Betton Hills and Waverly Hills off Thomasville and Meridian Roads, out to Killearn Estates and Ox Bottom Manor
The city east of Monroe Street and north of Tennessee Street and Mahan Drive: Betton Hills and Waverly Hills off Thomasville and Meridian Roads, out past Interstate 10 to Killearn Estates and Ox Bottom Manor.
Photograph: the reflection pool at Maclay Gardens State Park, about 4 km south, not a photograph of Ox Bottom Manor · Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
The Northeast is our name for the city east of Monroe Street and north of Tennessee Street and Mahan Drive, outside the Multimodal Transportation District, out past Interstate 10 to the city's northern line, 50,573 residents and 23,151 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. Killearn Estates is the Killearn Homes Association's area, 7,179 residents on 1,880 acres, the largest guide in the city; Killearn Lakes Plantation, north of the city line, is a different subdivision in unincorporated Leon County, and none of its residents is counted here. Ox Bottom Manor is a subdivision of 1,931 residents on 692 acres, and most of the wider Ox Bottom area is outside the city. Betton Hills is 1,151 residents on 477 acres, 396 of them in the northern tip of the Multimodal Transportation District, and Waverly Hills 809 on 289 acres. 4 guides are listed below.
Canopy roads run through this area: Centerville Road along Killearn Estates and Betton Hills, and North Meridian Road along Waverly Hills and Ox Bottom Manor, each with a 100-foot protection zone the County's layer draws for planning purposes, and no guide's residents live inside one by block. On the County's FEMA layer 573 of Killearn Estates' residents are in a flood zone by block, most of them in zone AE around its lakes. The bus thins out: the nearest stop to Killearn Estates and Ox Bottom Manor is on StarMetro's Killearn route, which runs at the weekday peaks only, and Ox Bottom Manor's is 4.4 kilometers away. Most of Killearn Estates is zoned for Lincoln High and Ox Bottom Manor for Chiles on the district's layer. 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
Betton Hills
The Betton Hills Neighborhood Association's area between Thomasville Road and Centerville Road north of Mitchell Avenue, 477 acres and about 1,150 residents in 2020, with Trescott and Laguna Ponds inside.
- 1,151
- Residents of the 26 census blocks inside the Betton Hills Neighborhood Association's mapped area and the City limits, in 498 housing units, 2.31 people a home, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1945
- The year the Winthrop family began subdividing the Betton plantation land for the housing that became Betton Hills, Black Cemetery Network, read 2026; the first lots sold for $300 with $30 down, Tallahassee Magazine, 2019
Killearn Estates
The Killearn Homes Association's area west of Centerville Road around Killarney Way and the Shamrock loop, 1,880 acres and about 7,200 residents in 2020, the largest guide here, with Lakes Kinsale, Killarney and Kanturk and the Killearn golf club inside.
- 7,179
- Residents of the 85 census blocks whose internal point falls inside the association's mapped area and the City limits, in 2,867 housing units, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 172 acres
- Of private lake inside the line: Lake Kinsale 15, Lake Killarney 80 and Lake Kanturk 77 acres, none open to the public and none deeper than 8 feet, City of Tallahassee lakes monitoring reports, 2026
Ox Bottom Manor
The Ox Bottom Manor Community Association's 692 acres east of North Meridian Road on the city's northern edge, 1,931 residents in 2020, with the Ox Bottom Park nature preserve inside.
- 1,931
- Residents of the 19 census blocks whose internal point falls inside the association's mapped area and the City limits, in 642 housing units, 3.01 people a unit, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 85.5 acres
- Ox Bottom Park Nature Preserve, the City park inside the line at 202 Meadow Ridge Road, City of Tallahassee parks map, 2026
Waverly Hills
The Waverly Hills Neighborhood Association's 289 acres east of North Meridian Road around Waverly Road, Lothian Drive and Waverly Pond, 809 residents in 2020, with Brinkley Glen Park inside.
- 809
- Residents of the 19 census blocks inside the Waverly Hills Neighborhood Association's 289 acres, in 308 housing units, 2.63 to a home, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1963
- Median year built of the 385 parcels coded single-family inside the line: 119 from the 1950s, 172 from the 1960s, 65 from the 1970s and 28 since 1980, Leon County parcel file as TLCGIS publishes it, read 2026
Photographs: A pond on the Miccosukee Greenway by The Bushranger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Killarney Park by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
