Live in Baymeadows

Baymeadows is a district, not one neighborhood. This guide takes the area the Baymeadows Community Council filed with the City of Jacksonville, less gated Deerwood in its middle, which has a guide of its own: about 7,300 acres between Butler Boulevard on the north, Interstate 295 on the east and Philips Highway on the west, closed on the south by a line that follows no road for most of its length. Interstate 95 and Southside Boulevard cut through it. The City does not say it checks the lines organizations file. The 2020 census counted 33,985 residents on that ground, up 39% from 24,426 in 2010; the sources read here do not say which buildings the growth went into.

The Baymeadows Golf Club, a 500-acre private course with houses around it, opened in May 1968 beside the Deerwood development of 1960. Deerwood Village Mall followed in 1972, and Southside Boulevard reached Philips Highway about 1990. D.R. Horton bought and closed the course in 2005, planning 1,400 homes; building stalled and resumed in 2018, and the City Council adopted a Baymeadows Corridor action plan for the ground around Baymeadows Circle in 2012. Today it is mostly renters: 11,740 of the 16,359 occupied homes were rented in 2020, 72%, and 1,669 stood empty. Another 1,696 residents lived in group quarters, 1,615 of them counted in nursing facilities on three blocks this guide could not tie to named buildings, which is why no per-household figure is given here.

No price index follows the council's line, and the one nearest it fell. Every resident is in ZIP code 32256, where Zillow's typical value was $309,798 in August 2026, down 3.4% on the year; the ZIP held 53,611 people in 2020. Every address pays the city's same four levies, 17.7412 mills for 2025. A homesteaded buyer at the ZIP's figure owes about $4,768 a year on the base exemption amounts; a landlord, without the exemption, about $5,496, with the assessment capped at 10% a year rather than a homestead's 3%. At Duval County's $335,000 single-family median the homestead bill is about $5,215. Save Our Homes drops on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. No boundary layer for Duval's community development districts was found, so this guide cannot say whether a parcel pays one: read the non-ad valorem lines on the last bill. The arithmetic is on the Jacksonville page.

The water here comes down the creeks, not up the river. Pottsburg Creek, Second Puncheon Branch, Mill Dam Branch and Tiger Hole Swamp run through the area, and FEMA's effective map of 2013 puts 16.2% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, with 5,266 residents on those blocks and 827 more in the 0.2% zone. The preliminary maps of May 2025 touch only 2.7% of it. JaxReady puts the reference point and 31,308 residents in no evacuation zone: a lower surge risk, not no flood risk. Irma brought record river flooding downtown in 2017; the reports read here describe trees down to Baymeadows and a gas station awning torn off at Philips Highway. A homeowners policy does not cover rising water.

The City keeps no park inside the line. The nearest, 9A/Baymeadows Regional Park and the Deerwood Rotary Children's Park, are across Interstate 295. The Brooks Family YMCA and the Southeast Regional Library are inside, and Route 23 stops on Baymeadows Road 0.14 km from the reference point, but it runs every 60 minutes from 2 November 2026. The one bus every 20 minutes, the First Coast Flyer Blue Line, runs on Philips Highway at the western edge.