North Jacksonville

Neighborhoods include Biscayne, Biscayne Terrace, Black Hammock Island, Blount Island, Brown Island, College Park, Copper Hill, Dinsmore, Durkeville, Duval, Eagle Bend, East Point, Forrest Trails, Fort George Island, Garden City, Hart Estates, Highlands, Hollyford, Imeson Park, Jax North Estates, Jamestown, Little Marsh Hill, New Berlin, North New Berlin, North Lake, Oceanway, Pecan, Pumpkin, San Mateo, The Cape, Turtle Creek and Yellow Bluff.

The Northside has been home to many famous individuals and has also produced many well known Jacksonville political figures. Former Jacksonville Mayor Jake Godbold and US Representative Corrine Brown call the Northside home. The late Bob Hayes was also a product of Jacksonville's Northside.

Most prominent among Northside schools is Stanton College Preparatory School. Stanton, which offers an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, has been consistently ranked among the top high schools in the nation by the US News and World Report.

Dinsmore

Dinsmore is one of several small towns that formerly existed far outside of Jacksonville’s city limits, and were absorbed through consolidation. Still quite rural at heart, Dinsmore has the look and feel of a “one-road town”, that road being Old Kings Road. Though Dinsmore remained quite small for thirty years after becoming part of Jacksonville, new subdivisions are being built on the northwestern edge of Dinsmore, with the population of the area looking to more than double in less than a decade.

Garden City

Like its neighbor to the west, Dinsmore, Garden City was also once a town of its own, as evidenced by the many churches and businesses that still bear “Garden City” in their title. But Garden City is closer to the main body of Jacksonville, and as such, it no longer has Dinsmore’s rural “feel”. The main road through Dinsmore, Dunn Ave., has exploded with growth since the mid 1990s, and is becoming the center of professional businesses (such as medical establishments, lawyers, learning centers) for the Northside.

Durkeeville

A small, historic neighborhood located in the urban core, Durkeeville can be defined by its historical district boundaries (Kings Rd on the south, 13th St. on the north, Whitner St. on the west, and I-95 on the east). Though small, Durkeeville looms large in Jacksonville and even African American history. Durkeeville was home to the Jacksonville Red Caps, a team that was part of the Negro Leagues of professional baseball. The ball park in which the Red Caps played, J. P. Small Ballpark, is still preserved in excellent condition, and is used by local leagues.

Oceanway

Oceanway is located just north of San Mateo. Once an area of small farms and isolated houses, since the 1980s, Oceanway has grown dramatically with the addition of numerous residential neighborhoods, which was further encouraged by the building of First Coast High School in 1990, and several other schools for lower grades. Oceanway's growth has been cultural as well as economic. As recently as the 1980s, Oceanway was still regarded as typifying perhaps the epitome of racism in Jacksonville; twenty years ago a trailer only blocks from the new high school housed the self-proclaimed leader of Jacksonville's Ku Klux Klan. But with growth has come the influx of a more educated, more economically successful, and ethnically diverse population. Oceanway and the bordering neighborhoods of New Berlin and Yellow Bluff are now amongst the fastest growing areas of the city, and would literally be unrecognizable to someone who "came home" today after a twenty-year absence.

San Mateo

San Mateo is a small neighborhood, bounded on the south by the Broward River, on the west by Main St., and on the north and east by Eastport Rd. Over the past 30 years, San Mateo has been one of the more unchanging area within Jacksonville. Relatively isolated, with no heavy-use roads passing through and a limited number of access streets, San Mateans take great pride in their neighborhood and its school, San Mateo Elementary, which is an Academic and Academically Gifted magnet school. Most homes were built in the late 1960s, though in recent years skyrocketing real estate values have caused a few small homes lying on both Baisden Rd. and along the Broward River to be demolished and replaced by much larger homes.