Community Details at a Glance
The Homes
Product
Townhomes (18ft Hickory Run, 28ft Willow Run) plus 50ft and 70ft single-family (Magnolia Run, Red Oak Run)
Builder
Pulte, concrete block, mostly 2005 to 2006
Sizes
Roughly 1,650 to 2,900 square feet across the four product lines
Ownership
Fee-simple townhome and single-family, not condo
Costs & Fees
HOA
Varies by sub-neighborhood; one townhome listing referenced about 217 dollars per month, confirm your section
CDD
None found in third-party sources; verify on title
Reality
Block construction helps insurance versus the frame product nearby
Amenities
Gate
Controlled access off Gate Parkway West at Belfort Road
Clubhouse
Community clubhouse and fitness center
Pool
Community pool
Lake
Shared community lake
Location
Setting
Southside Jacksonville, Belfort Road at Gate Parkway West, ZIP 32256
Shopping
St. Johns Town Center and Tinseltown about 5 minutes
Access
Minutes to J. Turner Butler Boulevard and I-295
Beaches
Jacksonville beaches about 20 minutes
The Homes & Style
Per Redfin trends fetched in June 2026, the Ironwood community median sale ran about 295,000 dollars at roughly 170 dollars per square foot, but that figure blends townhomes and single-family; the single-family segment showed a recently sold median around 498,000 dollars per Redfin in the same month.
The buyer pool is Town Center and Southside office workers, first-time buyers entering through the townhomes, and move-up buyers targeting the concrete block single-family streets.
Concrete block construction from 2005 to 2006 is a quiet underwriting advantage in this corridor, where much of the competing attached product is frame.
Ironwood is really four communities behind one gate, and the sub-neighborhood you pick changes the price, the product, and the HOA math.
The single-family sections, with the larger Pulte plans; this is where the recently sold median around 498,000 dollars per Redfin in June 2026 lives.
The 18-foot-wide townhomes, 2 to 3 bedrooms; the most compact and lowest-priced product in the community and the entry door for first-time buyers near the Town Center.
The 28-foot-wide 3 bedroom townhomes with 1-car garages; the middle product, wider than Hickory Run with the garage as the practical differentiator.
Aggregator medians blend townhome and single-family sales, which is how a 295,000 dollar community median and a 498,000 dollar single-family median coexist; always comp within the sub-neighborhood.
Living Here
The amenity package is the practical gated-community basics, maintained by the HOA.
The controlled access point off Gate Parkway and the headline feature at this price band.
The community gathering anchor.
The shared centerpiece for all four sub-neighborhoods.
Not an amenity on paper, but the 2005 to 2006 block build is part of what you are buying here.
St. Johns Town Center covers nearly every retail and dining category about five minutes away, Tinseltown adds the movie theater and restaurant row, and the Gate Parkway corridor fills in groceries and daily errands.
Redfin shows a 295,000 dollar community median while single-family resales run near 498,000 dollars per the same source in June 2026; buyers and sellers who comp against the blend misprice by six figures.
Most attached product near the Town Center is wood frame; Ironwood townhomes are concrete block, which matters for insurance quotes and long-term maintenance.
HOA dues and coverage differ by sub-neighborhood; two listings inside the same gate can carry meaningfully different monthly obligations.
Before You Offer
Jacksonville sees coastal, river, and creek flooding, and pockets near the St. Johns River tributaries can sit in higher-risk zones. Jacksonville participates in the FEMA Community Rating System at a class 6, which earns flood-insurance discounts of about 10 percent for homes outside a special flood hazard area and about 20 percent for homes inside one.
The reliable move is to pull the FEMA flood designation for the exact Ironwood address before you write an offer, since two homes in the same area can fall in different zones. A home in Zone X can cost far less to insure than one near water in Zone AE. Get a bindable flood and homeowners quote during your inspection period, so the cost is in your monthly math before you commit, not after.
The Jacksonville metro is served by Xfinity (Comcast) cable across nearly all addresses and by AT&T with DSL almost everywhere plus fiber to a growing share of homes. If working from home matters, confirm the options, and fiber in particular, at the specific Ironwood address rather than assuming.
Duval County total millage runs roughly 17.9 to 18.5 mills depending on the taxing district. The Florida homestead exemption for 2026 is 51,411 dollars for those who qualify, and the deadline to file a new homestead exemption is March 1.
The trap to plan for is the post-sale reset: when you buy, the Save Our Homes cap from the previous owner ends and the assessed value resets to the new just value, so your second-year tax bill is often higher than the seller current one. Budget the true number, and confirm whether the specific home carries a CDD or other assessment that is billed separately from the millage and is not reduced by the homestead exemption.
Comparisons
Ironwood's natural cross-shops are the other attainable gated addresses along the Gate Parkway and Deerwood corridor. Against Montreux at Deerwood Lake, Ironwood trades a lakefront-condo lifestyle for fee-simple townhomes and single-family with concrete block construction, which underwrites more cleanly than frame. Against the Point Meadows condos a few streets away, Ironwood buyers generally avoid condo-financing hurdles and special-assessment exposure, paying a higher entry price for that cleaner ownership. And against the older Deerwood-area single-family streets, Ironwood gives up lot size and mature canopy but gains a 2005 to 2006 build, a gate, and a shorter run to the Town Center. The honest summary: Ironwood wins on construction era and ownership structure, and gives ground on lot size and prestige to the established Deerwood communities.
Who It Fits
Ironwood fits the Town Center and Southside office worker who wants a gated, low-maintenance, concrete-block address inside five minutes of nearly every errand, the first-time buyer entering through a Hickory Run or Willow Run townhome, and the move-up buyer who wants a Magnolia Run or Red Oak Run single-family without leaving the corridor. It also fits the buyer who values block construction and a no-CDD tax line. It does not fit the buyer who wants a large lot or acreage feel, the buyer who needs new construction with a builder warranty, or the buyer chasing a marquee golf-and-country-club address; for those, the established Deerwood and Intracoastal West communities are the better targets. And anyone who comps Ironwood off a single blended median, rather than within their sub-neighborhood, will misread the value either way.



























