Did you know that around 20,000 homes occupied in Jacksonville were built before 1939? Or that 89% of Jaxsons have at least a high school degree?
There are all kinds of interesting things you can learn about Jacksonville – or any city – by looking at data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. And much of that data is available to the public, free of charge.
Reading census data can tell you a lot about a city’s residents – what kind of housing they live in, where they’re originally from, how much money they make, and so much more.
Here are just a few interesting statistics about Jacksonville that are readily available through the Census Bureau – and some thoughts on what they tell us about our city and its residents. All data is accurate up to 2017 – so while the exact numbers have probably changed a bit by now, it still provides a fairly up-to-date portrait of the city’s demographics.
Just over 32% of the occupied houses in Jacksonville were built after the turn of the century.
This statistic, more than any other, shows how much the city has grown in the past fifteen to twenty years. Dozens of new master-planned communities and multi-family apartment complexes have popped up around town in areas that were once dedicated to farming or timberland.
With plenty of untouched land remaining and the city continuing to grow quickly, expect this percentage to rise quickly over the next ten years or so.
