally adjusted series (SMS12272600000000001) was 806,600 in August 2026, 0.4% above August 2025. JAXPORT moved 1,388,841 TEUs of containers in fiscal 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), up 4% on the year, 506,237 vehicles and 10.2 million tons of cargo, and says its cargo supports more than 258,800 jobs and $44 billion of annual economic impact in the region and state; a $250 million modernization of Blount Island's container and auto terminals was completed in 2025. The state's 2024 defense summary, on 2022 figures, puts defense spending in Duval County at $6.5 billion and its total impact at $9.1 billion, 68,060 jobs and 10.4% of the county's economy.
Main sectors: Port, rail and logistics: JAXPORT, Florida's No. 1 container port by volume (nearly 1.39 million TEUs and 506,237 vehicles in fiscal 2025), CSX and the Florida East Coast Railway, both headquartered in the city, and the shipping lines to Puerto Rico (Crowley, TOTE Maritime, Trailer Bridge), The Navy: Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the largest installation in Navy Region Southeast, Naval Station Mayport, home of the Fourth Fleet and 21 ships, and Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island; defense spending has a $9.1 billion total economic impact in Duval County, Finance, insurance and financial technology (FIS and Fidelity National Financial, both headquartered in the city, Florida Blue, and Deutsche Bank's second-largest US operation), a sector now shrinking, Health care (Mayo Clinic Florida, Baptist Health and Wolfson Children's Hospital, UF Health Jacksonville, St. Vincent's), the metro's fastest-growing large sector, Trade, transportation and utilities, the metro's largest sector by payroll jobs (170,000 in August 2026).
Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Florida's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 0.78%, and a homestead exemption takes as much as $50,000 off a permanent residence's taxable value, with the Save Our Homes limit on how fast its assessment can rise (Florida Department of Revenue). On 22 September 2026 the City Council adopted a $2 billion budget for fiscal 2027, 18 to 1, and kept the consolidated government's rate at 11.1919 mills, about $11.19 per $1,000 of taxable value, on a 16 to 3 vote; The four towns that kept their own governments pay a different city rate (7.9012 mills at the Beaches, 9.4208 in Baldwin). Council and mayor held the rate rather than cut it because of Amendment 3, the homestead property tax cut on Florida's 3 November 2026 ballot, which the city expects would open a revenue shortfall of about $300 million by 2028 if it passes, and tied some spending to its outcome (Jacksonville Today). School board and other levies on the same bill belong to the housing layer.
Whether you need a car
| Measure | Miami | Jacksonville | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Miami-Dade Transit (Metrorail, Metromover, Metrobus); Brightline and Tri-Rail regional rail | Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA): fixed-route buses (174 vehicles on 30 routes in 2026), the four-line First Coast Flyer bus rapid transit network (Green, Blue, Red and Orange lines, opened from December 2015 to 2021 and running every 20 minutes on weekdays), the fare-free 2.5-mile Skyway people mover with eight stations Downtown and on the Southbank (opened 1989), the NAVI autonomous shuttle on the 3.5-mile Bay Street corridor (opened June 2025), the St. Johns River Ferry between Mayport and Fort George Island, and Connexion paratransit. The Skyway is due to stop running on 2 November 2026 and NAVI on 1 January 2027. | Not directly comparable |
| Commute by public transit | 7.7% (2024) | 0.8% (2024) | Miami |
| Walk or cycle to work | 5.7% (2024) | 2.0% (2024) | Miami |
| Airport | Miami International Airport, MIA, 55.3 million passengers in 2025 (about 1 percent below 2024's record 55.9 million), per Miami-Dade Aviation Department release of May 4 2026 | Jacksonville International Airport (JAX), owned by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority about 12 miles north of downtown, handled 7,573,048 passengers in calendar 2025, 1.1% fewer than the 7,654,406 of 2024, by this file's sum of the authority's monthly traffic report; its fiscal year to September 2025 was 7,573,168, below the record 7,647,916 of the year before. American (27.6%) and Delta (27.1%) carried the most enplanements in the fiscal year to May 2026, ahead of United (15.1%) and Southwest (14.8%). That is about a third of Tampa International's 24.8 million. | Not directly comparable |
Miami-Dade Transit carried 80,797,500 unlinked trips in 2025 (APTA ridership report, as cited on Wikipedia): Metrorail 14,971,300, Metromover 7,683,800, the rest on Metrobus. Q4 2025 weekday averages: Metrorail 50,300, Metromover 25,600, system 259,400.
JTA carried 7,342,300 unlinked trips in 2025, 6,307,000 of them by bus, 413,600 on the ferry and 253,200 on the Skyway, and about 28,000 a weekday in the second quarter of 2026, 1,000 of them on the Skyway (APTA ridership reports, as cited by Wikipedia; APTA's PDFs refused the fetcher). That is less than HART's 11.9 million in Tampa and a third of LYNX's 22.2 million in Orlando, for a city two and a half to three times as large. The agency is in a financial crisis. Its board adopted a $139.2 million budget for fiscal 2027, down from $178 million, to close a projected $17.5 million gap, and in September interim CEO Cleveland Ferguson III, appointed on 27 August after Nathaniel Ford's 13 years in charge, said a $39 million hole meant up to 194 layoffs and a Saturday schedule on weekdays from 2 November, with the First Coast Flyer kept at every 20 minutes. The Skyway, whose original ten-car fleet is down to two working vehicles, will halt that day while JTA decides whether to rebuild it, replace it or turn the guideway into an elevated trail, the option most favored in its spring survey. The Ultimate Urban Circulator, JTA's plan since 2016 to replace the monorail with autonomous vehicles on the Skyway's beams and city streets at an estimated $400 million, has stalled: NAVI, its first phase, drew just over 100 riders a day in its first three months and 11,892 in all by early April 2026, and will stop on 1 January because the developer of its driving software is ending support (Jacksonville Today).
Health care, schools and what each city is like
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, and Florida has not expanded Medicaid, so the uninsured share runs above the national rate and emergency rooms carry the gap. Jackson Memorial, the public safety-net hospital with more than 1,500 licensed beds, is the teaching hospital of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Baptist Health South Florida, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Miami VA are the other large systems.
Education
Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the third largest district in the country but enrolled 313,220 students in 2025-26, down about 13,000 in a year as charters and vouchers grew, and the board approved school closures and consolidations in 2026. Florida International University enrolls roughly 50,000 students and the private University of Miami about 20,000; magnet programs such as Design and Architecture Senior High and the choice-heavy system mean school assignment is something families actively manage.
Living there
The city proper is dense, young and majority Hispanic, with Spanish as common as English in daily business, and it has grown almost 11 percent since 2020 on finance and tech arrivals who pushed rents and condo prices up fast. Summers are long, wet and hot, winters are the reason people stay, and every household budgets for hurricane season, windstorm insurance and flooded streets at king tide. Driving is the default outside the Metrorail and Metromover corridors, and traffic is the complaint residents raise most.
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Florida is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act; an organizing committee relaunched a ballot initiative to expand it in February 2026 (KFF). Florida's uninsured rate was 10.9% in 2024 (2,509,782 of 23,038,464), the sixth-highest of any state, against 8.2% nationally, on the ACS 2024 1-year estimates; the City of Jacksonville's was 10.1% (99,720 of 990,245), Duval County's 9.9% and the metro's 8.2%. UF Health Jacksonville, the University of Florida's academic hospital downtown with 695 beds and another 216 at UF Health North, is home to North Florida's Level I trauma center and carries the city's safety-net care: the fiscal 2027 city budget carries $56 million for its indigent care (Jacksonville Today). Mayo Clinic's Florida campus on the Southside, Mayo's first outside Rochester, opened in 1986 and has a hospital Wikipedia gives 304 beds, with an expansion to 428 announced for 2026. Baptist Health runs Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville and, beside it on the downtown riverfront, the 281-bed Wolfson Children's Hospital, the region's only Level I pediatric trauma center verified by the American College of Surgeons. This file did not verify a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.
Education
Duval County Public Schools, whose boundaries match the county's, has fallen below 100,000 students this fall for the first time in modern history, a 16% decline since 2015, when it had more than 115,000, as charter schools, homeschooling and state scholarships for private tuition grew (Action News Jax, 30 September 2026). It cut 115 teaching positions in September 2025 after a 1.9% drop in enrollment, closed several elementary schools that summer under its 2024 master facilities plan, and is consolidating four more in 2026-27, with two others delayed to 2027-28 and 2028-29. The University of North Florida, a public R2 research university founded in 1965 on the Southside, enrolled 16,575 students in 2024 (Florida Board of Governors). Jacksonville University, private, in Arlington, enrolled 4,247 in fall 2024 and has what Wikipedia calls the second-largest Naval ROTC program in the country. Florida State College at Jacksonville, the state college with campuses across the city, enrolled 23,556 students in 2024-25 (IPEDS, as compiled by UnivStats), 70% of them part time. Edward Waters University, founded in 1866, is the state's oldest historically Black college, and the city has committed $130 million to a new University of Florida graduate campus (Jacksonville Today).
Living there
Jacksonville is the largest city by land area in the contiguous United States, 747 square miles, because in 1968 it consolidated with Duval County and took in almost all of it; it is Florida's largest city by a wide margin and the eleventh-largest in the country, yet its metro is the smallest of the four Florida metros this site compares, and half the metro's growth since 2020 has been in St. Johns and Nassau counties rather than the city. The St. Johns River runs north through the middle of it to the Atlantic, and the river is both the economy and the risk: JAXPORT, Florida's busiest container port, and the Navy's bases at NAS Jacksonville and Mayport line it, and Irma in 2017 pushed it to its highest recorded level downtown. It is the coolest of the Florida cities here after Tallahassee, with real if brief winters, and hurricanes rarely hit it directly. It is built for the car: 70.9% of workers drive alone and 0.8% take transit, and the transit agency is cutting service, halting the Skyway and ending its autonomous shuttle in a budget crisis. Violent crime, at 514 per 100,000 on the FBI's counts, is higher than in Miami or Tampa. Household income, at $72,389, sits in the middle of the Florida cities, and Florida takes no income tax. The open questions are the transit agency's finances, a shrinking school district, the November 2026 homestead tax vote the city has budgeted against, and whether finance jobs, down 6.1% in a year, keep leaving.
Where each city wins, and where it loses
Both cities price in US dollars, so the figures net directly, though the two headlines are different instruments. Miami's is Zillow's typical home value for the city across all homes, $582,621 in June 2026, 0.7% below a year earlier. Jacksonville's is the Northeast Florida Association of REALTORS' median sale price of single-family homes in Duval County, $335,000 in August on 887 closed sales, 1.5% below the $340,000 of a year earlier; the association publishes no City of Jacksonville figure, and the city is 96% of the county's people. Zillow's index for the City of Jacksonville, the like-for-like figure, stood at $285,103 in August, 0.8% lower on the year, so Miami's typical home is about 2.0 times it and the gap is wider than the headlines show. Against local pay the headlines are 8.8 times the City of Miami's 2024 median household income of $66,337 and 4.6 times Jacksonville's $72,389. At 20% down, Miami's $466,097 loan at 6.67%, Freddie Mac's August rate, costs $2,998 a month, and the $268,000 loan on Duval County's median at 7.03%, the rate for 24 September, $1,788. A homesteaded buyer's first-year property tax is about $10,808 in Miami, 1.86% of the price on 19.9878 mills, against $5,215 in Jacksonville, 1.56% on 17.7412, and insurance is budgeted at $505 and $275 a month, neither including flood. The three lines come to about $4,404, or $4,516 at September's rate, and $2,498, roughly 80% and 41% of local median income; on Zillow's value for Jacksonville the carry would be about $2,158. Zillow's observed rent index, which the Florida layers use for a two-bedroom, was $3,004 in Miami in June 2026 and $1,601 in Jacksonville in August, about 54% and 27% of median income, and Apartment List's median two-bedroom in Jacksonville was $1,306 in September, with a one-bedroom at $1,110.
This is one of the pairs where the definitions match, since both cities' figures are the FBI's Crime Data Explorer counts, and on them Miami has the lower violent crime while property crime is about level. Miami Police submitted 1,787 violent offenses for 2025, 358.6 per 100,000 on the FBI's agency population of 498,792, and 11,178 property offenses, 2,240.8. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, formed when the city and county police merged in 1968, submitted 5,231 violent offenses, 514 per 100,000 on the Census estimate of 1,017,689 and 518 on the FBI's own population, the basis Miami's rate uses, and 21,920 property offenses, 2,154, or 2,173 on the FBI's population. Homicide is where the gap is widest: 80 in Jacksonville, about 7.9 per 100,000, against 26 in Miami, 5.2. Most lines are falling in both. Miami's violent offenses dropped 20% in 2025, from 2,225, and its homicides have come down from 61 in 2020. Jacksonville's violent offenses dropped 8%, to 19% below 2021, and its property offenses 17%, with motor vehicle theft down 41% in a year, but murders rose from 63 to 80, the one violent measure that went up, and the sheriff's office cleared 55% of them against 73% the year before. Miami's department moved to the FBI's incident-based system in mid-2022, so its series before 2023 is incomplete, and the Jacksonville counts were read on 1 October 2026 and can still be revised.
Miami has the warm winter, and the two summers are within a degree. January averages 20.3 C at Miami International against 12.3 C at Jacksonville International, 14.4 F cooler and the coolest of the four Florida cities this site compares, where the normals count 14.3 nights a year at or below freezing; July averages 28.9 C against 28.1 C. Miami gets 1,712 mm of rain a year and Jacksonville 1,356 mm, the second-wettest city here after Miami, 54% of it from June through September, and neither has snow in the normals, though Jacksonville's airport measured 0.1 in on 22 January 2025. On the older 1961-1990 series Miami records about 3,154 hours of sun and Jacksonville 2,880. Jacksonville's heat is long rather than extreme: 80.1 days a year at 90F or above on the normals, and 113 in 2025, the third-most since the airport's record began in 1938. The storms reach the two differently. Miami's are hurricanes and storm surge every June to November, with chronic tidal and rain flooding between them and roughly 80 thunder days a year. Jacksonville has had one direct hurricane strike since 1871, Dora in 1964, and it floods from the river: in September 2017 Irma passed about 75 miles to the west, a nor'easter had already raised the water, and surge, high tides and 9.72 in (247 mm) of rain over two days pushed the St. Johns River downtown to a record 5.57 ft, with about 350 water rescues, mostly in Downtown, Riverside and San Marco. Nor'easters are its routine coastal hazard, bringing tidal flooding along the ocean, the Intracoastal Waterway and the river without a tropical storm in sight, as in September and October 2025.
Miami's labor market is larger and tighter. On the same unadjusted basis BLS put July 2026 unemployment at 3.7% for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro and 4.9% for Jacksonville's, up from 4.3% a year earlier. The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall division alone had 1,351,000 nonfarm jobs in June, 0.7% more than a year earlier; the Jacksonville metro had 803,800 in August, only 500 more, almost flat, as private education and health services grew 3.3% and financial activities lost 6.1%. The two lean on different things. Miami's economy runs through the port, the airport, tourism, finance and health care, and MIA handled nearly 3.5 million tons of cargo in 2025, the most of any US airport. Jacksonville's runs on the river: JAXPORT, Florida's No. 1 container port by volume, moved nearly 1.39 million TEUs in fiscal 2025, CSX and the Florida East Coast Railway are headquartered in the city, and the Navy keeps Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Naval Station Mayport, home of the Fourth Fleet, on the river, with defense spending's total economic impact in Duval County put at $9.1 billion. Median household income was $66,337 in the City of Miami and $72,389 in Jacksonville in 2024, and $80,625 across greater Miami against $82,053 across the Jacksonville metro. Florida takes no income tax in either, so $100,000 pays the same $13,449 in federal tax for 2025. Sales tax is 7% in Miami-Dade against 7.5% in Duval. Property tax and insurance come to about $16,868 a year on Miami's typical home and $8,516 on Duval County's median.
Miami is the one of the two where a household can reasonably drop a car, and only along its corridors. In 2024, 7.7% of City of Miami workers commuted by transit and 5.7% walked or cycled, against 0.8% and 2.0% in Jacksonville, where 70.9% drove alone and the transit share is the second lowest of any city this site compares. Miami-Dade Transit carried 80,797,500 trips in 2025, 14,971,300 of them on Metrorail and 7,683,800 on the fare-free Metromover, and Brightline and Tri-Rail run regional trains. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority carried 7,342,300, about an eleventh as many for a city twice the size, on buses, the four-line First Coast Flyer bus rapid transit network, the St. Johns River Ferry and the Skyway, and it is cutting back: facing a $39 million hole, it plans up to 194 layoffs and a Saturday schedule on weekdays from 2 November 2026, keeping the Flyer every 20 minutes. Both cities built a downtown people mover, and they are going opposite ways. Miami's Metromover carried 7,683,800 riders in 2025. Jacksonville's 2.5-mile Skyway, its original ten-car fleet down to two working vehicles, carried 253,200 and stops on 2 November while JTA decides whether to rebuild it, replace it or turn the guideway into an elevated trail. MIA handled 55.3 million passengers in 2025 and is the direct gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean; Jacksonville International, about 12 miles north of downtown, handled 7,573,048.
Florida has not expanded Medicaid, so coverage in both runs through an employer or marketplace plan, Medicare or Medicaid. The state's uninsured rate was 10.9% in 2024, the sixth highest of any state, against 8.2% nationally; the City of Jacksonville's was 10.1%, and Miami's profile says only that the uninsured share there runs above the national rate. An organizing committee relaunched a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in February 2026. Each city has a public safety-net teaching hospital. Miami's is Jackson Memorial, with more than 1,500 licensed beds, the teaching hospital of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Jacksonville's is UF Health Jacksonville, the University of Florida's academic hospital downtown, with 695 beds and North Florida's Level I trauma center, for whose indigent care the city's fiscal 2027 budget carries $56 million; Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, Mayo's first outside Rochester, and Baptist Health's Wolfson Children's Hospital, the region's only Level I pediatric trauma center verified by the American College of Surgeons, are in the city too. Neither profile verified a wait time. The schools are shrinking in both. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the third largest district in the country, enrolled 313,220 in 2025-26, about 13,000 fewer as charters and vouchers grew, and approved closures in 2026. Duval County Public Schools has fallen below 100,000 students this fall for the first time in modern history, 16% fewer than in 2015, and is consolidating four more schools in 2026-27. Florida International University enrolls roughly 50,000 students and the University of Miami about 20,000; the University of North Florida enrolled 16,575 in 2024 and Florida State College at Jacksonville 23,556 in 2024-25.
What people underestimate is how much of the gap is insurance and tax rather than price, and what neither figure includes. Both cities run on the same Florida rules: $25,000 of taxable value comes off every levy for a homestead and a second slice off all but the school district's, Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessment at 3% a year and resets it on a sale, and the exemption has to be filed with the property appraiser by 1 March of the year after you buy. Without it the Duval median owes about $5,943. Jacksonville's bill is short because consolidation left one general levy, the City's 11.1919 mills for county and city government together, with the school district, the water management district and the inland navigation district on top. The City kept that rate for fiscal 2027 rather than cutting it because Amendment 3, the homestead tax cut on Florida's 3 November 2026 ballot, could open a shortfall of about $300 million by 2028, and the school board's voted mill is up for renewal the same day. The City also bills solid waste and stormwater fees on the tax bill, about $414 a year for a house in 2026, which no exemption reduces. Miami-Dade charges the seller a documentary stamp of 60 cents per $100 on a single-family house, about $3,496 on Miami's typical home, and Duval the state's 70 cents, about $2,345; the buyer pays 0.55% of the loan in both, about $2,564 and $1,474. Insurance is the larger difference: NerdWallet's averages put Jacksonville at $3,145 a year and Miami at $8,345, and neither carry here includes flood. From 1 January 2027 every Citizens Property Insurance homeowners policy with wind cover must carry flood as well, wherever the house is, and in Jacksonville the river sets the risk as much as the ocean. On the newer edges of Duval a community development district can add a bond assessment no millage shows, $4,225.50 for fiscal 2027 on a developed 50-foot lot in Normandy CDD.
Better here
- January averages 20.3 C with no snow on the 1991-2020 normals, against 12.3 C at Jacksonville International, which counts 14.3 freezing nights a year.
- Metro unemployment was 3.7% in July 2026, not seasonally adjusted, against 4.9% around Jacksonville on the same basis.
- In 2024, 7.7% of city workers commuted by transit and 5.7% walked or cycled, against 0.8% and 2.0% in Jacksonville, where 70.9% drove alone.
- Violent crime was 358.6 per 100,000 in 2025 on the FBI's counts, against 518 in Jacksonville on the same agency-population basis, and homicide 5.2 per 100,000 against about 7.9.
- MIA handled 55.3 million passengers in 2025 against 7,573,048 at Jacksonville International, and is the direct gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Sales tax is 7% in Miami-Dade against 7.5% in Duval, and Metrorail and the fare-free Metromover keep running while Jacksonville's Skyway stops on 2 November 2026.
Worse here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $4,404 a month on the June 2026 typical home, roughly 80% of the city's 2024 median household income, and about $4,516 at September's 7.03%, against $2,498 and 41% on Duval County's median.
- On the same Zillow index the typical home is about 2.0 times Zillow's value for the City of Jacksonville, and it is 8.8 times the city's median household income.
- Zillow's observed rent index was $3,004 in June 2026, about 54% of the city's median household income, against $1,601 in Jacksonville in August, about 27%.
- A homesteaded buyer's first-year property tax is about $10,808, 1.86% of the price, against $5,215 and 1.56% on Duval County's median.
- Insurance is budgeted at $505 a month against $275, before flood, and NerdWallet's averages put Miami at $8,345 a year against $3,145 in Jacksonville.
- City median household income was $66,337 in 2024, below Jacksonville's $72,389, and the metro's $80,625 below Jacksonville's $82,053.
Choose Miami if
- you want a January at 20.3 C and will pay windstorm and flood premiums to get it
- you can live along Metrorail or the Metromover and run the household on one car or none
- your work is in finance, trade with Latin America, the airport or tourism
- you want a hub airport with direct flights to Latin America and the Caribbean
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Better here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,498 a month on Duval County's August 2026 median, roughly 41% of the city's median household income, against about $4,404 and 80% in Miami.
- Zillow's observed rent index was $1,601 in August 2026 against $3,004 in Miami in June, and Apartment List's median two-bedroom was $1,306 in September and a one-bedroom $1,110.
- Home insurance is budgeted at $275 a month against $505, and NerdWallet's average is $3,145 a year against $8,345 in Miami.
- Property tax is about $5,215 a year with a homestead, 1.56% on 17.7412 mills, against $10,808 and 1.86% on Miami's typical home.
- City median household income was $72,389 in 2024 against $66,337 in Miami, and $82,053 across the metro against $80,625.
- JAXPORT, Florida's No. 1 container port by volume, CSX, the Florida East Coast Railway and the Navy's two bases, with a $9.1 billion total economic impact in Duval County, anchor work outside tourism.
Worse here
- Violent crime was 514 per 100,000 in 2025 on the FBI's counts, 518 on the FBI's own population, against Miami's 358.6, and the 80 homicides were about 7.9 per 100,000 against 5.2.
- Only 0.8% of workers commuted by transit in 2024 and 70.9% drove alone, and JTA plans up to 194 layoffs and a Saturday schedule on weekdays from 2 November 2026.
- Unemployment was 4.9% in July 2026, not seasonally adjusted, against 3.7% around Miami, and the metro added only 500 jobs in the year to August.
- January averages 12.3 C with 14.3 freezing nights a year, the coolest of the Florida cities this site compares, against 20.3 C in Miami.
- Jacksonville International handled 7,573,048 passengers in 2025, about a seventh of MIA's 55.3 million.
- Irma pushed the St. Johns River downtown to a record 5.57 ft in 2017, with about 350 water rescues, and the insurance figure here includes no flood cover.
Choose Jacksonville if
- you want a house that costs about two-fifths of local median income to hold rather than four-fifths
- you rent, and would pay about $1,601 on Zillow's index, or $1,306 for a median two-bedroom, rather than $3,004
- you work for the Navy, at the port, in rail and logistics, or in health care at Mayo Clinic, Baptist or UF Health
- you will drive anyway and would trade a 20.3 C January for a short winter and insurance at about half the price
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Miami or Jacksonville, in short
Is Miami or Jacksonville cheaper to live in?
Jacksonville, on the house, the rent and the insurance, by more than in most pairs. Both cities are in Florida and price in US dollars, so the figures net directly. Miami's typical home was $582,621 in June 2026 on Zillow's all-homes index, and Duval County's median single-family sale price $335,000 in August, a county figure because no city median is published; Zillow's index for the City of Jacksonville stood at $285,103. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $4,404 a month in Miami and $2,498 in Jacksonville, roughly 80% and 41% of local median income, and Miami's figure uses August's 6.67% rate against Jacksonville's 7.03%; at the same rate it would be about $4,516. Property tax is about $10,808 against $5,215 a year and insurance $505 against $275 a month, neither with flood cover. Renting shows the gap too: Zillow's observed rent index was $3,004 in Miami and $1,601 in Jacksonville. Jacksonville households also earn more, $72,389 against $66,337. Neither city levies income tax, and sales tax is 7% in Miami-Dade against 7.5% in Duval.
Is Miami or Jacksonville safer?
Miami, on violent crime and homicide, on the FBI's own counts for both. On the FBI's agency populations Miami recorded 358.6 violent offenses per 100,000 in 2025 and Jacksonville 518, or 514 on the Census estimate. Homicides were 26 in Miami, 5.2 per 100,000, and 80 in Jacksonville, about 7.9, up from 63 in 2024. Property crime was about level: 2,240.8 per 100,000 in Miami against 2,154 in Jacksonville. Both are improving on most lines. Miami's violent offenses fell 20% in 2025, Jacksonville's 8%, and Jacksonville's property offenses 17%, with motor vehicle theft down 41%. Miami's department moved to the FBI's incident-based system in mid-2022, so its earlier series is incomplete, and the Jacksonville counts, read on 1 October 2026, can still be revised.
Which has the better climate, Miami or Jacksonville?
Miami in winter; in summer they are within a degree. January averages 20.3 C in Miami and 12.3 C in Jacksonville, which counts 14.3 freezing nights a year and a record low of 7F (-13.9 C), and July 28.9 C against 28.1 C. Miami gets 1,712 mm of rain and Jacksonville 1,356 mm, more than half of it from June through September, and Miami has the more sun on the older series, about 3,154 hours against 2,880. Both face hurricanes from June to November. Miami's risk is surge and chronic tidal and rain flooding. Jacksonville has had one direct hurricane strike since 1871, but its river floods: Irma, passing about 75 miles to the west in 2017, helped push the St. Johns to a record 5.57 ft downtown, and nor'easters bring tidal flooding along the coast and the river without a tropical storm, as in September and October 2025.
With no income tax in either city, which has the lower tax bill?
Jacksonville, on the house, under the same Florida rules. A single filer on $100,000 pays the same $13,449 in federal tax for 2025 in both and nothing to the state. Sales tax favors Miami, 7% against 7.5%. Property tax favors Jacksonville: the City of Miami's total is 19.9878 mills and the City of Jacksonville's 17.7412, and on each city's headline price a homesteaded buyer pays about $10,808, 1.86%, against $5,215, 1.56%. The exemption is the same in both, $25,000 off every levy and a second slice off all but the school district's, filed by 1 March, and Save Our Homes resets on a sale in both, so the seller's bill is no guide. Jacksonville adds about $414 a year in City solid waste and stormwater fees on the same bill. Its City Council held the consolidated government's rate for fiscal 2027 because of Amendment 3, the homestead tax cut on the 3 November 2026 ballot, and the school board's voted mill is up for renewal that day, so the bill could change after these figures.
Where the figures come from
Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.
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- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00013889 Jacksonville International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Character, January 54.2F, July 82.5F, August 82.1F and the monthly highs, lows, rain and snow from the monthly series, and annual mean 69.3F, precipitation 53.40 in, snowfall 0.0 in, 80.1 days at 90F, 0.7 at 100F and 14.3 nights at freezing from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Jacksonville International Airport (USW00013889), 1938-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, 113 days at or above 90F in 2025 (after 116 in 1955 and 114 in 2011), 107 in 2026 through 27 September, three days at 100F or above in 2025, 105F on 21 July 1942, 7F on 21 January 1985, 19 freezing nights in 2026, 5.18 and 4.54 in on 10 and 11 September 2017, 6.28 in on 7 October 2016, snow of 1.5 in on 13 February 1958, 0.8 in on 23 December 1989 and 0.1 in on 22 January 2025
- Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data, 1961-1990) · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals
- Post Tropical Cyclone Report, Hurricane Irma (PSHJAX, issued 22 September 2017) · National Weather Service, Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character, St. Johns River at Main Street crest of 5.57 ft NAVD88 against Dora's 4.12 ft, the preceding nor'easter, about 350 water rescues in Duval County, 86 mph gust at the airport
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- ACS 2024 1-year tables B08301 and B19013 for Jacksonville city, Duval County and the Jacksonville MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year table B27001 (health insurance coverage) for the 50 states, DC, Duval County, Jacksonville city and the Jacksonville MSA, and for the US · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Jacksonville, FL MSA (LAUMT122726000000003), Jacksonville city (LAUCT123500000000003), Duval County (LAUCN120310000000003), Florida (LAUST120000000000003), the Tampa, Orlando and Miami MSAs and the US rate (LNU04000000), not seasonally adjusted · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
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- Jacksonville City Council approves $2B budget, restores affordable housing trust fund · Jacksonville Today · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Health care, Education, Character
- Template:American transit ridership (APTA Transit Ridership Reports, Q4 2025 and Q2 2026) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- Skyway (Jacksonville) (length, stations, fleet, fare, Ultimate Urban Circulator) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- First Coast Flyer (lines and opening dates) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system
- JTA begins first AV-powered service in U.S. · Mass Transit · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- Friday is deadline to give your views on Skyway options · Jacksonville Today · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- JTA studies Skyway options and postpones community meetings · Jacksonville Today · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- JTA raises fares and cuts services to make up for budget deficit · Jacksonville Today · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- Facing shortfall, JTA will cut jobs, reduce bus service and halt Skyway and NAVI · Jacksonville Today · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Character
- Traffic statistics, enplaned and deplaned passengers by month, fiscal years 2021/2022 to 2025/2026, and enplanements by airline (prepared 14 June 2026) · Jacksonville Aviation Authority · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- Jacksonville International Airport (location, ownership) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers, Climate normals
- Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions · KFF · retrieved Supports: Health care
- UF Health Jacksonville · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Mayo Clinic Florida · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Wolfson Children's Hospital · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Duval Schools enrollment down 16% since 2015, drops below 100K students · Action News Jax (via Yahoo News) · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- Duval Schools cutting 115 teacher positions due to falling enrollment · Action News Jax · retrieved Supports: Education
- Board approves delays in proposed school consolidations · Duval County Public Schools · retrieved Supports: Education
- State University System of Florida 2025-2026 Matrix · Florida Board of Governors · retrieved Supports: Education
- University of North Florida (founding, R2 classification) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Fast Facts, Fall 2024 · Jacksonville University · retrieved Supports: Education
- Jacksonville University (Naval ROTC) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Florida State College at Jacksonville Student Population and Demographics (IPEDS 2024-2025) · UnivStats · retrieved Supports: Education
- Duval County Public Schools (boundaries) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Florida State College at Jacksonville (campuses) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, mid-tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted: city file, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value for the 35th to 65th percentile of each municipality's market, computed on one method across all twenty-four, The same series and month the Charlotte, Orlando and Palm Beach pages use, so all four American layers can be read against each other, Year-over-year change to June 2026
- Table 1: Comparison of Taxes Levied, county and municipal governments, fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26: Miami-Dade · Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · retrieved Supports: The adopted 2025-26 millage rate for Miami-Dade County and every municipality in it, The county's own components: countywide 4.5740, Fire/Rescue 2.3965, Library 0.2812 and the Unincorporated Municipal Service Area at 1.9090, Municipal rates from Sunny Isles Beach's 1.7000 to Biscayne Park's 9.3000
- 2025 millage rates and taxing authorities, Miami-Dade County · Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: A published combined rate for unincorporated Miami-Dade of 16.9317 mills, Its components: school district 6.4990, countywide 5.7361, regional water districts 0.3911, Fire Rescue 2.3965 and UMSA 1.9090, which this layer's stack reproduces exactly, Millage code 0100, the City of Miami, at 19.9878 mills for 2025: 7.1080 of city operating levy and 0.2536 of city debt service on the countywide 12.6262, Opa-locka's municipal operating levy of 8.9797, and a 2025 total of 24.0024 for millage code 0800, A city debt service column, which nine of the twenty-four municipalities here carry: Miami 0.2536, Miami Beach 0.2779, North Bay Village 1.1666, Golden Beach 0.6000, Miami Shores 0.1331, North Miami Beach 0.2000, Miami Gardens 0.4331, Doral 0.4810 and Homestead 0.2446, A blank library district column for Hialeah, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Homestead, Miami Shores, Bal Harbour and Surfside, which are outside the county library district, A blank Fire Rescue column for Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah and Key Biscayne, which is the five this layer flags
- About Fire Rescue · Miami-Dade Fire Rescue · retrieved Supports: The Fire Rescue district covering the unincorporated county and twenty-nine municipalities, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah and Key Biscayne operating their own fire departments and lying outside the district
- Documentary stamp tax · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: A Miami-Dade deed rate of 60 cents per $100 rather than the 70 cents charged in every other county, A Miami-Dade surtax of 45 cents per $100, not due on a document transferring only a single-family dwelling, 35 cents per $100 on a promissory note, statewide
- Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 2020 to 2024 · United States Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program · retrieved Supports: 2020 census counts and 2024 estimates for each municipality, Miami at 487,014 and Hialeah at 235,388; Golden Beach at 1,034
- Average cost of home insurance in Florida, 2026 · MoneyGeek · retrieved Supports: A Miami-Dade County average of about $6,045 a year: below Palm Beach County's $6,614, A Florida average of about $3,815 and a national average of about $2,543
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey · Freddie Mac · retrieved Supports: 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.67%
- Governmental leasehold intangible personal property tax and the non-recurring intangible tax on mortgages · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: A non-recurring intangible tax of 2 mills: 0.2%, on the obligation secured by a mortgage on Florida real property
- Chapter 2023-17, Laws of Florida: preemption of rent control · The Florida Senate · retrieved Supports: The repeal of the referendum exception that had allowed a local rent control ordinance in a declared housing emergency
- Northeast Florida market shows signs of a more balanced housing environment (August 2026 market report) · Northeast Florida Association of REALTORS · retrieved Supports: A median price of single-family homes in Duval County of $335,000 in August 2026, the same as July, 887 closed sales, 965 pending sales, 1,265 new listings, an active inventory of 3,057 homes and a 3.4-month supply in Duval County, and a median of 25 days on market, A six-county single-family median of $397,420, down 1.6%, and a St. Johns County median of $573,250, Monthly figures by county only, with no City of Jacksonville figure
- Inventory climbs while sales cool in the August housing market (August 2025 market report) · Northeast Florida Association of REALTORS · retrieved Supports: A median price of single-family homes in Duval County of $340,000 in August 2025, 889 closed sales, an active inventory of 4,197 homes, a 4.7-month supply and a median of 38 days on market in Duval County
- Jacksonville's Consolidation Mayor: Hans G. Tanzler Jr. · Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 80 no. 2 (2001), via University of Central Florida STARS · retrieved Supports: Jacksonville's consolidation with Duval County on 1 October 1968
- 2025 Gazetteer files: places, Florida · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: A land area of 747.33 square miles and a water area of 127.129 square miles for Jacksonville city
- 2025 final millages · Office of the Property Appraiser, Duval County, Florida, via the City of Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: For the general services district (excluding the beaches and Baldwin) and for USD1, the old City of Jacksonville: schools 6.3430, general government 11.1919, urban service district 0.0000, St. Johns River Water Management District 0.1793 and Florida Inland Navigation District 0.0270, a final total of 17.7412, Jacksonville Beach (USD2) at 18.4452, Atlantic Beach (USD3) at 17.2004, Neptune Beach (USD4) at 17.8161 and Baldwin (USD5) at 18.9701, each with a general government rate of 7.9012 or 9.4208 and its own municipal levy, No bond millage for any authority
- 2024 final millages · Office of the Property Appraiser, Duval County, Florida, via the City of Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: For the general services district: schools 6.3400, general government 11.3169, St. Johns River Water Management District 0.1793 and Florida Inland Navigation District 0.0288, a final total of 17.8650
- Millage rates · Duval County Property Appraiser, via the City of Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: Taxing districts for Duval County: GS and USD1, City of Jacksonville; USD2, Jacksonville Beach; USD3, Atlantic Beach; USD4, Neptune Beach; USD5, Baldwin, Taxing authorities for Duval County: the county public schools, the Florida Inland Navigation District and the St. Johns River Water Management District, with the four other municipalities as additional taxing authorities
- Property tax estimator · Duval County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: For a $350,000 purchase in Jacksonville (GS or USD1) with homestead and no portability, tax roll 2026: a school taxable value of $325,000 and a non-school taxable value of $298,589, Lines of general government 11.1919, $3,341.78; public schools by state law 3.0950, $1,005.88; by local board 2.2480, $730.60; school board voted 1.0000, $325.00; Florida Inland Navigation District 0.0270, $8.06; and St. Johns River Water Management District 0.1793, $53.54; an estimated total of $5,464.86, A $25,000 exemption against the school lines and $51,411 against the others, The estimator using the most recently certified millage, and a final bill that may also carry non-ad valorem assessments for solid waste, stormwater and other services
- Additional homestead exemption adjustment, revised January 2025 · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Section 196.031(1)(b), Florida Statutes, requiring the additional homestead exemption to be adjusted annually by the Consumer Price Index from the 2025 tax year, A CPI change of 2.9% and a maximum additional exemption of $25,722 for 2025, against the $25,000 base year of 2024
- Property tax information for homestead exemption, PT-113, R. 08/25 · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: A $25,000 exemption against all taxes and an additional exemption of up to $25,000, adjusted annually for inflation, on assessed value over $50,000 for non-school taxes only, Applications on Form DR-501 to the county property appraiser by 1 March
- Homestead and other exemptions · Duval County Property Appraiser, via the City of Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: The Save Our Homes benefit limiting future annual increases in assessed value to 3% or less, removed on a sale, with the assessed value rising to market value for the next tax roll, Portability of the Save Our Homes benefit from a Florida homestead held in any of the three preceding tax roll years, on a separate application due by 1 March, Automatic annual renewal of the exemption
- Vote: 1-mill continuation, 3 November 2026 · Duval County Public Schools · retrieved Supports: Voters' approval of a 1-mill levy in 2022, and state law requiring voters to approve its continuation every four years, The ballot question on 3 November 2026 to continue the current one mill, A $300,000 home with $275,000 of taxable value paying $275 a year for the mill
- 2026 Voter's guide: Duval County referendum, extending 1-mill property tax funding for schools · News4JAX · retrieved Supports: The current authorization ending 30 June 2027, and the measure extending it from 1 July 2027 through 30 June 2031
- City fees · City of Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: Residential solid waste and stormwater fees billed as non-ad valorem assessments on property tax bills, Homestead and other ad valorem exemptions not applying to either fee
- Residential solid waste fee · City of Jacksonville, Solid Waste Division · retrieved Supports: A rate of $29.50 a month, $354 a year, per premise for 2026, and $32.00 a month, $384 a year, for 2027, subject to annual approval by the City Council, The fee collected as a non-ad valorem assessment on the property tax bill, and charged regardless of occupancy
- Frequently asked questions: stormwater fee · City of Jacksonville · retrieved Supports: A fee based on impervious area, $5 a month for the owner of an average single-family house
- Zillow Home Value Index, all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value of $285,103 for the city of Jacksonville (region 25290, Duval County) in August 2026, against $287,470 in August 2025, down 0.8%
- Zillow Home Value Index, single-family and condominium series, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical single-family value of $296,995 in the city of Jacksonville in August 2026, against $298,701 a year earlier, down 0.6%, A typical condominium value of $173,549 in the same month, against $186,154, down 6.8%, from the condominium file at https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/City_zhvi_uc_condo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv
- Jacksonville rent report, October 2026 · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: A median rent of $1,110 for a one-bedroom and $1,306 for a two-bedroom in the city of Jacksonville, and $1,321 across all bedroom sizes, Rents down 0.1% over September and up 0.7% over the past 12 months, against -1.2% for the state and -0.4% for the nation
- Apartments for rent in Jacksonville, FL: average rent · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: Average listed rents of $1,185 and up for a studio, $1,392 and up for one bedroom, $1,636 and up for two, and $1,904 and up for three or more
- Zillow Observed Rent Index, all homes plus multifamily, smoothed, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: An observed rent index of $1,601 for the city of Jacksonville in August 2026, against $1,569 a year earlier, up 2.04%
- Zillow Observed Rent Index, single-family homes, smoothed, by metro · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A single-family observed rent index of $2,075 for the Jacksonville metro area (region 394714) in August 2026, against $2,024 a year earlier
- Median household income, median home value and tenure, tables B19013, B25077 and B25003, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: A median household income of $72,389 in Jacksonville city, against $77,735 for Florida, $84,114 in Tampa, $77,597 in Orlando and $66,337 in Miami, A median owner-occupied home value of $325,300 in Jacksonville city, against $396,900 for Florida, 240,209 of Jacksonville's 413,620 occupied homes owner-occupied
- Monthly homeowners' association and condominium fee, tables B25142 and B25143, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Jacksonville city · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: 99,738 of 240,209 owner-occupied units, or 42%, paying a homeowners' association or condominium fee, A median monthly fee of $93 among them, and 7,399 paying $500 or more a month
- Rule 69O-186.003, Florida Administrative Code: title insurance rates · Florida Department of State, Florida Administrative Code · retrieved Supports: An owner's title insurance premium of $5.75 per $1,000 of liability to $100,000 and $5.00 per $1,000 from $100,000 to $1 million
- Best home insurance in Jacksonville, Florida (2026) · Insurify · retrieved Supports: An average Jacksonville premium of $3,471 a year for $300,000 of dwelling cover and a $1,000 deductible, against a national average of $2,417 for the same cover, updated 27 September 2026
- Florida homeowners insurance · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average Jacksonville premium of $3,145 a year, $262 a month, against $3,765 in Orlando, $3,470 in Clearwater and $8,345 in Miami, A Florida average of $3,390 a year, on a sample policy with $500,000 of dwelling cover and $300,000 of liability, updated 20 February 2026
- Renters insurance in Florida · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average Jacksonville renters premium of $179 a year, $15 a month
- Section 627.701, Florida Statutes: liability of insureds; hurricane deductibles · The Florida Legislature · retrieved Supports: An insurer offering hurricane deductibles of $500, 2%, 5% and 10% of the policy dwelling limits, with the $500 option not required at $250,000 of dwelling limits or more
- Flood: Citizens' flood insurance requirements · Citizens Property Insurance Corporation · retrieved Supports: Under section 627.715, Florida Statutes, most new and renewing Citizens personal residential policies with wind coverage required to carry flood insurance by 1 January 2027, Homes in a FEMA special flood hazard area required already; outside it, dwelling values of $600,000 or more from 2024, $500,000 from 2025, $400,000 from 2026 and all policies from 2027, Condominium unit-owner, tenant and wind-excluded policies exempt
- FloodSmart · Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Flood Insurance Program · retrieved Supports: Most homeowners insurance not covering flood damage, Almost one-third of National Flood Insurance Program claims, 29%, coming from outside high-risk flood areas
- Hurricane Irma brought record flooding to Jacksonville 5 years ago · News4JAX · retrieved Supports: Irma passing 100 miles west of Jacksonville early on 11 September 2017, and the river rising to a historical 5.57 feet when a rainband and 86 mph easterly gusts pushed water into the basin at high tide, Downtown streets flooded and homes in San Marco and across the city flooded, with businesses on both sides of the St. Johns River shut for months
- Hurricane Irma review: from violent Cat. 5 to record flooding · Action News Jax, First Alert Weather (Mike Buresh) · retrieved Supports: Riverside and San Marco with the worst flooding since at least 1846, A crest of 5.57 feet at the Main Street Bridge against a flood stage of 2 feet, major flooding at 3.5 feet and a previous record of 4.1 feet from Hurricane Dora in 1964
- Section 190.021, Florida Statutes: taxes; non-ad valorem assessments · The Florida Legislature · retrieved Supports: A community development district's benefit special assessments for bonds, levied annually, a lien on the property enforceable in like manner as county taxes
- Section 190.048, Florida Statutes: sale of real estate within a district; required disclosure to purchaser · The Florida Legislature · retrieved Supports: A boldfaced disclosure, in each contract for the initial sale of a parcel or residential unit in a district, that the district may impose taxes or assessments in addition to county and other local taxes
- Normandy Community Development District: about the CDD, and the fiscal 2027 final adopted budget · Normandy Community Development District · retrieved Supports: The district established by Ordinance 2022-117-E of the Jacksonville City Council, effective 24 March 2022, and about 641 acres entirely within Duval County, from https://www.normandycdd.org/about-the-cdd, For a developed 50-foot lot in fiscal 2027, operations and maintenance of $2,343.78 and Series 2024 debt service of $1,881.72, $4,225.50 in all, against $3,007.18 in fiscal 2026; a 40-foot lot at $3,380.40 and a 20-foot townhome at $1,690.20, Series 2024 bonds with annual debt service through 1 May 2054
- Bartram Park Community Development District · Bartram Park Community Development District · retrieved Supports: A community development district established in 2005 and located in Duval County
- SB 4-D (2022): Building Safety, chapter 2022-269, Laws of Florida · The Florida Senate · retrieved Supports: Milestone inspections required of condominium and cooperative associations, and a prohibition on waiving or reducing reserves for certain items after a specified date
- #AskJAXTDY: How will JEA's new electric and water rates affect me? · Jacksonville Today · retrieved Supports: JEA's electric rates up 6.2% and water and sewer rates up 8% from 1 October 2026, A residential electric bill for 1,000 kWh of $170.37 in April 2026, forecast to be $8.70 less in October, and a residential water and sewer bill for 6,000 gallons forecast at $83.50 in October
- Housing Services: Headstart to Homeownership program · City of Jacksonville, Housing and Community Development · retrieved Supports: Financial assistance of up to $25,000 for down payment and closing costs, subject to funding, Applicants who do not currently own a home, will live in it, and have household income no higher than 80% of the area median income for Duval County, Homes required to meet Section 8 Housing Quality Standards before closing, and applicants told not to sign a sales contract before approval
- Florida Hometown Heroes Housing Program · Florida Housing Finance Corporation · retrieved Supports: Down payment and closing cost assistance for first-time, income-qualified buyers in eligible occupations: health care, school staff, first responders, public safety and court employees, child care workers, service members and veterans employed full time by a Florida-based employer, Up to 5% of the first mortgage, a maximum of $35,000 and a minimum of $10,000, as a 0%, non-amortizing, 30-year deferred second mortgage that is not forgivable, An HTH 2026 program