Fruit Cove ranks #4 – best Florida cities for job seekers

Historic City News has learned that financial literacy website, NerdWallet.com, has ranked Fruit Cove #4 in the state as the best cities for job seekers. The top 10 included no other city in Northeast Florida.

Technically, Fruit Cove is not a “city” — rather an unincorporated section of the county along CR-13 that has been designated by the US Postal Service as “St Johns”.

“Fruit Cove is a suburb of Jacksonville, in St Johns County. Fruit Cove has seen moderate population growth of 5.5 percent, but boasts a high employment rate of 70.3 percent and a median household income of $96,449, the highest on our list,” the website reported. “17.8 percent of the population work in education services, health care and social assistance; while 16.8 percent work in finance and insurance, real estate, rental and leasing.”

NerdWallet asked and answered three questions when determining its rankings:

1. Do people earn high salaries? It included median household income in the calculation.
2. Is the city growing? It assessed population growth of those 16 and over to ensure that the city is attracting workers.
3. Are most people employed? It looked at the employment rate to determine the percentage of the city that is working; taking into account retirement and unemployment to determine the best cities for job seekers.

Read the full report and see how other cities around the state were ranked at NerdWallet.com.