Downtown, Springfield, the Eastside and Durkeeville

This area is our grouping, not a line the City draws, though three of its four guides follow one. Downtown is the City's Downtown Community Redevelopment Area, all three parts of it, 2,505 acres on both banks of the St. Johns from LaVilla and Brooklyn to the stadium and across the river to the Southbank, with City Hall in the St. James Building, the Florida Theatre, James Weldon Johnson Park, VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena and EverBank Stadium inside. The guide counted 8,567 residents in 2020, and about a third of them, 2,721, are on the one block that holds the Pre-Trial Detention Facility; seven blocks that read as group quarters, the jail's among them, hold 3,792, so a per-household figure there uses the 4,588 on the other blocks. North of downtown and east of Interstate 95, Springfield is the City's local historic district of that name, 517 acres and 3,768 residents, with the National Register's Springfield district over 3,521 of them; Klutho Park is just outside its line. The Eastside is the action plan area the City Council adopted as East Jax, 2,772 residents east of downtown and north of the stadium, most of them in the National Register's Eastside Historic District; the guide uses the name residents and the National Register use. Durkeeville, west of Interstate 95, is the area its neighborhood association filed with the City, 6,392 residents around Edward Waters University and the Durkee Gardens historic district. 4 guides are listed below.

The tax arithmetic is the same here as everywhere else in the city. Every address is Duval County Public Schools, the only school district in the county, and inside the consolidated City of Jacksonville, so the levies on a homesteaded bill, the City's, the school board's, the St. Johns River Water Management District's and the Florida Inland Navigation District's, are the same in each guide; what differs is the non-ad valorem assessments, which were not read here and have to be checked on the parcel's bill. The Downtown Community Redevelopment Area is tax increment financing and adds no rate, and whether a downtown parcel also pays a business improvement district assessment was not checked. Springfield is a City local historic district, so exterior work there goes through the City's historic preservation review; the rules were not read here, so ask the City before planning any. And the river sets the flood risk. On 11 September 2017 Hurricane Irma, passing a hundred miles west, pushed the St. Johns to 5.57 feet at the Main Street Bridge, more than a foot above the 1964 record, and downtown streets flooded. A Florida homeowners policy covers wind and not rising water, so FEMA's flood map for the exact address and a quote for a separate flood policy belong in the offer.