Live in Killearn Estates

Killearn Estates began on a dairy farm. In 1964 J.T. Williams, with Mallory Horne and Bill Cartee, bought 3,800 acres of the Velda Dairy north of town, and the association that runs the subdivision says it was the city's first planned community with its utilities underground. The golf course came with the plan: the Tallahassee Open was played at Killearn Country Club from 1969 to 1989 on the PGA Tour. The City annexed all of this guide's area in one piece in 1982. In the census tract holding most of its residents, a larger area, the median home was built in 1979, give or take two years.

This guide is the association's map, not a neighborhood the City drew. The line is the Killearn Homes Association's area on the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS layer of associations, clipped to the City limits, which hold all 1,880 acres. Centerville Road, a County canopy road, runs along the east. The 2020 census counted 7,179 residents in 2,867 homes inside it, 2.5 to a home. The association's site says some 12,000 residents and more than 4,000 acres, which seems to reach past the mapped area; the difference was not worked out here. Killearn Lakes Plantation, farther north, is a different subdivision outside the city line.

The lakes and the parks are private. Lakes Kinsale, Killarney and Kanturk run in a chain through the middle, 15, 80 and 77 acres on the City's 2026 monitoring reports, none open to the public and none deeper than 8 feet. In the dry year of 2025, 45.4 inches of rain against a 58.8-inch average, Lake Kanturk held too little water to sample after two visits. The City rates the plant life of all three poor, and the state carries a nutrient restoration plan for each. The association runs ten parks for residents and their guests, an architectural control committee and a tree removal application. Its dues were not read.

Flood here is rain, and it sits around the water. On the County's copy of FEMA's 2009 maps, 573 residents of 2020 lived on blocks whose internal point is in the special flood hazard area, 515 in zone AE and 58 in zone A; the reference point is in zone X. A block is not a house, so read FEMA's map at the address. The City is in Class 5 of FEMA's Community Rating System, 25% off flood insurance in the hazard area. Hermine in 2016 cut power to about 65% of City electric customers on the National Hurricane Center's count and about 80% on the National Weather Service's; how any street here fared was not mapped.

Every trip is a drive. The nearest bus stop, 2.2 km from the reference point, is on StarMetro's Killearn route, which runs at the weekday peaks only; the all-day Red Hills route stops 3.4 km away at Village Square, about hourly, for $1.25. A City address paid 19.2060 mills for 2025. On the metro's June 2026 single-family median of $364,950, a homesteaded owner's bill is about $6,183, and about $7,009 without a homestead. Stormwater ($11.00 a month) and garbage ($28.19) come on the City utility bill with a fire services fee whose amount this site could not read, and which residents sued over in November 2025. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32309, condominiums included, was $400,007 in August 2026: a model of the ZIP, not a price for this guide.