Live in Ox Bottom Manor

Ox Bottom Manor is a homeowners association's subdivision on the city's northern edge, east of North Meridian Road. On the City's annexation layer it came into the city in three pieces: the south, near Ox Bottom Road, in 1988, the northwest along Meridian in 1989 and the east in 1990. In the census tract that holds 1,694 of its 1,931 residents, the median home was built in 1996, give or take a year, and 1,207 of 1,220 occupied homes are owned, give or take 124. The same tract's median household income is $164,714, give or take $20,486, the American Community Survey's estimate for 2020 to 2024. The wider Ox Bottom area, and the separate Ox Bottom Homeowners Association's area on the same map, are mostly outside the city in unincorporated Leon County.

The line is the association's, not the City's. This guide is the Ox Bottom Manor Community Association's area on the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS layer of homeowner and neighborhood associations, clipped to the City limits, which hold all 692 acres. North Meridian Road, the longest of the County's canopy roads, runs along the west; its 100-foot protection zone is drawn for planning purposes, and what the canopy road rules permit was not read. The 2020 census counted 1,931 residents in 642 homes, 3.01 to a home. In 2017 neighbors here and in Moore Pond challenged Leon County's approval of Brookside Village next door, 61 lots on about 35 acres, putting its density at 3.3 times Ox Bottom Manor's 1.10 homes an acre; how the challenge ended was not read. The association's dues and covenants were not read either.

The schools are the draw, and the bus is absent. On Leon County Schools' 2026-27 layers the point, and every resident of 2020, is zoned for Hawks Rise Elementary, Deerlake Middle and Lawton Chiles High, each graded A by the state in 2026, 2025 and 2024. The nearest bus stop is 4.4 km away at Kerry Forest Parkway and Thomasville Road, and on weekdays only StarMetro's peak-only Killearn route stops there. No all-day weekday route comes within 5 km. The nearest supermarket, a Publix on Bannerman Road, is 2.8 km away in a straight line, outside the city, and downtown is 14 km south.

Flood is not the risk here; wind is. No block's internal point was in a FEMA flood zone in 2020, though 3.85% of the area is zone A, and the reference point is zone X on FEMA's 2009 map. The City is in Class 5 of FEMA's Community Rating System. Hermine in 2016 cut power to about 65% of the City's electric customers on the National Hurricane Center's count and about 80% on the National Weather Service's; Michael in 2018 gusted to 62 knots at the airport; Helene in 2024 left about 53,000 City utility customers out at its peak. How any street here fared was not mapped.

What it costs is mostly unknown. A City address paid 19.2060 mills for 2025. On the metro's June 2026 single-family median of $364,950, a homesteaded bill is about $6,183, and about $7,009 without a homestead. The tract's median home value, as owners estimate it, is $526,900, give or take $51,355, and Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32312, which reaches far outside the city, was $454,613 in August 2026; no sale price for the subdivision was found. Stormwater ($11.00 a month) and garbage ($28.19) come on the City utility bill with a fire services fee whose amount was not read and which residents sued over in November 2025.