Complete Florida county guide

Jefferson
County

Historic Monticello, farms, springs and open land offer a rural setting east of Tallahassee.

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Northwest FloridaPanhandle & Emerald Coast

REGIONPanhandle & Emerald Coast

COMMUNITIES TO START WITHMonticello · Lloyd · Wacissa

LIFESTYLE SIGNALSHistoric town · Acreage · Springs

Start with daily life

What Jefferson County feels like before you choose a neighborhood.

Historic Monticello, farms, springs and open land offer a rural setting east of Tallahassee.

Use this guide as a first-pass planning tool. On a scouting trip, compare actual commute routes, insurance requirements, medical access, school or training options and the places you would use in an ordinary week—not only the best-known attraction.

The numbers that matter if you are moving

Population: 15,091Census estimate
At the last full count: 14,5102020 Census
Median age: 47.6
Aged 65 and over: 24.5%
Under 18: 17.2%
Median household income: $61,212
Median home value: $232,600what owners estimate
Homeownership: 75.9%
People per household: 2.43
Average commute: 29.4 minutes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, published January 2026, read September 19, 2026. Survey figures are estimates; median home value is what owners estimate their home is worth, not a sale price.

COUNTY LIFESTYLE THEMES

Historic townAcreageSprings

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Communities to compare

Begin with the county’s major places.

These are starting points, not a ranking. Add nearby towns and neighborhoods as you learn your daily route and housing priorities.

Monticello

Start with Monticello to understand the established center, nearby services and everyday rhythm within Jefferson County.

Lloyd

Use Lloyd to compare housing patterns, main-road access and the shopping or medical stops used during a normal week.

Wacissa

Walk or drive through Wacissa at different times of day to judge traffic, neighborhood character and access to outdoor space.

Hospitals in Jefferson County

No licensed hospital inside Jefferson County.

The state's hospital list names none in the county. Its search by address finds the hospitals nearest any home you are considering.

How do I compare hospitals in Florida? →How do I find a doctor who takes Medicare? →Find the hospitals nearest an address ↗

Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder, Locate a Facility (hospitals), read September 25, 2026.

Evergreen county experiences

8 places that reveal the county.

Use enduring natural, historic and cultural places to understand the area beyond a real-estate showing.

HISTORY & HERITAGE

Monticello Historic District

The district runs in an irregular shape along Madison, Jefferson, Dogwood and Washington Streets, and the listed area takes in some three thousand acres. What was built here went up between 1828 and about 1900, and the styles run through almost everything that was going in that period: Frame Vernacular, Victorian, Classical Revival, Romanesque Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate and Stick-Eastlake, often within sight of one another.

See the complete guide →Official site ↗Map ↗

HISTORY & HERITAGE

Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park

Mound 1 stands about forty-nine feet high. It was raised in three stages, beginning some time after the late third or early fourth century, by people of the Swift Creek and then the Weeden Island cultures who built and lived on this site between roughly the years 200 and 900.

See the complete guide →Official site ↗Map ↗

WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION

Aucilla Wildlife Management Area

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission manages it. Two rivers run through, and they could not be less alike. The Aucilla is dark water threading past karst formations, with sinks where the river drops underground and comes back up again, and it is the harder paddle of the two.

See the complete guide →Visitor source ↗Map ↗

FLORIDA PLACE TO EXPLORE

Monticello Opera House

W. R. Gunn, an architect from Chattanooga, designed and built it for the businessman John H.

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MUSEUM & CULTURE

Jefferson County Historical Association Museum

The Jefferson County Historical Association was chartered in 1962 to keep the county's history, and it has been at it for more than sixty years. In 1964 it bought the Wirick-Simmons House, which was then neglected, and made it both headquarters and museum.

See the complete guide →Map ↗

WATER & COAST

Wacissa River

The head of it is a cluster of springs pushing up clear water, and the put-in is at Wacissa Springs County Park, which is a busy place on a weekend. Below that the river runs clear enough to watch fish under the boat.

See the complete guide →Official site ↗Map ↗

PARKS & OUTDOORS

Monticello Ecological Park

That is the unusual part. Protected old-growth standing within the boundary of a small rural town is rare anywhere, and what is here is upland forest of mixed hardwood and pine that is believed never to have been cut, though no record exists to prove the age of the trees.

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FLORIDA PLACE TO EXPLORE

Aunt Louise's Farm

The animals are the draw and the list is long: alpaca, chickens of every sort, donkeys, ducks, emus, geese, goats, highland cows, horses, peacocks, pigs, quail, rabbits, a tortoise, turkeys and zebu. Around them are wagon rides, barrel train rides, a rubber duck race, a corn pit and the corn maze the farm is known for locally.

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