Victoria Park Real Estate in Fort Lauderdale: Housing, Values and Flood Zones

Victoria Park is the northeast Fort Lauderdale neighborhood bounded by NE 10th Street, the Karen Canal, East Broward Boulevard and North Federal Highway (City of Fort Lauderdale, Victoria Park survey).

The city's historic preservation staff describe Victoria Park as a geographically distinct neighborhood in northeast Fort Lauderdale (City of Fort Lauderdale).

The city's neighborhood associations list includes the Victoria Park Civic Association, which meets on the first Wednesday of every month except August at 7:00 PM in the St. Anthony School cafeteria at 820 NE 3rd St (City of Fort Lauderdale, Neighborhood Associations).

For housing statistics, Victoria Park has to be read through Census tracts, because the Census Bureau does not publish neighborhood figures. The Census Geocoder places the St. Anthony School meeting site at 820 NE 3rd St in Census Tract 419 (Census Geocoder), which covers the southern part of the neighborhood along Broward Boulevard. Points in the north central and northeast parts of Victoria Park fall in Census Tract 418.01 (Census Geocoder) and Census Tract 418.02 (Census Geocoder). Those three tracts are used below as a stand-in; tract lines do not follow the neighborhood boundary.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the City of Fort Lauderdale Urban Design and Planning website.

Victoria Park mixes detached houses in its northern tracts with buildings of 20 or more units near Broward Boulevard, according to ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates for its three Census tracts.

The southern tract is the dense one. In Census Tract 419, 51.8 percent of housing units sit in buildings of 20 or more units (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 419), and the tract counts 3,327 housing units in all (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 419). Much of that stock is new: 24.3 percent of Tract 419 units were built from 2010 to 2019 and another 6.3 percent in 2020 or later (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 419).

North of that band the picture changes. Single detached houses make up 41.8 percent of the 1,129 housing units in Census Tract 418.01 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.01), and that tract has the largest pre-1940 share of the three: 18.2 percent were built in 1939 or earlier and another 18.2 percent in the 1950s (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.01). Census Tract 418.02, toward the Karen Canal side, has 2,610 housing units, 32.9 percent of them single detached (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.02), with 19.5 percent built in the 1960s and 23.7 percent in the 1970s (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.02).

Median owner-occupied home values in the Victoria Park tracts run from $518,200 to $777,500 in ACS 2020-2024 estimates, all above the Fort Lauderdale citywide median of $486,700.

Census Tract 418.01, the north central part of Victoria Park with the most detached and pre-1940 houses, has the highest median value at $777,500 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.01). Census Tract 419 along Broward Boulevard follows at $702,400 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 419), and Census Tract 418.02 in the northeast sits at $518,200 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.02). The citywide figure for Fort Lauderdale is $486,700 (ACS 2020-2024, Fort Lauderdale).

Rents split the other way. The median gross rent in Census Tract 419 is $2,546 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 419), well above the Fort Lauderdale median of $1,854 (ACS 2020-2024, Fort Lauderdale). The two northern Victoria Park tracts come in below the city median: $1,713 in Tract 418.01 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.01) and $1,675 in Tract 418.02 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.02).

Tenure follows the building type. In Census Tract 418.01, 61.1 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.01), while 70.0 percent of occupied units in Census Tract 419 are rented (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 419) and 62.3 percent in Census Tract 418.02 (ACS 2020-2024, Tract 418.02). These are ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates, not sale prices.

Victoria Park is not one of Fort Lauderdale's three locally designated historic districts, but the city's 2020 survey identified Victoria Courts inside it as a potential historic district and eight of its properties are designated landmarks.

The three designated districts are Sailboat Bend, the Himmarshee Street and SW 2nd Avenue district, and the Stranahan House district (City of Fort Lauderdale, Historic Districts). Victoria Park was instead covered by the 2020 Architectural Resource Survey, together with Breakwater Homes, Colee Hammock, Harbour Isles, La Quintana Manor, Shady Banks and Tarpon River (City of Fort Lauderdale, Architectural Resource Surveys). The city is explicit that architectural resource surveys do not designate property as a historic resource; designation of a landmark or a district follows its own process (City of Fort Lauderdale).

Victoria Courts sits on the east side of NE 17th Avenue and the west side of 17th Road between NE 7th Street and NE 8th Street (City of Fort Lauderdale, Victoria Park survey). The survey counted 12 contributing resources and 5 non-contributing resources there, with a period of significance from 1924 through 1937, and eight properties within it are designated individual Historic Landmarks (City of Fort Lauderdale). Across the rest of Victoria Park, the survey documented 54 more buildings as potential individual landmarks (City of Fort Lauderdale).

For a buyer of a designated landmark, the city lists a tax incentive: under ULDR Section 47-24.11.E (per F.S. 196.1997), the city commission may authorize an ad valorem tax exemption of 100 percent of the assessed value of all improvements to historic properties that result from restoration, renovation or rehabilitation, and the applicant must apply before construction begins (City of Fort Lauderdale, Historic Preservation Incentives). The exemption applies only to taxing authorities that agree to participate, such as the city or county portion, and does not affect taxing authorities such as school districts or fire (City of Fort Lauderdale).

FEMA flood zones vary inside Victoria Park: sampled points in the central and northeast parts map as Zone X, and a point near the Karen Canal maps as Zone AE, a coastal floodplain with a static base flood elevation of 7.0 feet (NAVD88).

A National Flood Hazard Layer query for central Victoria Park returns Zone X with a 0.2 percent annual chance flood hazard in the coastal zone, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area (FEMA NFHL). A point in the northeast part of the neighborhood returns Zone X, area of minimal flood hazard (FEMA NFHL). Near the Karen Canal on the east edge, the same layer returns Zone AE, coastal floodplain, with a static base flood elevation of 7.0 feet, NAVD88 (FEMA NFHL), the only one of the three sampled points inside a Special Flood Hazard Area.

The map panel covering central Victoria Park is 12011C0369J, with an effective date of July 31, 2024 (FEMA NFHL FIRM panels). The City of Fort Lauderdale flood insurance page still says new FEMA FIRMs went into effect August 18, 2014 (City of Fort Lauderdale, Flood and Flood Insurance); that date conflicts with the July 31, 2024 effective date the National Flood Hazard Layer lists for panel 12011C0369J, so the current zone is best checked by address.

The city answers flood zone questions at 954-828-6133, and Fort Lauderdale residents get a 20 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program premiums through the Community Rating System (City of Fort Lauderdale). NFIP coverage has a 30-day waiting period before it takes effect (City of Fort Lauderdale), so a policy on a Victoria Park home near the canal is best bound well before closing or before hurricane season, which the city lists as June 1 to November 30 (City of Fort Lauderdale).

When a Victoria Park home changes hands, the Broward County Property Appraiser resets its assessed value to full market value, which could result in higher property taxes for the buyer.

The Property Appraiser states that a change in ownership resets the assessed value to full market value, which could result in higher property taxes, and offers a Tax Estimator to approximate the new bill (Broward County Property Appraiser).

Property owners who both owned and made the property their permanent residence after January 1, 2026 may file for the 2027 Homestead Exemption. The timely filing period for a 2027 Homestead Exemption runs March 3, 2026 through March 1, 2027, and the absolute late filing deadline for any 2027 exemption is September 20, 2027 (Broward County Property Appraiser). The Property Appraiser does not send tax bills and does not set or collect taxes; billing and collection are handled by the Broward County Tax Collector's Office. Its office answers at 954-357-6830, weekdays from 8 am until 5 pm (Broward County Property Appraiser).

Owners of the designated landmarks in Victoria Courts have one more lever, the historic improvement exemption described above, but the application must be made before construction begins (City of Fort Lauderdale).