Madison
Start with Madison to understand the established center, nearby services and everyday rhythm within Madison County.
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Madison
County
A rural county near the Georgia line with agriculture, historic town character and access to Interstate 10.
Rivers, springs and old FloridaNorth Florida & First Coast
REGIONNorth Florida & First Coast
COMMUNITIES TO START WITHMadison · Lee · Greenville
LIFESTYLE SIGNALSRural · Agriculture · Quiet pace
Start with daily life
What Madison County feels like before you choose a neighborhood.
A rural county near the Georgia line with agriculture, historic town character and access to Interstate 10.
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
- 18,089Census estimate
- At the last full count
- 17,9682020 Census
- Median age
- 44.8
- Aged 65 and over
- 22.9%
- Under 18
- 17.7%
- Median household income
- $48,485
- Median home value
- $116,200what owners estimate
- Homeownership
- 73.4%
- People per household
- 2.34
- Average commute
- 29.8 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
RuralAgricultureQuiet pace
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Property cost, flood and wind, schools, healthcare, daily travel and storm readiness.
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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.
Lee
Use Lee to compare housing patterns, main-road access and the shopping or medical stops used during a normal week.
Greenville
Walk or drive through Greenville at different times of day to judge traffic, neighborhood character and access to outdoor space.
Hospitals in Madison County
One hospital with an emergency room.
From the state's own hospital list. Each card opens the state's record for that hospital: its address, phone, services and inspection reports.
How do I compare hospitals in Florida? →How do I find a doctor who takes Medicare? →Search the state's hospital list ↗
Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, FloridaHealthFinder, Locate a Facility (hospitals), read September 25, 2026.
Evergreen county experiences
7 places that reveal the county.
Use enduring natural, historic and cultural places to understand the area beyond a real-estate showing.
Madison Blue Spring State Park
The basin is about eighty-two feet across and twenty-five feet deep, and a run of roughly a hundred feet carries the water down to the river. That single spring supplies close to a quarter of the Withlacoochee's flow, which gives some idea of the volume: a first-magnitude spring moves at least two thousand eight hundred liters every second.
Four Freedoms Park
The sculptor Walter Russell made the Four Freedoms statue in 1941, the year President Roosevelt set out the four freedoms in his State of the Union address: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Four angels on the monument stand for them.
Twin Rivers State Forest
The forest is not one block of ground but a string of pieces scattered across Madison, Hamilton and Suwannee counties, bought to protect the riverbanks and the springs that feed into them. The named tracts include Anderson Springs, Mill Creek South, Black, Damascus, Ellaville, Nekoosa, Withlacoochee, Blue Springs Longleaf, Chitty Bend West and East, Hardee Springs, Westwood East and West, Sullivan and Deese.
Treasures of Madison County Museum
Treasures of Madison County, Incorporated was set up to keep the county's history from being scattered, and it opened its first museum in the renovated old jail in 1998. That same year it acquired the W.
Suwannee River State Park
Two settlements stood on this ground and neither survives. Columbus was founded in 1841 and lived on riverboat traffic; its cemetery, begun in 1860, still holds twenty-three graves under stones of several different materials. Ellaville was a sawmill town built by George Drew, later governor of Florida, and it cut timber that went out by river and rail.
Jellystone Park Madison
The name has changed but the place and the facilities have not, so anyone who remembers it as Jellystone will recognize it. Jimmie and Latrelle Ragans own and run it. The water side is the reason families come: a sixty-foot waterslide, a lazy river and a zero-entry swimming pool, which is more than most campgrounds in north Florida offer.
Four Freedoms Trail
It follows the old Valdosta and Southern Railroad right of way for most of its length, which is why it is straight, level and well shaded in places. The southern end is at East Livingston Street and State Road 145 at Northeast Rocky Ford Road in Madison; the northern end is at the river on the state boundary, where there are picnic tables, a shelter and a spot to look out over the water.
Official planning desk
Check current public information before making the move.
Florida disaster preparedness mapsOfficial evacuation-zone, route and storm-surge planning maps.
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Florida school accountability reportsCurrent state school and district accountability information.
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Florida community health dataCounty-level public health indicators and community reports.
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Florida housing resourcesState resources for homebuyers, renters and local assistance programs.
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