Ortega Forest
Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

Ortega Forest market snapshot (as of July 14, 2026): the median sale price is about $615K ($258 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), a median 29 days on market for closed sales, and 1.8 months of supply, a balanced market. The trailing-12-month median is down 18% from the prior 12 months and up 146% since 2012, computed from record-level realMLS closed sales (20 closings in the current window).

Ortega Forest is a community of 875 homes in Jacksonville, Duval County, built between 1938 and 2024 (median 1958), with a median living area of about 2,748 square feet. 86% of parcels are homesteaded, the owner-occupancy proxy in the Florida DOR assessment roll (2025 roll, public records).

A 875-home pocket of Duval County with housing stock spanning nearly a century of construction (1938-2024, median year built 1958), which means lot size, square footage, and condition vary block to block far more than the median price alone suggests.

• John Stockton Elementary SchoolFLDOE grade A · Public K-5
• Lake Shore Middle SchoolFLDOE grade C · Public 6-8
• Riverside High SchoolFLDOE grade C · Public 9-12

Grades are official Florida Department of Education school grades for 2025-26. Assignments are reported as of the 2025-26 year and can change; always confirm with Duval County Public Schools for a specific address.

Buying with schools in mind? We can confirm the exact zoned schools for any Ortega Forest address.

Two numbers in this snapshot pull in opposite directions and both are true at once: median price is up 146% since 2012, but down 18% over the past year. The long-run gain reflects over a decade of market movement across many more transactions; the year-over-year figure is drawn from just 20 closings, a small enough sample that mix -- which specific homes happened to close -- matters as much as any shift in underlying value. Neither number should be read in isolation.

The current inventory picture reinforces that this is not a high-volume market to read casually: one active listing against 875 total homes. With homestead exemptions filed on 86.4% of the housing stock, most of this inventory is owner-occupied rather than held as investment or rental property, which is part of why so little comes to market at any given time. When something does list, it tends to move -- 29 median days on market -- but buyers and sellers alike are working with a small data set, not a deep, liquid pipeline of comparable sales.

With only 20 closings behind the current median and a single home active at any given time, this is not a neighborhood where a generic online estimate holds up -- the spread in home age (1938 to 2024) and living area around a 2,748 sqft median means two comparable-looking closings can price very differently. That is exactly the kind of market where a hand-prepared valuation, built off the specific home and the specific recent comps rather than a blended average, is worth the extra step before pricing a listing or writing an offer.

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Ortega Forest is served by the Ortega Forest Neighborhood Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with voluntary annual household contributions of $75, used to maintain and beautify the neighborhood's three entrances. This is a voluntary neighborhood association, not a mandatory HOA with deeded covenants shown on the site.

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