Nocatee Real Estate in 2026

The median owner-occupied home in Nocatee is valued at $648,800 in the Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 estimates, well above both the St. Johns County median and the City of Jacksonville median.

The Nocatee figure carries a margin of error of $46,458 (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024, Nocatee CDP). For St. Johns County as a whole the same table gives $489,200 (ACS 2020-2024, St. Johns County), and for the City of Jacksonville $293,700 (ACS 2020-2024, Jacksonville). A median Nocatee home is therefore valued at more than twice the Jacksonville median. These are five-year estimates for 2020 to 2024, not 2026 sale prices.

Rent is harder to pin down. The Census Bureau top codes median gross rent for Nocatee CDP at 3,500+ dollars a month, meaning the true median sits somewhere above that ceiling (ACS 2020-2024, Nocatee rent). Most Nocatee homes are owner occupied: of 9,643 occupied homes, 7,927 are owner occupied and 1,716 are rented, about 82% owners (ACS 2020-2024, Nocatee tenure).

The housing stock is young. The median Nocatee home was built in 2015 (ACS 2020-2024, Nocatee year built), and the community counts 27,442 residents (ACS 2020-2024, Nocatee population).

Most of the Nocatee development lies in St. Johns County, with about 1,991 of its roughly 13,323 acres across the line in Duval County, inside the City of Jacksonville, according to the 2001 development order summary.

The Jacksonville City Council's January 2001 analysis of Ordinance 2001-13, the development order for the Nocatee Development of Regional Impact, describes a mixed use development on approximately 13,323 acres in northeastern St. Johns County and southeastern Duval County, with approximately 1,991 acres within the City of Jacksonville (City of Jacksonville, Ordinance 2001-13). That puts roughly 15% of the 2001 Nocatee plan inside Jacksonville city limits. The same summary describes a town center and residential villages buffered from one another by wetlands and uplands.

Two community development districts were set up on either side of that county line. A 2009 state notice describes the Split Pine Community Development District as covering approximately 2,014.98 acres entirely within Duval County and the City of Jacksonville limits, in the southeastern corner of Duval County east of US Highway 1, and the Tolomato Community Development District as covering approximately 11,355.06 acres entirely within St. Johns County, in northeastern St. Johns County between Jacksonville and St. Augustine (Florida Administrative Register, 2009). The Tolomato boundary rule first took effect on July 29, 2004 (Florida Administrative Code, Rule 42SS-1.002). The state rule record describes both districts by location and acreage and does not name Nocatee.

The two districts did not stay separate. When both were established, section 190.003 of the Florida Statutes barred districts from crossing county boundaries; that prohibition ended July 1, 2007, and the 2009 notice says the owners of all the land in both districts consented to merging their boundaries. A notice published January 15, 2010 said the commission would consider expanding the boundaries of the Tolomato district to include the existing Split Pine lands, alongside a rule repealing the Split Pine rules (Florida Administrative Register, 2010), and the rule history records an amendment on March 2, 2010. By 2018 the Tolomato district consisted of 13,388.45 acres within St. Johns and Duval Counties (Florida Administrative Register, 2018), close to the 13,323 acres of the 2001 Nocatee plan. Tolomato has kept growing since: the rule history shows 79.34 acres added in an amendment effective 06/11/2018 and 466.07 acres in one effective 05/13/2021.

A contract for the initial sale of a Nocatee home or lot inside a community development district must carry a state-mandated warning that the district may levy its own taxes or assessments, in addition to county and other local taxes.

Florida Statutes section 190.048 requires each contract for the initial sale of a parcel or residential unit within a community development district to carry, immediately above the buyer's signature and in boldfaced type larger than the rest of the contract, a statement that the district may impose and levy taxes or assessments that pay the construction, operation and maintenance costs of certain public facilities and services, set annually by the district's governing board (Florida Statutes 190.048). The disclosure names the district. The state record places the Tolomato district in northeastern St. Johns County and, since the Split Pine merger, in Duval County as well, the same two counties the 2001 Nocatee order names, but it does not name Nocatee (Rule 42SS-1.002).

The statute names only the initial sale of a parcel or residential unit within a district. Because a district's governing board sets its taxes and assessments annually, the levy on a specific Nocatee parcel is a figure to confirm for the current year before comparing it with a Jacksonville home outside any district.

A Nocatee owner on the St. Johns County side files for homestead with the St. Johns County Property Appraiser by March 1, while an owner on the Duval County side files with the Duval County Property Appraiser by the same date.

The St. Johns County Property Appraiser accepts homestead, portability and other exemption applications online; the statutory deadline is March 1, moving to the next business day when March 1 falls on a weekend, and the home must be the applicant's permanent residence on January 1 of the year applied for (St. Johns County Property Appraiser). March 1, 2027 falls on a Monday, so the deadline for the 2027 roll is that date.

On the Jacksonville side of Nocatee the Duval County Property Appraiser handles the same exemption: owners who moved into a new home in Duval County after January 1, 2026 can now file for 2027, with a timely deadline of March 1, 2027 and late filing through early September (Duval County Property Appraiser). A Nocatee owner therefore files with the property appraiser of the county where the home sits.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the St. Johns County Property Appraiser and Duval County Property Appraiser websites.

The St. Johns County School District's attendance zoning page places a new K-8 school, K-8 School RR, within the Nocatee development at 1515 Conservation Trail, planned to open for the 2026-2027 school year with grades K-7 in its first year.

That wording comes from an August 26, 2025 district media release on the page, which described K-8 School RR and K-8 School QQ, in the SilverLeaf development at 800 Courtney Vista Drive, as under construction and planned to open for the 2026-2027 school year (St. Johns County School District, Attendance Zoning). On October 15, 2026 the page still uses the working name K-8 School RR. The same page offers a 2026-2027 Attendance Zone Locator that takes a Nocatee address and returns its school zones, and a separate 8th grade locator for areas zoned to the two new schools.

The district takes questions about the 2026-2027 zoning for K-8 Schools QQ and RR at (904) 547-7680, and the page directs help with the Attendance Zone Locator to St. Johns County GIS staff.

Single-family permits in the Census Bureau's St. Johns County Unincorporated Area fell from 4,836 in 2024 to 3,471 in 2025 and stood at 2,054 through August 2026, but those counts are not broken out for Nocatee.

The Census Bureau's 2024 annual file lists 4,836 single-family homes for St. Johns County Unincorporated Area (Building Permits Survey, 2024), its 2025 file lists 3,471, with 11 of 12 months reported (Building Permits Survey, 2025), and its January to August 2026 file lists 2,054 valued at $572,260,830 (Building Permits Survey, 2026 year to date). Those totals cover the whole unincorporated county, not Nocatee alone. The Jacksonville new construction 2026 guide compares these counts with the Duval County side.

Impact fees on new St. Johns County homes are also changing. At its December 2, 2025 regular meeting the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved an amendment to the Consolidated Impact Fee Ordinance, creating a Conservation and Open Space Impact Fee that begins at 50% of the maximum recommended amount and increases by 12.5% each year for four years, while increases to other non-school impact fees are phased in (St. Johns County, December 4, 2025). The Road Impact Fee is now the Multimodal Transportation Impact Fee. The ordinance waives non-school fees fully for qualifying affordable housing for households earning up to 50% of area median income and by half from 50% to 80%, with a 30-year deed restriction. It takes effect on filing with the Florida Secretary of State, and new or increased fees, including the conservation fee, take effect 90 days after that date.