Long Branch, also referred to as Longbranch, is a historic neighborhood on Jacksonville's Northside, platted during the mid-1880s by Col. James Jaquelin Daniel, a Civil War veteran and Jacksonville civic leader. The neighborhood sits just south of Evergreen Cemetery and takes its name from the creek that forms its northern border.
realMLS (Northeast Florida) sales records identify 122 homes in Long Branch that have changed hands since 2001, built between 1906 and 2026 (median 1943), with a median living area of about 1,078 sq ft and a typical 3-bedroom, 1-bath layout; 96% are single-family homes. Source: realMLS (Northeast Florida) closed-sale history compiled by Momentum Research; counts reflect homes with a recorded MLS sale, not every home in the community.
County records show 64 qualified sales in Long Branch across 2024–2025 (46 in 2024, 18 in 2025), median $142,500 — the last recorded sale per parcel on the Florida DOR 2025 assessment roll, independent of the MLS.
The area's growth accelerated in 1895, when the Jacksonville Street Railway extended a streetcar line through the neighborhood connecting Evergreen Cemetery and Panama Park to downtown. During that period, 21st Street emerged as Long Branch's main east-west thoroughfare and business district, and the founding of the Cummer Lumber Company nearby in 1896 helped anchor the area as a residential community for the surrounding industrial workforce.
Long Branch is grouped today with neighboring Brentwood, Panama Park, Tallulah, and North Shore as part of Jacksonville's Metro North district. It is a traditional, unplatted-by-HOA city-grid neighborhood of older single-family homes rather than a builder subdivision, so buyers should expect the usual due diligence of an established urban neighborhood: verify the age and condition of roof, electrical, and plumbing systems, and check the parcel's permit and code-enforcement history before making an offer.
