Lakeside, Florida

Area Profile

32,105 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Lakeside, in Clay County.

58out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 46% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
Opportunity3,356th of 4,199 cities measured42
SchoolsTop 25% of 4,162 cities measured70
GrowthTop 40% of 4,224 cities measured54
Housing affordabilityTop 40% of 4,218 cities measured70
ClimateTop 17% of 4,225 cities measured80
Physical resilience3,013th of 4,226 cities measured36
Access2,600th of 4,226 cities measured89
Economic stability2,138th of 4,226 cities measured58
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 4.9% and the Opportunity signal places Lakeside in the bottom 20%. The unemployment rate is published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

In the public schools here, 64% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.2 students for every teacher. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 1,451 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 21% on the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

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At a glance

Population
32,105
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$81,684
Top 32% nationally
Density
2,386/sq mi
13.5 sq mi of land
Median age
39.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Florida
Nearest major airport
JAX
25 mi · Jacksonville Intl
Median home value
$273,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, is 4.9% — higher than in all but 29% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, fell 1.2% over the past year, to 107,526 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsClay County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$65,07535th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftClay County, FL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$61,21225th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,2532024 ACS 5-Year$81,684Top 32%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,0782024 ACS 5-Year$34,954Top 46%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year8.9%Top 42%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.5 min2024 ACS 5-Year31.1 minBottom 29%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year23.6%Top 42%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year76.8%49th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentClay County, FL’s figureJuly 2026107,526Top 42%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Clay County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−2.8%Bottom 16%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Clay County, FL’s figureJuly 2026−1.2%Bottom 41%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceClay County, FL’s figureJuly 2026113,04658th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year79.1%Top 47%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageJacksonville, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$65,700Bottom 34%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageJacksonville, FL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$48,830Bottom 30%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Clay County, FL’s figureJuly 2026+0.6%Bottom 12%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateClay County, FL’s figureJuly 20264.9%Bottom 29%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year13.7%73rd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202482k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $81,684 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

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a labor-market series for this place — true of a consolidated city-county, a city and county sharing one government, or a Puerto Rico municipio, regardless of population. This is the figure for Clay County, FL, which contains this city.

64% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 62% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

There are 15.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

Public schools
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Students per teacher
15.2
Math proficiency
64.1%
Top 28% in Florida
Reading proficiency
62.2%
Top 26% in Florida

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Clay County, FL: too few schools in Lakeside reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Florida’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run at about the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 99.6, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area is up 41% over five years, and up 0.1% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,900 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.69% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,819, some 23% above the $1,479 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,819 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $72,700 a year, about 89% of the median household income here of $81,684.

The typical renter household here spends 31% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,479 a month.

A median home at $273,900 costs 2.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $93,672, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
99.6

Prices here run at about the national average. Where places do differ, housing drives most of it — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
31.3%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,819
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,479
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$273,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Lakeside’s median household income of $81,684, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Jacksonville, FL Metro Area’s figure202399.6Top 42%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+0.1%8th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+40.5%43rd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+109.8%76th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year2.9Bottom 37%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year68.9%35th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5572024 ACS 5-Year12,64995th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,518Bottom 42%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,242Bottom 47%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,819Bottom 41%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$902024 ACS 5-Year$1,479Bottom 20%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,0252024 ACS 5-Year$273,90068th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1192024 ACS 5-Year$1,90054th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$4,8662024 ACS 5-Year$93,672Top 33%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.05%2024 ACS 5-Year0.69%28th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year31.3%Bottom 35%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±322024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year4.5%36th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2432024 ACS 5-Year57191st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

54/ 100
Top 40% of 4,224 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 1,451 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 2% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

Federal tax returns show Clay County, which contains Lakeside, gained about 1.8% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $65,075, above the $61,212 of households that moved out.

At 6.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Clay County, FL, which contains Lakeside, rather than for Lakeside alone.

Units permitted
1,451
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.4
Top 21% nationally
Year over year
+21%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
1.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+1.8%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
39%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$65,075
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$61,212
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Duval County, FL 6,609 people · 35% of arrivals
  2. St. Johns County, FL 805 people · 4.3% of arrivals
  3. Broward County, FL 341 people · 1.8% of arrivals
  4. Putnam County, FL 291 people · 1.5% of arrivals
  5. Alachua County, FL 265 people · 1.4% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Duval County, FL 5,034 people · 33% of departures
  2. St. Johns County, FL 742 people · 4.8% of departures
  3. Bradford County, FL 378 people · 2.5% of departures
  4. Putnam County, FL 352 people · 2.3% of departures
  5. Alachua County, FL 228 people · 1.5% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Clay County, FL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Lakeside, FL is not one. This is the figure for Clay County, FL, which contains this city.

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, 9.1 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND7.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals47.6"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals47°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals92°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals28°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

36 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 62% of it. Tornado is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HurricaneElevated
Inland floodingElevated
WildfireModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, tornado, heat wave, earthquake, coastal flooding, strong wind, landslide, drought, winter weather, hail, ice storm, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Clay County records 4.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.8 per 100,000 residents in Clay County.

Homicide
4.7
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.2
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
13.8
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
15.5
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Lakeside (Clay County) rather than Lakeside itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Jacksonville Intl at 25 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year94.4%Top 28%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle25 miBottom 34%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 45%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.6%Top 28%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Jacksonville IntlJAX25 mi10,000 ft
St AugustineSGJ28 mi8,001 ft
Lake City GatewayLCQ48 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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Other cities in Jacksonville, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
JacksonvilleDuval County977,67055Jacksonville vs Lakeside
Fruit CoveSt. Johns County35,87764Fruit Cove vs Lakeside
Oakleaf PlantationClay County32,07060Oakleaf Plantation vs Lakeside
Fleming IslandClay County29,76661
NocateeSt. Johns County27,44264
World Golf VillageSt. Johns County26,07761
Jacksonville BeachDuval County23,65464
Palm ValleySt. Johns County19,79661
YuleeNassau County16,64862
St. AugustineSt. Johns County15,35157
Bellair-Meadowbrook TerraceClay County14,75554
Asbury LakeClay County14,45858

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.