Community Details at a Glance
The Homes
Builders
Pulte, Drees, and Lennar (three-builder)
Size
About 1,840 to 4,801 sq ft
Lots
40 to 60 ft; many back water or preserve
Status
Built out (about 2018 to 2022); resale
Costs & Fees
HOA
About $1,220 a year; confirm current
CDD
Est. 2015; roughly $1,300 to $1,543 a year
Total fees
Among the most modest on the CR-210 corridor
Confirm
HOA, CDD, and inclusions per home
Amenities
Clubhouse
Right-sized clubhouse, pool, and fitness
Setting
Inside the Twin Creeks master plan
Water
Many homesites back water or preserve
Schools
Top-rated St. Johns County district
Location
Area
Eastern CR-210 corridor near US-1, 32095
Access
I-95 via CR-210
Beaches
Ponte Vedra and Nocatee a short drive
History
Minutes to historic St. Augustine
The Homes & Style
Creekside at Twin Creeks is a 591-homesite community inside the larger Twin Creeks master plan, built by three national builders, Pulte, Drees, and Lennar, with the primary build-out running roughly 2018 to 2022. That multi-builder mix is the first thing to understand here: floor plans range from about 1,840 to 4,801 square feet across three product lines, so two homes a street apart can be very different houses. Comps have to be matched to the builder and the plan, not just the square footage.
Because the community is young and largely original-owner, condition is rarely the problem it is in older neighborhoods; the bigger value swing is the lot. Homesites run roughly 40 to 60 feet wide, and the homes that back to one of the community lakes or to nature preserve have carried real premiums over interior lots. Recent third-party asking prices we verified ran from the high $390s to the upper $600s, with the practical heart of the market in the $400s to low $500s. Price any specific home off closed sales matched to builder, plan, and lot backing.
The honest read on a recent-build community like this is that the house itself is rarely where you win or lose; it is the lot, the fee stack, and how the corridor's continuing new construction prices against resales. Creekside's quiet edge is a fee load that undercuts most of its CR-210 rivals, which is exactly the kind of advantage that shows up at resale.
Living Here
The amenity package is deliberately right-sized. The clubhouse at 236 Switchgrass Road centers a swimming pool and fitness center, with a park and playground and community lakes for fishing and kayaking. There is no lagoon and no lazy river, and that restraint is the whole point: it is exactly why the fee stack stays modest compared with the corridor's resort-amenity plans. The Beachwalk Crystal Lagoon nearby is a separate paid club, not a Creekside amenity.
The location is the other quiet advantage. Creekside sits at the eastern end of County Road 210 near US-1, which puts St. Augustine roughly 15 to 20 minutes south without touching the interstate, while I-95 is a short run west on CR-210 for the Jacksonville commute, with the Southside roughly 30 to 40 minutes. The CR-210 corridor's own retail keeps growing, so more daily errands stay on this end of the road. If your life points south to St. Augustine, this geometry beats the I-95-cluster communities; if you commute north every day, those save a few minutes.
The community sits in the St. Johns County School District, the top-rated district in Florida, and the new Lakeside Academy K-8 opened inside the Twin Creeks master plan, with Beachside High on CR-210 serving the high-school years. St. Johns redraws attendance boundaries as it grows, so verify the current zoned schools for the exact address before you buy on schools.
Before You Offer
The Creekside at Twin Creeks Community Development District was established by St. Johns County on August 28, 2015, and its assessment appears on the property tax bill, recently roughly $1,300 to $1,543 a year depending on the homesite. That is genuinely modest for the CR-210 corridor, where several master plans run $2,400 a year and up or add mandatory club dues. The CDD line combines operations-and-maintenance with debt service that declines as bonds are paid down, and it is not reduced by the homestead exemption. Confirm the current assessment, the split, and any remaining bond balance for the specific lot, and ask whether the seller has prepaid the bond portion, which changes the math.
HOA dues have recently run about $1,220 a year, roughly $100 a month, covering the clubhouse, pool, fitness center, park, and common areas. Combined with the CDD, the total recurring fee load is among the lowest of the CR-210 master-planned communities. On a recent-build resale, model your own post-purchase tax number rather than relying on the seller's bill, since the assessed value can reset after a sale.
Two diligence items round out the list. The community lakes are part of the engineered stormwater system, typical of a modern master plan, so pull the FEMA flood determination for the exact parcel; water-adjacent lots especially deserve the check, and a bindable homeowners quote during the contract period puts the real premium in your monthly math. And confirm internet at the specific address, fiber in particular, since St. Johns construction of this era is generally well served but availability varies street by street.
Comparisons
Most buyers weighing Creekside are cross-shopping the other Twin Creeks and CR-210 communities, where the real differences are the amenity scale and the all-in monthly fee. Here is the honest shorthand.
| Community | The trade-off |
|---|---|
| Beacon Lake | Same Twin Creeks development area, bigger Lake House amenity campus, and a CDD that has run roughly $200 a month; choose it for the resort amenities, choose Creekside to keep roughly a thousand dollars or more a year. |
| Beachwalk | Built around its crystal lagoon, with a CDD plus mandatory club dues that together run several hundred dollars a month; the lagoon is genuinely unique, the question is whether you will fund it every month, forever. |
| Markland | Established CR-210 master plan a few minutes west toward I-95, similar school district and amenity feel; the choice usually comes down to the specific lot, the commute direction, and the fee math. |
The honest verdict: if you want a St. Johns County address with water and preserve lots, a real but right-sized amenity, and the lowest recurring fee stack on the corridor, Creekside is one of the best values on CR-210. If you want a resort lagoon or the biggest amenity campus and will use it enough to justify the dues, Beachwalk and Beacon Lake are the right field to shop, and we will help you weigh the amenity against the monthly.
Who It Fits
Creekside fits if you want
- A top-rated St. Johns County school district at a modest fee load.
- A young, low-maintenance home with broad multi-builder resale appeal.
- Water or preserve lots and a right-sized clubhouse, pool, and fitness amenity.
- An eastern-corridor position close to US-1 and St. Augustine.
- The lowest all-in monthly fee stack among the CR-210 master plans.
Consider elsewhere if you want
- A resort lagoon or the largest amenity campus on the corridor.
- To avoid a CDD assessment on the tax bill entirely.
- A faster daily commute north to the Jacksonville Southside.
- An older, established neighborhood with mature trees and no fees.
- A custom or estate home rather than production builder product.

















