Baldwin, Florida.
Typical home $209,242 (+3.0% in a year). Jacksonville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,029 +3%
- $203,212$209,242 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,901 +30%
- $161,341$209,242 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Baldwin$1,098
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Baldwin, FL rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baldwin, Duval County, Florida
Baldwin is a town of 1,396 people in Duval County. Unemployment in Duval County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Baldwin is a small town in Duval County, in the northeast of Florida, and it is much smaller than the city of Jacksonville that surrounds it. Homes here are valued well below what is typical for the country as a whole, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is usual. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is common nationally. Winters are mild, with January highs in the mid-range and lows that stay above freezing, while summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Duval County, some of the largest workplaces are Duval Schools, Baptist Medical Center and Shands Jacksonville Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year earlier, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The closest outdoor option is Cary State Forest, a protected area just a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Jacksonville's cultural side, including the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, a museum with its own gardens, and the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. For a day out on the water or under the trees, Kingsley Lake and Osceola National Forest are also a longer drive away.
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- 546households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Duval County had 561,407 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Whitehouse Nolf weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Duval County
- Duval SchoolsSchool district11,094FTE
- Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital7,078FTE
- First Coast Security ServicesSecurity guard services5,108
- Miller - Jacksonville HQLow voltage electrical work4,859
- Shands Jacksonville Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,582FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services4,315
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,123
- Johnson JohnsonMed tech vision2,896
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,031 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 176,808 people in all across the county; Baldwin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baldwin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Duval County and the Jacksonville, FL metro.
Baldwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baldwin$209,242
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Baldwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baldwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.