Most working residents commute out of Neptune Beach
Most working residents leave Neptune Beach for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Jacksonville (55%), Jacksonville Beach (8%) and Palm Valley (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.
Neptune Beach’s public schools outperform 37% of Florida districts
The public schools Neptune Beach’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 63% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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Climate
Mild winters, hot summers
Neptune Beach has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 90°, a January night drops to 47°, and snow is almost unheard of.
Neptune Beach is a beachfront city east of Jacksonville in Duval County, Florida, United States. When the majority of Duval County communities consolidated with Jacksonville in 1968, Neptune Beach, along with Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Baldwin remained quasi-independent. Like those other municipalities, it maintains its own municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and are represented on the Jacksonville city council. The population was 7,217 at the 2020 census. Neptune Beach is the smallest of the Jacksonville Beaches communities. it is part of the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
