If it feels like there are more cars on I-95 and the lines at Publix are getting longer, you’re not wrong. Our beloved Jacksonville is officially one of the hottest tickets in the nation, and the U.S. Census Bureau just dropped the receipts to prove it.
According to their latest estimates, Jacksonville added a whopping 16k new residents between July 2023 and July 2024. That’s like a whole small town deciding, “Yeah, JAX is where it’s at!”
This surge brings our official population to a mighty 1,009,833. This influx of good taste (and probably people fleeing colder climates) has landed us at #10 in the entire country for the largest numeric increase in population. That’s right, we’re out here growing faster than Big John Henderson’s appetite after a pre-game warmup in 2007.
It seems the South, in general, is where everyone wants to be. The Census Bureau data found here, shows that half of the top 10, and the majority of the top 15 locations are all in the southern states.