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St. Augustine Beach

City, St. Johns County. Population 6,995 (2025), +0.3% on the prior year, +2.8% since 2020 Last updated 2026-10-04.

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St. Augustine Beach

Boundary: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line, simplified for drawing. 2.13 square miles of land.

Population

2025
BEBR, April 1, 20256,995BusinessFlare® estimate, April 1, 20267,016Population, April 1, 1979 to 202519797k high2025

BEBR's April 1, 2025 figure carried to April 1, 2026 at St. Johns County's growth rate of 3.10% a year, the annual rate in EDR's Demographic Estimating Conference county estimate for 2025 and medium projection for 2030, with the county's net new residents shared out to its places by their share of the county's net new residential units between the 2025 final and 2026 preliminary tax rolls.

Change since the prior year+0.3%2024 to 2025
Change since 2020+2.8%2020 to 2025
Census 20206,8032020

University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Florida Estimates of Population, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Demographic Estimating Conference: Projections of Florida Population by County, with Estimates for the base year, retrieved 2026-10-04 | Population estimates

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Basis of the latest figureestimate2025

Population by year

April 1 of each year. Basis is census in a census year, otherwise BEBR's estimate.

YearPopulationBasisChange
20256,995estimate+0.3%
20246,972estimate+0.3%
20236,953estimate+0.6%
20226,914estimate+0.4%
20216,888estimate+1.2%
20206,803census+0.8%
20196,749estimate+0.5%
20186,713estimate+1.2%
20176,633estimate+1.2%
20166,555estimate+1.2%
20156,480estimate+1.0%
20146,418estimate+1.1%
20136,351estimate+1.5%
20126,258estimate+0.4%
20116,234estimate+0.9%
20106,176census-2.2%
20096,313estimate+1.7%
20086,206estimate+2.9%
20076,031estimate+2.1%
20065,908estimate+3.3%
20055,718estimate+2.5%
20045,578estimate+7.0%
20035,214estimate+4.2%
20025,003estimate+2.9%
20014,861estimate+3.8%
20004,683census+8.4%
19994,320estimate+5.0%
19984,115estimate+0.2%
19974,108estimate-0.2%
19964,116estimate+2.3%
19954,024estimate+3.7%
19943,882estimate+1.8%
19933,814estimate+0.3%
19923,801estimate+2.7%
19913,701estimaten/a
19893,407estimate+8.7%
19883,133estimate+3.0%
19873,042estimate+6.0%
19862,871estimate+2.9%
19852,789estimate+14.7%
19842,432estimate+22.8%
19831,981estimate+10.0%
19821,801estimate+16.9%
19811,541estimaten/a
19791,227estimaten/a

Labor force (county figures)

Aug 2026

County figures, no city estimate published by FloridaCommerce

Unemployment rate (St. Johns County)4.7%Unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, Aug 2016 to Aug 2026Aug 201610.8% highAug 2026
Labor force (St. Johns County)157,452Aug 2026
Employment (St. Johns County)150,068Aug 2026
Unemployed (St. Johns County)7,384Aug 2026
Rate a year earlier4.3%Aug 2025
Labor force, change on a year earlier-0.4%Aug 2026

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Labor force page

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Latest month is preliminaryyesAug 2026

Monthly, last three years

Not seasonally adjusted. The latest month may be preliminary.

MonthLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
Aug 2026157,452150,0687,3844.7%
Jul 2026157,153149,6447,5094.8%
Jun 2026158,015150,5957,4204.7%
May 2026156,747149,4997,2484.6%
Apr 2026156,419148,9867,4334.8%
Mar 2026156,056148,8907,1664.6%
Feb 2026156,935149,1477,7885.0%
Jan 2026156,099148,1547,9455.1%
Dec 2025156,793149,6757,1184.5%
Nov 2025157,934149,9897,9455.0%
Sep 2025158,431151,7246,7074.2%
Aug 2025158,147151,3256,8224.3%
Jul 2025158,232151,6776,5554.1%
Jun 2025157,701151,4866,2153.9%
May 2025157,064151,4595,6053.6%
Apr 2025156,816151,5085,3083.4%
Mar 2025157,185151,6955,4903.5%
Feb 2025156,214150,7525,4623.5%
Jan 2025157,169151,5565,6133.6%
Dec 2024157,929153,0954,8343.1%
Nov 2024158,104152,5535,5513.5%
Oct 2024159,416154,0535,3633.4%
Sep 2024159,657154,3645,2933.3%
Aug 2024159,871154,0995,7723.6%
Jul 2024160,204154,4415,7633.6%
Jun 2024159,306153,8435,4633.4%
May 2024158,036153,3244,7123.0%
Apr 2024157,279152,9314,3482.8%
Mar 2024157,423152,6724,7513.0%
Feb 2024156,351151,5594,7923.1%
Jan 2024156,258151,3634,8953.1%
Dec 2023153,759149,5104,2492.8%
Nov 2023154,636149,9924,6443.0%
Oct 2023155,550150,7524,7983.1%
Sep 2023155,927151,1924,7353.0%
Aug 2023155,615150,7624,8533.1%

Annual averages

YearLabor forceEmployedUnemployedRate
2025157,426151,1686,2584.0%
2024158,319153,1915,1283.2%
2023153,875149,5734,3022.8%
2022147,827144,0703,7572.5%
2021138,603134,0044,5993.3%
2020129,009121,6597,3505.7%
2019126,310122,7213,5892.8%
2018121,191117,4163,7753.1%
2017116,537112,3104,2273.6%
2016111,720107,2274,4934.0%
2015113,237108,7324,5054.0%
2014109,944104,5685,3764.9%
2013106,644100,5816,0635.7%
2012103,15996,1716,9886.8%
2011101,03293,0857,9477.9%

Sales and visitor spending

12 months to Mar 2026
BusinessFlare® estimate, last 12 months$282.0M

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Economic Census geographic area series, retail trade and accommodation and food services, 2017 and 2022, retrieved 2026-10-01; BusinessFlare® city-level sales and visitor spending estimate (method and error; the figures are Street Economics Pass data), retrieved 2026-10-04 | How the estimate is made

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BusinessFlare® estimate from public sources. The estimate anchors on the sales the US Census Bureau published for this place in the 2017 and 2022 Economic Census, for retail trade and for accommodation and food services, and moves them month by month with the county's sales tax returns by kind of business (Florida Department of Revenue Form 10). After the 2022 anchor the place's share of the county moves with the growth of its commercial property on the Department's 2026 tax roll, as submitted by the county property appraiser, by use code: stores, shopping centers, supermarkets and auto dealers for retail; restaurants, bars and hotels for accommodation and food. The three spending groups follow the county's kind code mix within each sector. Every place with both anchors was carried from 2017 to 2022 the same way and the landing on the 2022 Census figure is the published error.

A landing error over 25% carries a wide error flag. The error is published with every figure; an estimate is never shown without it. Rounded to the nearest hundred thousand dollars; the monthly series is pass data.

Statewide median error, 2017 to 2022 back-test15.7%2017 to 2022
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): Census sales 2017$97.7M2017
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): Census sales 2022$140M2022
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45): 2022 landing error0.8%2022
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): Census sales 2017$51.6M2017
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): Census sales 2022$93.3M2022
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72): 2022 landing error0.5%2022

Economic Census anchors and the back-test

SectorCensus sales 2017Census sales 20222017 carried to 2022Landing error
Retail trade (NAICS 44-45)$97.7M$140M$141M0.8%
Accommodation and food services (NAICS 72)$51.6M$93.3M$92.8M0.5%

Business base

Aug 2026
Licensed food service, lodging and alcohol businesses289New licenses by month, Sep 2016 to Aug 2026Sep 20167 highAug 2026
Food service licenses52Aug 2026
Lodging licenses203Aug 2026
Alcoholic beverage licenses34Aug 2026
New licenses, last 12 months7Aug 2026

Florida DBPR active licensure base files: public food service, public lodging and retail alcoholic beverage licenses, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Licenses

Licenses are placed inside the city limits by their geocoded address.

No ZIP code has its Census internal point inside this place, so ZIP Code Business Patterns are not shown.

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Licenses by type

Counted licenses in DBPR's food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage files, placed by geocoded address.

License typeFileActive
2007-DWEL-SNGLlodging83
2006-CNDO-SNGLlodging55
2010-SEATfood44
2007-DWEL-CLCTlodging24
2COPalcohol15
2006-CNDO-CLCTlodging13
2006-CNDO-GRPlodging10
2002-MOTLlodging7
2APSalcohol6
4COP-SFSalcohol6
2001-HOTLlodging6
2010-NOSTfood4
4COP-Salcohol3
3PSalcohol2
4COPalcohol2
2013-CATRfood2
2014-MFDVfood2
2003-NAPTlodging2
2007-DWEL-GRPlodging2
2005-BNBlodging1

Building permits

Aug 2026
Housing units permitted, last 12 months9Housing units permitted by month, Sep 2016 to Aug 2026Sep 201610 highAug 2026
Change on the 12 months before-55.0%Aug 2026
Permit valuation, last 12 months$7.37MAug 2026
Units, latest month0Aug 2026
Single family units, last 12 months9Aug 2026
Units in buildings of 5 or more, last 12 months0Aug 2026
Units, latest annual table122025

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, place and county residential permits, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Building permits

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Monthly, last three years

Residential permits as the Bureau publishes them; imputed months are the Bureau's imputations.

MonthUnits1 unit5 or moreValuation
Aug 2026000$0
Jul 2026110$808K
Jun 2026000$0
May 2026000$0
Apr 2026110$900K
Mar 2026110$1.2M
Feb 2026000$0
Jan 2026110$703K
Dec 2025330$2.12M
Nov 2025000$0
Oct 2025220$1.64M
Sep 2025000$0
Aug 2025110$990K
Jul 2025000$0
Jun 2025000$0
May 2025110$1M
Apr 2025000$0
Mar 2025220$1.17M
Feb 2025330$2.15M
Jan 2025000$0
Dec 2024800$2M
Nov 2024110$1.21M
Oct 2024220$1.25M
Sep 2024220$1.27M
Aug 2024110$421K
Jul 2024110$1.5M
Jun 2024110$500K
May 2024110$650K
Apr 2024110$700K
Mar 2024000$0
Feb 2024000$0
Jan 2024330$1.45M
Dec 2023220$866K
Nov 2023110$700K
Oct 2023000$0
Sep 2023000$0

Annual table

YearUnits1 unit5 or moreValuation
202512120$9.07M
202421130$11M
202313130$7.52M
202224240$12.7M
202120200$11.3M
202022220$10.9M
201941410$18.9M
201843430$17.4M
201721210$6.2M
201646460$12.7M
201549490$12.7M
201442420$10.3M
201339370$8.97M
201245450$10.6M
201117170$4.21M

Property roll

2026 preliminary
Total just value$2.92B
Total taxable value (non school)$2.17B2026 preliminary
Total taxable value (school)$2.29B2026 preliminary
Just value, change on the prior roll-0.8%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Taxable value (non school), change on the prior roll+3.8%2025 final roll to 2026 preliminary
Total just value, prior roll$2.94B2025 final roll
New construction value$29.2M2026 preliminary
Parcels4,8622026 preliminary

Florida Department of Revenue, NAL tax roll (name, address, legal), 2026 preliminary and final as posted, retrieved 2026-10-04

Parcels are placed by Census block group through the Census Bureau's block assignment file; a parcel in a block group that straddles the limits is apportioned. Census 2020 block groups; 54% of the county's just value lies in a place. Medians are over the parcels whose block group lies mostly in the place. Qualified sales: the roll's own sale fields, qualification codes 01 and 02, improved, single parcel.

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Median single family just value$626K2026 preliminary
Qualified sales, last 12 months196Jun 2025 to May 2026
Median qualified sale price$612KJun 2025 to May 2026
Just value, residential$2.57B2026 preliminary
Just value, commercial$242M2026 preliminary
Just value, industrial$2.8M2026 preliminary
Just value, vacant$70.2M2026 preliminary
Just value, institutional$4.92M2026 preliminary
Just value, government$27.3M2026 preliminary
Just value, other$502K2026 preliminary

Just value by use group

Department of Revenue land use codes grouped: residential 001 to 009, commercial 011 to 039, industrial 041 to 049, agricultural 050 to 069, vacant 000, 010, 040 and 070, institutional 071 to 079, government 080 to 089, other 090 to 099. Taxable is the non school taxable value. Just value change compares with the 2025 final roll, summed the same way.

Use groupParcelsJust valueTaxable (non school)New constructionResidential unitsJust value change
Residential4,502$2.57B$1.89B$17.7M4,365-1.8%
Commercial113$242M$210M$11.4Mn/a+8.6%
Industrial2$2.8M$2.8M$4.21Kn/a+1.5%
Vacant190$70.2M$63.5M$19.7Kn/a+3.3%
Institutional2$4.92M$1.32M$0n/a+72.4%
Government22$27.3M$0$0n/a+1.1%
Other30$502K$8.93K$0n/a+4.6%

Housing

2020 to 2024 ACS
Housing units4,553Homeownership rate, 1990 to 2024199074.8% high2024
Occupied units3,1332020 to 2024 ACS
Vacant units1,4202020 to 2024 ACS
Owner occupied households2,3282020-2024 5-Year
Renter occupied households8052020-2024 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.3%2020 to 2024 ACS
Cost burdened households, all tenures (over 30% of income)25.6%2025
Cost burdened renter households41.5%2025

Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse, retrieved 2026-10-01 | Housing data

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Severely cost burdened renters (over 50%)20.8%2025
Median gross rent$1.81K2020 to 2024 ACS
Median single family sale price$760K2024

Cost burden by income, 2025

Households by the share of income spent on housing, Shimberg Center estimates for 2025.

TenureIncome (share of area median)30% or less30.1 to 50%Over 50%
All households30% AMI or less00198
All households30.01-50% AMI372840
All households50.01-80% AMI29697174
All households80.01-120% AMI1031620
All householdsGreater than 120% AMI1,9834984
Renters30% AMI or less0082
Renters30.01-50% AMI15036
Renters50.01-80% AMI09746
Renters80.01-120% AMI36560
RentersGreater than 120% AMI410100
Owners30% AMI or less00116
Owners30.01-50% AMI22284
Owners50.01-80% AMI2960128
Owners80.01-120% AMI671060
OwnersGreater than 120% AMI1,5733984

Single family sales by year

YearMedian priceSales
1996$100K66
1997$115K79
1998$115K84
1999$138K100
2000$145K103
2001$155K105
2002$200K119
2003$265K123
2004$323K121
2005$420K196
2006$456K139
2007$355K141
2008$300K127
2009$286K78
2010$280K90
2011$281K88
2012$305K97
2013$321K126
2014$322K118
2015$360K146

Fiscal

Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, latest month$57.6KHalf-cent sales tax distributions by month, Oct 2016 to Sep 2026Oct 2016$71.3K highSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, fiscal year to date$663KFY2026 to Sep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, last 12 months$663KSep 2026
Half-cent sales tax, change on the 12 months before-6.8%Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, latest month$19.2KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, fiscal year to date$236KFY2026 to Sep 2026
State revenue sharing, last 12 months$236KSep 2026
State revenue sharing, change on the 12 months before+1.2%Sep 2026

Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, Expenditures and Revenues Reported by Florida's County and Municipal Governments, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Department of Revenue, Revenue Confirmation Online, distributions to local governments, retrieved 2026-10-01; Florida Department of Financial Services, LOGERx local government Annual Financial Report data, long-term debt outstanding, retrieved 2026-10-04 | Distributions Annual financial report

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Total revenues$12.6MFY2024
Revenues, change on the year before+2.3%FY2024
Total expenditures$11.8MFY2024
Expenditures, change on the year before-3.6%FY2024
Revenues per resident$1.81KFY2024
Long-term debt outstanding at year end$4.41MFY2025
Long-term debt, change on the year before-10.2%FY2025

Half-cent sales tax, monthly distributions

As the Department of Revenue's ledger prints them; a blank month is a month with no line.

MonthDistributed
Sep 2026$57.6K
Aug 2026$58.2K
Jul 2026$56.8K
Jun 2026$57.5K
May 2026$63K
Apr 2026$53.1K
Mar 2026$51.4K
Feb 2026$63.1K
Jan 2026$52.1K
Dec 2025$52.3K
Nov 2025$49.7K
Oct 2025$48.5K
Sep 2025$64.5K
Aug 2025$62.4K
Jul 2025$60.8K
Jun 2025$64.5K
May 2025$67.1K
Apr 2025$62.7K
Mar 2025$48.9K
Feb 2025$67.2K
Jan 2025$57.7K
Dec 2024$53.1K
Nov 2024$51K
Oct 2024$51.7K
Sep 2024$60.6K
Aug 2024$62.2K
Jul 2024$63.1K
Jun 2024$65K
May 2024$70.5K
Apr 2024$60.5K
Mar 2024$55.3K
Feb 2024$68.4K
Jan 2024$55.6K
Dec 2023$55.9K
Nov 2023$56.9K
Oct 2023$53.7K

State revenue sharing, monthly distributions

As the Department of Revenue's ledger prints them; a blank month is a month with no line.

MonthDistributed
Sep 2026$19.2K
Aug 2026$19.2K
Jul 2026$19.2K
Jun 2026$19.4K
May 2026$19.4K
Apr 2026$19.4K
Mar 2026$19.4K
Feb 2026$19.4K
Jan 2026$19.4K
Dec 2025$20.6K
Nov 2025$20.6K
Oct 2025$20.6K
Sep 2025$21.2K
Aug 2025$21.2K
Jul 2025$21.2K
Jun 2025$18.4K
May 2025$18.4K
Apr 2025$18.4K
Mar 2025$18.4K
Feb 2025$18.4K
Jan 2025$18.4K
Dec 2024$18.4K
Nov 2024$20.2K
Oct 2024$20.2K
Sep 2024$20.2K
Aug 2024$20.2K
Jul 2024$20.2K
Jun 2024$20.6K
May 2024$20.6K
Apr 2024$20.6K
Mar 2024$20.6K
Feb 2024$20.6K
Jan 2024$20.6K
Dec 2023$20.6K
Nov 2023$20.6K
Oct 2023$20.6K

Long-term debt by fiscal year

Total long-term debt outstanding at fiscal year end, all funds, as the government reported it to the Department of Financial Services in its Annual Financial Report.

Fiscal yearDebt outstandingChange
FY2025$4.41M-10.2%
FY2024$4.91M-11.9%
FY2023$5.57M-12.5%
FY2022$6.37M-4.1%
FY2021$6.64M-9.0%
FY2020$7.3M-7.6%
FY2019$7.89M-4.2%
FY2018$8.24M-5.2%
FY2017$8.69M-6.3%
FY2016$9.28M+56.8%
FY2015$5.92M-5.0%
FY2014$6.23M-4.1%
FY2013$6.5Mn/a

Revenues by category, FY2024

Sum of the fund columns in EDR's workbook for this government.

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Taxes$6.78M$6.39M+6.1%
Permits, Fees, and Special Assessments$1.24M$1.16M+6.7%
Intergovernmental Revenues$2.11M$2.23M-5.0%
Charges for Services$1.73M$1.68M+3.2%
Judgments, Fines, and Forfeits$46.2K$42.7K+8.1%
Miscellaneous Revenues$474K$392K+20.9%
Other Sources$199K$415K-52.1%
Taxesn/an/an/a
Intergovernmental Revenuen/an/an/a
Permits and Franchise Feesn/an/an/a

Expenditures by category, FY2024

Sum of the fund columns in EDR's workbook for this government.

CategoryFY2024FY2023Change
General Government Services (Not Court-Related)$3.22M$3M+7.1%
Public Safety$4.03M$3.7M+8.9%
Physical Environment$937K$1.34M-30.3%
Transportation$2.94M$2.46M+19.2%
Culture / Recreation$528K$1.4M-62.3%
Other Uses and Non-Operating$173K$354K-51.1%
Other Usesn/an/an/a
Economic Environmentn/an/an/a
Human Servicesn/an/an/a

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