Live in Waverly Hills

Waverly Hills lies between Thomasville Road and North Meridian Road, south of Interstate 10. Its streets are named for Walter Scott: Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, Abbotsford, Lothian and Waverly itself, and even a Walter Scott Street. Tallahassee Magazine called it, in 2015, a onetime hunting and fishing plantation. On this page it is the area the Waverly Hills Neighborhood Association serves, as the County's GIS office maps it: 289 acres, a line the association filed rather than one the City drew, all inside the City limits. The 2020 census counted 809 residents in 308 homes there, 2.63 to a home.

What a buyer is choosing is space and age. The County's parcel file holds 385 single-family parcels inside the line, with a median year built of 1963: 119 from the 1950s, 172 from the 1960s, 65 from the 1970s and only 28 since. The median lot is 0.56 acres and the median base area 2,424 square feet. That is a house of sixty years on a lot full of trees: the roof, wiring and plumbing are of their decade unless replaced, and storms here arrive as wind and falling limbs. 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; no source read maps how any street here fared.

The counts do not agree, and the reasons are known. Tallahassee Magazine wrote of more than 400 homes on more than 400 wooded acres. The association's line is 289 acres. The census counts 308 homes because it counts only the blocks whose center falls inside the line, and the line cuts across blocks; the parcel file counts 385 because it takes each parcel by its own center. None of the three is wrong about what it measures. The magazine also reported no association fees, only a request for donations every three years; how the association is funded now was not read.

The water is in the parks, and so is the flood zone. FEMA's zone A, with no base flood elevation printed, covers 4.1% of the line on the County's layer, in two pieces: one around Waverly Pond at the Thomasville Road entrance and one along the creek in Brinkley Glen Park. No block where people live is inside it, and the guide's point is in zone X on a 2009 panel, but a block is not a lot: look the address up on FEMA's flood map, especially one backing onto either park. The City is in Class 5 of FEMA's Community Rating System, 25% off flood insurance in the hazard area, and makes a house repaired or improved by half its value rise 2 feet above the flood elevation. North Meridian Road, the western edge, is a County canopy road; its 100-foot zone, drawn for planning purposes, covers under 1% of the line. What the canopy rules permit was not read.

The money. No price index follows the line. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 32312, $454,613 in August 2026, covers 34,304 people of 2020 and reaches deep into unincorporated Leon County. A City address paid 19.2060 mills for 2025 across nine levies, $1,920.60 a year on each $100,000 of taxable value. Homestead takes $25,000 off every levy and a second $25,000 off all but the schools', about $826 a year. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessment at 3% a year and resets on sale, so a long-held house's bill understates the buyer's, and portability can carry over a previous Florida homestead's difference. Stormwater ($11.00 a month), garbage ($28.19) and a fire services fee come on the City's utility bill with the City's own electricity, water, sewer and gas; the fire fee's amount was not read, and residents sued over it on 17 November 2025.