Indianhead Acres off Lafayette Street, Piney-Z and Buck Lake by Lake Lafayette, and Southwood
The city south of Mahan Drive on both sides of Apalachee Parkway: Indianhead Acres off Lafayette Street, Piney-Z and Buck Lake by Lake Lafayette, and Southwood.
Photograph: Central Park Lake · The Bushranger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · sourceEast and Southeast is the rest of the city: south of Mahan Drive and east of the Multimodal Transportation District and the Southside line, on both sides of Apalachee Parkway, out past Capital Circle to the city's eastern edge and down to Southwood, 35,801 residents and 17,725 housing units in 2020. Every guide here is an association's own area on the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS layer of homeowner and neighborhood associations, clipped to the City limits, so its line is one an association filed rather than one the City drew. Indianhead Acres is the Indianhead-Lehigh association's area, which takes in the Lehigh subdivision too, 1,543 residents on 539 acres beside Old St. Augustine Road, a canopy road, 85 of them inside the Multimodal Transportation District. Piney-Z, which its homeowners association writes "Piney Z", is 1,668 residents on 295 acres. Buck Lake is the city's share of the Bucklake Alliance, an umbrella over many homeowners associations, less Piney-Z's area: 5,721 residents on 4,898 acres, of whom about 850 are on one block beside the federal prison, FCI Tallahassee. Southwood, the Southwood Residential Community Association's area, is 4,821 residents on 1,275 acres, a Development of Regional Impact approved for 1,675 dwelling units. 4 guides are listed below.
Buck Lake's line takes in Tom Brown Park, much of Lake Lafayette and industrial and public land, so a density for it means nothing, and the alliance's own 23,125 acres run far outside the city, where 11,222 more residents of its area live who are not counted here. On the County's FEMA layer Southwood has 650 residents in zone A by block, Indianhead Acres 91, most of them on a floodway block, and Buck Lake 49; Piney-Z has none. The EF2 tornado of 10 May 2024 left tree damage between the Capital City Country Club and Indianhead Acres. The bus thins out here too: the nearest stop to Southwood is on StarMetro's SouthWood route, which runs at the weekday peaks only, and Buck Lake's point is 2.8 kilometers from a stop although ten served stops are inside its line. A Florida homeowners policy covers wind and not rising water, so FEMA's flood map for the exact address, the elevation certificate, the seller's disclosure of past flooding and a quote for a separate flood policy belong in any offer here.
4 communities, guide by guide
Buck Lake
The city's share of the Bucklake Alliance's area east of Capital Circle Northeast between Mahan Drive and Conner Boulevard, about 4,900 acres and 5,700 residents in 2020, about 850 of them at the federal prison, with Tom Brown Park, Lafayette Heritage Trail Park, the J.R. Alford Greenway, Buck Lake Elementary and Swift Creek Middle School inside.
- 5,721
- Residents of the 91 census blocks inside the city's share of the Bucklake Alliance's area, on 1,811 housing units; 853 of them were on one block with no housing units beside FCI Tallahassee, the federal prison, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 4,898 acres
- Of the alliance's 23,125 acres that lie inside the City limits, less Piney Z's area; 11,222 more residents of the alliance's area live outside the city, Tallahassee-Leon County GIS, layer edited 2 September 2026
Indianhead Acres
The Indianhead-Lehigh Neighborhood Association's area between East Lafayette Street, Orange Avenue, South Magnolia Drive and Jim Lee Road, 539 acres and 1,543 residents in 2020, on streets that end in Nene, with Indian Head Acres Park and Hartsfield Elementary inside.
- 1,543
- Residents of the 34 census blocks inside the association's line and the City limits, in 766 housing units, 2.01 people to a home, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1958
- Year the City's annexation history layer gives for 82% of the 539 acres; 7% came in 1952 and the last 10% in 1964, Tallahassee-Leon County GIS, read 2026
Piney-Z
The Piney Z Homeowners Association's 295 acres off Conner Boulevard beside Piney Z Lake, part of Lake Lafayette, about 1,670 residents in 2020 in the Piney-Z neighborhood off Heritage Park Boulevard and Piney Z Plantation Road.
- 1,668
- Residents of the 19 census blocks inside the Piney Z Homeowners Association's mapped area and the City limits, in 730 housing units, 2.28 people a home, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- $670
- The Piney-Z Community Development District's assessment on each of its 755 homes for the fiscal year starting October 2026, collected on the property tax bill, up 28.1% from $523, Piney-Z Community Development District adopted budget, 2026
Southwood
The Southwood Residential Community Association's 1,275 acres south of Orange Avenue, the planned community around Four Oaks Boulevard, about 4,800 residents in 2020 on 1,896 housing units.
- 4,821
- Residents of the 115 census blocks inside the SouthWood Residential Community Association's area, on 1,896 housing units, 2.54 people to a unit, with no dormitory or prison block, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- $299 to $683
- The Capital Region Community Development District's operating assessment on a single-family lot for the year from 1 October 2026, by lot width, collected on the property tax bill; bond debt assessments come on top in financed sections, Capital Region CDD adopted budget, 2026
Photographs: Lake Leon in Tom Brown Park by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Lake Leon at Tom Brown Park by Adam LaMee, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Canopy Walkway by The Bushranger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.