Rank

2591of 3,144

Duval, Florida

Score 5.39 / 10· population 1,030,822

Duval County, Florida, reaches the Atlantic at the mouth of the St. Johns River, 15 miles east of Jacksonville, where Naval Station Mayport has about 8,500 Navy and Coast Guard members. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts, which leave uniformed forces out, put government at 52,877 of the county's 563,527 jobs in 2024, about 9%, below Florida's 11%. Homicides ran at 14.3 per 100,000 residents a year over 2016 to 2022, more than double Florida's 6.4.

Sources
  • Naval Station Mayport is located 15 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, at the mouth of the St. Johns River in Duval County, where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean installations.militaryonesource.mil
  • Naval Station Mayport has 8,500 service members of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard operating forces, 1,400 civilian employees, and more than 11,000 personnel on the installation daily installations.militaryonesource.mil
  • The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages excludes members of the armed forces bls.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), Duval County had 563,527 covered jobs, of which 52,877 were federal (18,102), state (10,801) or local (23,974) government, about 9.4% data.bls.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), government held 1,107,316 of Florida's 9,836,491 covered jobs, about 11.3% data.bls.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data: homicide rate is 14.3 deaths per 100,000 in Duval County (964 homicides) and 6.4 in Florida countyhealthrankings.org
  • The County Health Rankings 2025 release used 2016-2022 data for homicides countyhealthrankings.org

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)7.6
  2. 2A (state)8.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President5.1
  4. Sales tax3.2
  5. Property tax6.3

Environment

  1. Air quality4.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.2

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate3.2
  2. Life expectancy4.9
  3. Government employees9.7
  4. Single-parent households1.4

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