Flagler EstatesFL
A town of 4,321.
Is Flagler Estates a good place to live?
Flagler Estates gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $213K for a typical one, or 2.7 years of the Jacksonville metro’s $80K median household income. It grades B− overall, ranked 140th of 634 in Florida. The low prices come with trade-offs. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 78% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On the plus side, its public schools beat 96% of Florida towns on state tests and graduation. Flagler Estates’ mean commuting time is 38 minutes, above both the Florida town median (27 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). On walkability, just 22 of Florida’s 776 towns do worse.
Flagler Estates has grown 10% from 2010 to 2020
3,215 counted in 2010 and 3,540 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Flagler Estates grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Flagler Estates is from typical.
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Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and 25 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Flagler Estates. Close and well known come first.
19 mi National MonumentCastillo de San Marcos National Monument598K visitors a year
15 mi Theme parkMarineland of Florida
14 mi National MonumentFort Matanzas National Monument653K visitors a year
19 mi LighthouseSt. Augustine Light
21 mi State parkFort Mose Historic State Park
19 mi MuseumLightner MuseumPhoto credits
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument: National Park Service, Public domain · Marineland of Florida: Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5 · Fort Matanzas National Monument: Saginaw66, CC BY-SA 3.0 · St. Augustine Light: Viktoriya Sorochuk, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Mose Historic State Park: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lightner Museum: Kiran891, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Flagler Estates: who provides what
Flagler Estates is unincorporated, so St. Johns County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Flagler Estates.
Flagler Estates trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Jacksonville and beyond.
Most of Flagler Estates’ workers leave town for work
Flagler Estates has 92 jobs for its 1,767 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 37.7 minutes, against 28 across Florida.
Jobs based in Flagler Estates grew to 92 in 2023, 67 more than in 2013. Just 1% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The top destinations are Jacksonville (17%), St. Augustine (12%) and Palm Coast (3%).
| Flagler Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.8% | 5% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 11% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a high hazard risk in Flagler Estates: inland flooding
Expected losses in Flagler Estates break down as 52% from inland flooding and 28% from hurricanes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0% of Flagler Estates is conserved land
3.7 miles of trail. Flagler Estates’ trail network density comes in at 0.3 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Flagler Estates has mild winters and hot summers
January nights average 45.9°, milder than in 97% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.1°. The Hastings 4ne weather station, 8 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 308 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 76% of Florida places with climate records.
Snow almost never falls. In Flagler Estates, the January low is 46°F.
| Flagler Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 46°F | 51°F | 22°F |
| July high | 91°F | 91°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Flagler Estates trails 61% of U.S. towns
17% of adults in Flagler Estates smoke cigarettes; 16% report frequent physical distress. CDC measures, 31 in all: Flagler Estates beats Florida on 1 and trails on 7. For adults locally, the share who report frequent mental distress is 19%.
| Flagler Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 23% |
| What stands out | Flagler Estates | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 12.8% | 15.9% |
| More smokers | 16.8% | 12.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Flagler Estates sell for about $323K
Homes are within reach (B for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 21 miles. At 2.7 years of the Jacksonville metro’s $80K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 92% of Florida towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living.
Homes sold in Flagler Estates spent a median 100 days on the market. In Flagler Estates, the median rent is $1,147 a month. Among households locally, 69% live in a home they own.
| Flagler Estates | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,147 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 69% | 72% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Flagler Estates
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Flagler Estates
About 0 of every 100 Flagler Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Florida.
99% of working residents leave Flagler Estates for work
Where Flagler Estates’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Flagler Estates
Unincorporated community in Florida, U.S.
Flagler Estates is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in St. Johns County in the U.S. state of Florida. It is located 8 mi (13 km) southeast of Hastings and is bordered by Flagler County to the south. The population was 3,540 at the 2020 census, up from 3,215 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Area code
- 904
Questions about Flagler Estates
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Flagler Estates, FL a good place to live?
Flagler Estates grades B− overall, better than 53% of U.S. towns and #140 of 634 in Florida. It grades C+ for health and A+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Flagler Estates, FL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $213,000, 43% below the Florida typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.