Live in Allendale

Allendale was a citrus grove. Cade B. Allen bought Foster Grove, 160 acres, for $186,000, and between 1922 and 1954 built about 40 houses on it and around it, in Creative Loafing's account; he died in 1959. The City has since put six houses inside this guide's line on its register of historic places: the Ainsworth House and the Almon Jones-Jay Black House on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North in 2004, the Cade Allen Residence on Foster Hill Drive in 2014, the Acheson-Mackey Residence in 2015, the Foster Grove House on Foster Hill Drive in 2018, and the Frank Broadfield House on 39th Avenue North. Allen's 40 are a small part of the 1,127 homes the 2020 census counted here, and the sources read for this guide do not date the rest.

No one association is Allendale. The City's map gives the name to four, the Allendale Neighborhood Association, Allendale Oaks, Allendale Terrace and Allendale Terrace Neighbors United, and their filed areas overlap, so this guide takes them together and counts each block once: 335 acres between 4th Street North and Haines Road, from about 46th Avenue North down to 38th, with a pocket south to 34th around Allendale Park. The census counted 2,263 residents there in 2020, 1,994 of them in City Council District 3 and 269 in District 4. These are lines the associations filed, not ones the City drew.

The landmarks are reviewed; the streets are not. A designated landmark needs the City's certificate of appropriateness, reviewed by its historic preservation staff, before changes, and the City says designation protects against unnecessary demolition and unsympathetic alterations. But no local historic district touches the line, so the other houses on the same streets face no such review.

The water is the difference from the bay. FEMA's effective map of 2021 puts none of Allendale in its 1% annual chance flood zone; 13.2% of it, with 371 residents, is in the 0.2% zone, and the reference point is in zone X. The parcel at the point is in the County's evacuation zone E, the last called. On 26 September 2024 Hurricane Helene pushed St. Petersburg's tide gauge to about 6.3 feet; here the City assessed 15 parcels and recorded no damage and no water in any of them. Milton, two weeks later, brought 21 assessments, six with major damage and none with water inside. A homeowners policy still excludes flood, and from 1 January 2027 every Citizens policy with wind cover must carry flood too, wherever the house is.

The price is the ZIP's, not Allendale's. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 33703, where 1,967 of the residents live, was $398,232 in August 2026, down 2.7%, and the ZIP also holds Shore Acres; the other 296, and the reference point, are in 33704 at $735,185, a figure set by the Old Northeast and Snell Isle. For the whole city the figure was $355,759 in June 2026. Every address pays 19.9197 mills for 2025. Florida takes $25,000 off the value for every levy and a second slice, $25,000 before its yearly inflation adjustment, off all but the school board's, so a homestead at the 33703 figure owes about $7,094 a year and a landlord about $7,933. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and ends with the sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. The City's stormwater fee, $12.67 to $59.08 a month from 1 October 2026, comes on the utility bill. The arithmetic is on the St. Petersburg page.

Day to day Allendale is 4th Street North: PSTA's Route 4 runs every 15 minutes at midday at 38th Avenue, the Publix at 4th Street Station is about 0.6 km away, and downtown is about 4 km south. PSTA's schedule changes on 4 October 2026.