Live in Parkside and Park Terrace

Parkside and Park Terrace is one neighborhood association named for two subdivisions. This guide follows the area the association serves as Tallahassee-Leon County GIS maps it, clipped to the City limits: a line the association filed, not one the City drew, and nothing here says where residents think either name ends. It covers about 170 acres north of West Tharpe Street, between Old Bainbridge Road and North Monroe Street but short of both, plus a 9-acre piece south of Tharpe on Gibbs Drive. The 2020 census counted 550 residents in 241 housing units. The City annexed the land in three pieces: 13 acres in 1952, 96 in 1960 and the western 60 in 1964.

The two names are two building eras. Parkside is a plat in the Property Appraiser's Plat Book 3, 120 acres and 236 houses, the oldest from 1947 and 150 from the 1950s. The three Park Terrace units, about 49 acres, hold 121 houses: a cluster from 1977, then 76 built from 1981 to 1985. Across all 357 the median lot is 0.32 acres and the median base 1,590 square feet. The year on the record is where questions about roofs and wiring start.

It is an owners' neighborhood in a student city. On the 2025 roll 267 of the 357 houses carry a homestead exemption, which Florida gives to property an owner makes a permanent residence: 100 of 121 in Park Terrace and 167 of 236 in Parkside. The census found 2.28 residents to a housing unit and no dormitory-like block. The census tract holding 520 of the residents, much larger than the guide, had about 11% of its residents in college on the 2020 to 2024 survey, with wide margins. Florida State's nearest campus buildings are about 2.7 km south in a straight line.

What it costs is known only as a valuation. The roll puts the median house at $226,402 for 2025, land $40,000 of it. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32303, condominiums included, was $239,971 in August 2026; it is not a Parkside price, and no public source publishes a sale median here. Every parcel pays the City's 2025 stack of 19.2060 mills. A homesteaded buyer at the median value would owe about $3,522 a year, with $25,000 off every levy and a second, inflation-indexed $25,000 off all but the school levies; without a homestead, about $4,348. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year but resets on sale, so the seller's bill understates yours; portability can carry part of an earlier Florida homestead's benefit. The City sells the electricity, water, sewer and gas, and its bill adds stormwater at $11.00 and garbage at $28.19 a month and a fire services fee whose amount this guide could not read, raised 9.98% in October 2025 and challenged in a suit filed on 17 November 2025. The arithmetic is on the Tallahassee page.

Storms here are wind and trees. FEMA puts the reference point in zone X on a 2009 panel and about 2% of the area in zone AE, with no 2020 resident on a block inside it; check the address. The City is in Class 5 of FEMA's Community Rating System. 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, the May 2024 tornadoes broke more than 400 poles, and Helene left about 53,000 City customers dark. No source read maps how any street here fared. No canopy road runs along the line; the protected stretch of Old Bainbridge Road begins about 300 m west.