Live in Woodland Acres

Woodland Acres is an old plat with mid-century houses on it. Walter C. Warrington, a former city councilman, laid it out in 1910 as Oakwood Villa Estates, on ground that had held a strawberry plantation and mill in the late 19th century, but most of it was built between 1940 and 1960. The elementary school went up in 1956, and in 1958 the park the Warringtons had given to the county opened beside it. Regency Square Mall followed in 1967, just east of Southside Boulevard, and in 1977 Kona Skatepark opened on Kona Avenue, inside the line; Guinness World Records lists it as the oldest surviving commercial skatepark.

The line is a City plan's, and the City's records disagree about which one. This guide takes the Woodland Acres neighborhood action plan area on the City's layer: 733 acres bounded by the Arlington Expressway, Southside Boulevard and the Southside Connector, Atlantic Boulevard and North Arlington Road. The layer labels it 2007, ordinance 2007-0492-E, but the City's own list of adopted plans gives the Woodland Acres Neighborhood Plan as ordinance 1979-0129, whose larger area contains all of this one. The association that filed the same ground with the City is marked inactive. Applications for new development in a plan area are reviewed against the plan, so ask the City which plan applies before you build.

It is a renter's neighborhood with a lot of children. The 2020 census counted 6,408 residents and 2,662 homes, up from 5,443 residents on about the same ground in 2010; 30% of them were under 18, and renters held 1,807 of the 2,389 occupied homes, so owners lived in 24%. No price index follows the line. Every resident is in ZIP code 32211, where Zillow's typical value was $248,107 in August 2026, up 0.8% on the year, but the ZIP held 34,168 people in 2020. On the City's 17.7412 mills for 2025, a homestead at the ZIP's figure would owe about $3,673 a year, the same house held by a landlord about $4,402, 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 flood question comes first. Strawberry Creek crosses the neighborhood for about 2.1 km on FEMA's map, with its tributary and Red Bay Branch. The effective map puts 17.5% of the area in the 1% annual chance flood zone, 6.4% of it floodway, and 1,422 residents on blocks inside it; JaxReady puts 1,612 residents in evacuation zone A, the first called, and 2,350 more in zone C, the reference point among them. Whether Hurricane Irma's water in 2017 reached these streets, the sources read here do not say. A homeowners policy does not cover flood; that is a separate policy, and its quote belongs in the offer.

The bus through the middle is going. JTA's Route 18 stops about 0.1 km from the reference point, and JTA lists it as eliminated from October 2026 for low ridership, sending riders to Routes 19 and 202 and a modified Route 10. The First Coast Flyer Red Line, every 20 minutes on weekdays, stops on the Arlington Expressway at Arlington Road, about 1.38 km away in a straight line.