Live in East Arlington

This East Arlington is smaller than the one people mean. Residents use the name for the whole east side out to the Intracoastal Waterway, an area the Communities of East Arlington filed with the City at 19,980 acres and 55,031 people. This guide is the Arlington East Neighborhood Association's filed area: 1,526 acres bounded by Atlantic Boulevard on the north, St. Johns Bluff Road South on the east, Beach Boulevard on the south and Anniston Road on the west, with the Interstate 295 East Beltway touching its eastern edge. The City draws no line of its own here, and the layer that holds the association's does not say the City checked it.

Its history is the history of Arlington after the bridge. Atlantic Boulevard, now the northern edge, was finished in 1910 as Florida's first modern improved highway, but the land filled in after the Mathews Bridge opened in 1953. The Brookview subdivision was platted that year; the school board bought 14.6 acres off McAleer Road in 1957 and opened Brookview Elementary in 1962, and the rest of the tract became the City park where the Arlington East Athletic Association, incorporated in 1982, has played youth baseball ever since. Regency Square Mall opened north of Atlantic Boulevard in 1967. The beltway closed its loop in 2006 and became Interstate 295 in 2011.

It is a renter's neighborhood as much as an owner's. The 2020 census counted 5,371 residents and 2,230 homes inside the line, up from 4,659 residents on about the same ground in 2010, and renters held 1,081 of the 2,094 occupied homes; owners lived in 48%. No price index follows the line. Every resident is in ZIP code 32246, where Zillow's typical value was $314,439 in August 2026, down 1.5% on the year, but the ZIP held 58,105 people in 2020. On the City's 17.7412 mills for 2025, a homestead at the ZIP's figure would owe about $4,850 a year, the same house held by a landlord about $5,579, and a homestead at Duval County's $335,000 median about $5,215. Save Our Homes resets on sale, so the seller's bill is not yours. No community development district was found here, but read the seller's last tax bill anyway. The arithmetic is on the Jacksonville page.

The school question is the one to settle first. Brookview Elementary is inside the line and Kernan Middle takes every resident. But Sandalwood High, graded A for 2026, sits about 2.3 km east of the reference point and is the zoned high school for only 14 of the residents. For 2026-27 the district's zones send the other 5,357 to Englewood High, about 8 km west in a straight line, graded C; for 2027-28 they move the same residents to Terry Parker High, about 5.4 km north-west, also graded C. A family buying now will see both schools in two years, and the school year has to be named when the district is asked.

The flood map draws three creeks, and the river is far off. FEMA's effective map puts 15.2% of the area in the 1% annual chance flood zone, along Jones Creek, its first tributary and Ginhouse Creek, with 621 residents on blocks inside it and 413 more in the 0.2% zone; the reference point is in zone X. FEMA's preliminary revision of May 2025 covers two thirds of the guide and changes little on the same ground. JaxReady puts every resident outside its evacuation zones, which means less surge risk, not none. Flood insurance is a separate policy from a homeowners policy.