Fleming Island is in another top list in the Jacksonville FL area - this time for entertainment and recreation spending. Fleming Island ranks #15 in the region at $50,064,000 spent on entertainment and recreation in the year 2013. That is an average of $5,000 per person for our area. At $5,000 per person, that would be about 10,000 residents on Fleming Island.
Keep in mind that entertainment and recreation encompass sports, theatre, movies and camping. Just a pair of season tickets to the Jaguars will set people back over $3,000, so it's not that difficult to come up with $5,000 in entertainment and recreation expenditures when you consider that. Season tickets to other events like theatre or a concert series will also run hundreds of dollars.
Fleming Island is a community in Clay County just south of Orange Park and home to lovely planned golf communities such as Eagle Harbor and Fleming Island Plantation. There are also many waterfront homes available and a guard-gated community called Pace Island.
Residents of Fleming Island like an active lifestyle with golf, tennis and boating very popular, so it is understandable that Fleming Island has one of the higher entertainment and recreation per capita amounts in the Jacksonville area. Fleming Island is also one of the top areas in the Northeast Florida region for individual wealth. With more disposable income, there is naturally a larger budget for entertainment and recreation.
The Ponte Vedra Beach area ranks #1 in the Jacksonville area of Northeast Florida fpr emtertainment and recreation, with $6,318 per person expenditure in 2013 for entertainment and recreation.
The Entertainment/Recreation Index is also mentioned in the article by Jacksonville Business Journal. 100 is an average for the index. Fleming Island's Entertainment Index is 154 and Ponte Vedra Beach's index is 194.
If a higher entertainment and recreation average indicates a more social community and that is what you are after, then the Fleming Island area is a good place to move to and start enjoying The Fleming Island Lifestyle!
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