Live in Providence

Providence began as Bloxham Heights, named for William D. Bloxham, twice governor, though the people who lived there called it Allen Hill, after a large family at the top of Lake Avenue. A Florida State case study of 2003, citing county records, dates the City's approval of the plat to 11 December 1928, on Kate Stuckey's land, and Hutchinson Heights south of Levy Avenue to 1947. Most of the first houses were wood-frame homes of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The line on this page is the Providence Neighborhood Association's own area on the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS map of associations, clipped to the City limits: 152 acres west of Lake Bradford Road, larger than the 100 acres the association's own plan describes, and not a line the City drew.

The name is the residents' doing. Around 1980, the case study says, the neighborhood turned from all white to predominantly Black. In 1996 a crime watch began meeting at Providence Baptist Church; in 1998 it became the Providence Neighborhood Association, and some felony crimes fell 45% between 1996 and 2000. The City made Providence its second Renaissance Neighborhood in 2002, and the 2003 plan set 181 tasks, from cleanups to a community center. A refresh began in 2020, and in February 2022 Florida State's planning lab found 80% of the tasks had seen some progress. 1,221 of the residents live in the Greater Frenchtown/Southside redevelopment area, which keeps its growth in tax revenue for local projects and adds no rate.

A low count per home, and no proof it is students. The 2020 census counted 1,348 residents on 943 housing units, 1.43 to a unit, the fewest of any Tallahassee guide on this site, and 127 of them lived inside the City's 100-foot buffer around Florida State's campus line, 0.2 kilometers from the point. Yet the Census Bureau's survey puts only 10.3% of residents of tract 19.01, which holds all of them, in college or graduate school, give or take about 119 of its 143 undergraduates. No source read says what the 943 units are, or how many stood empty.

The bus is better here in term. Florida State's fare-free Innovation route stops at Levy Avenue every 20 minutes at midday from 19 August to 4 December 2026; StarMetro's Live Oak route stops there every 45 minutes, at $1.25. No price follows the line: Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32310 was $181,703 in August 2026, 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, and 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. The City's own utility 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. None of the line is in FEMA's special flood hazard area on the County's layer, FEMA gives zone X at the point on 2009 panels, and the City's Class 5 rating cuts policies inside the zone by 25%. Wind is what reaches it: 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, and Helene about 53,000 City customers in 2024. No source read maps any street.