32259Fruit Cove, Florida

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 32259.

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How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 11% of 4,422 published ZIP areas82
Housing affordabilityTop 23% of 6,685 published ZIP areas94
ClimateTop 17% of 6,789 published ZIP areas80
Physical resilience3952nd of 6,709 published ZIP areas49
AccessTop 39% of 6,791 published ZIP areas95
Economic stabilityTop 8% of 6,742 published ZIP areas82
The quick read

Rent takes 18% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.5 times that income.

A typical July reaches 92°F and a typical January falls to 47°F, on thirty-year normals.

A major airport is 17 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
75,016
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$150,736
Top 4% nationally
Density
1,327/sq mi
56.5 sq mi of land
Median age
39.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fruit Cove
Florida
Metro area
Jacksonville, FL
Nearest major airport
SGJ
17 mi · St Augustine
Median home value
$533,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

55% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 91% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 96% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$9,069$150,736Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,519$56,233Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate2.8%Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.6 minTop 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher55.4%Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation67.6%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,700Bottom 40%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,830Bottom 35%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024151k135k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $150,736 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Jacksonville, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons22,390$34,360
Fast Food and Counter Workers21,480$28,470
Registered Nurses18,940$83,520
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand17,350$41,040
Customer Service Representatives17,030$42,840
General and Operations Managers16,870$100,870

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

83% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 79% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
82.9%
Top 1% in Florida
Reading proficiency
79.2%
Top 2% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLST. JOHNS2,47923.0
BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLST. JOHNS2,21425.4
BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLST. JOHNS2,15325.0
FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMYST. JOHNS1,96417.978%80%
LIBERTY PINES ACADEMYST. JOHNS1,79518.583%82%
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMYST. JOHNS1,47317.385%79%
SWITZERLAND POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLST. JOHNS1,28220.084%73%
FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOLST. JOHNS1,15720.783%79%
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST. JOHNS1,09015.687%82%
JULINGTON CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST. JOHNS92316.587%84%
CUNNINGHAM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST. JOHNS73014.978%72%
HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST. JOHNS66914.984%80%

11.6% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Florida’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,257 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
18.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,257
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$533,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.54Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate88.2%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±82625,181Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$149$2,257Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,488$533,400Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.0%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.1%Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 92°F and January a low of 47°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 47.6 inches.

40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station JACKSONVILLE NAS, 12.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND7.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation47.6"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low47°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing28°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

49 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and coastal flooding.

HurricaneElevated
Inland floodingModerate
WildfireModerate
Coastal floodingElevated

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, tornado, heat wave, earthquake, strong wind, drought, cold wave, landslide, hail, ice storm, winter weather.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

St. Johns County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 10.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.0 per 100,000 residents in St. Johns County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for St. Johns County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 32259 rather than 32259 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 17 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
St AugustineSGJ17 mi8,001 ft
Jacksonville IntlJAX30 mi10,000 ft
Lake City GatewayLCQ60 mi8,003 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

32259 vs Fruit Cove

How this ZIP area compares with Fruit Cove as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

32259
Fruit Cove
Median household income
$150,736
vs
$141,863
Per capita income
$56,233
vs
$56,625
Population density
1,327/sq mi
vs
2,226/sq mi
Median home value
$533,400
vs
$484,000
Median gross rent
$2,257
vs
$2,336
Homeownership rate
88.2%
vs
87.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
55.4%
vs
53.8%
Poverty rate
2.8%
vs
2.7%
Median age
39.1
vs
41.3

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.