Live in Greater Bond

The City's own history begins with fruit. Until 1927 this ground west of Florida A&M was a blueberry farm owned by Benjamin J. and Leticia J. Bond. After he died she cut it into plots, African American families bought them, and the fields gave way to homes, groceries, washhouses, cafes, schools and churches. The line on this page is not one the City drew: it is the Greater Bond Neighborhood Association's own area on the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS map of associations, clipped to the City limits, 468 acres between FAMU Way, Lake Bradford Road and Orange Avenue.

What a buyer is choosing is a plan in progress. The association formed in March 2016 and adopted its Neighborhood First plan on 24 September 2018 after a year of resident work groups. On 13 December the City's Community Redevelopment Agency voted $6.4 million for it: $500,000 at once for a linear park, facade grants and work on Speed-Spencer-Stephens Park, and $5.9 million over three years. Ground was broken on the park in 2020, and in February 2026 residents unveiled historic markers there. 2,536 of the 2,791 people counted here live in the Greater Frenchtown/Southside redevelopment area, which keeps the growth in tax revenue inside its line for such projects and adds no rate to the bill.

The campus is next door, and no census table counts its students here. The 2020 count was 2,791 residents on 1,325 housing units, 2.11 to a unit, 170 of them inside Florida A&M's campus line. The Census Bureau's survey puts 51.4% of tract 11.01, which holds most of the line, in college or graduate school, give or take about 108 of its 1,347 undergraduates, and 31.3% of tract 12; both tracts are larger than the neighborhood.

No price follows the line. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32310, which holds every resident here and much of the south side besides, was $181,703 in August 2026, up 2.9%, condominiums included. Every address pays the same 2025 stack, 19.2060 mills. A homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $2,654 a year, with $25,000 off every levy and a second $25,722 off all but the school levies; a landlord, about $3,490. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and resets after a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours; portability can carry part of an earlier Florida homestead's benefit. The City sells the power, water, sewer and gas, and its bill carries stormwater at $11.00 a month, garbage at $28.19 and a fire services fee whose amount this guide could not read, under a lawsuit filed on 17 November 2025. The arithmetic is on the Tallahassee page.

Flood here is rain, not surge. On the County's FEMA layer 5.75% of the area is in the special flood hazard area and no 2020 resident's census block is; FEMA gives zone X at the point, on 2009 panels, and the City's Class 5 rating takes 25% off policies inside the zone. Hermine cut power to about 65% of City electric customers in 2016 by the Hurricane Center's count, about 80% by the Weather Service's; two EF2 tornadoes converged on the city on 10 May 2024; Helene left about 53,000 City customers dark. No source read maps how any street here fared.