Ponte Vedra address, St. Johns County government, a slice in Duval, not in Jacksonville, and 55+ villages under one name. Here’s the map in words — and why each distinction hits your tax bill.
Nocatee is an unincorporated master-planned community, mostly in St. Johns County, carrying a Ponte Vedra mailing address (ZIP 32081) — with a smaller set of villages, including Del Webb Nocatee, across the line in Duval County. It is not part of Jacksonville, not part of Ponte Vedra Beach, and not a city at all: services come from the counties, and community infrastructure is governed by the Tolomato CDD (the Duval side’s original Split Pine CDD merged into Tolomato in 2009). “Ponte Vedra” on the address is postal geography, valuable for search engines and prestige, meaningless for government.
County line: St. Johns and Duval issue different tax bills with different millage — and assign different schools. Two Nocatee homes minutes apart can differ on both. Verify any specific home’s county on the property appraiser’s site, not the listing. Village: the CDD assessment varies by village and lot width from $1,315 to $3,539/yr on the St. Johns side (all 55 villages, district-verified, on our Nocatee CDD table), and HOA dues stack separately per village. Umbrella vs. village data: “Nocatee prices” blend wildly different products — the honest numbers live at village grain, which is why our Nocatee guide and each village’s own value page exist.
Rank the villages or tell you which “side” is better — that depends on your budget, commute, and what you’re optimizing, and the village-level data pages let you compare with real numbers. Boundaries and school assignments also change; verify the current facts for any specific parcel with St. Johns or Duval County before relying on them.
Geographic and governance facts from county records and Tolomato CDD documents (Split Pine merger: St. Johns County record CDD AMD-2009000001); assessment figures from the district’s FY2026 lookup as compiled on our linked tables. General information; parcel-level facts control.
Mostly neither, technically: Nocatee is an unincorporated master-planned community mostly in St. Johns County with a Ponte Vedra mailing address (32081), plus a smaller portion across the Duval County line. It is not inside Jacksonville's city limits, and 'Ponte Vedra' on the address reflects the postal zone, not a municipality - Nocatee is its own place governed by county government and the Tolomato CDD.
Primarily St. Johns County, with some villages (including Del Webb Nocatee) in Duval County. The county line changes your property-tax bill's issuer and rates, your assigned schools, and which county's services you use - two homes a mile apart in Nocatee can sit in different counties. Check the parcel, not the marketing map.
Many: 55+ villages on the St. Johns side alone (per the district's FY2026 assessment lookup), each with its own builder era, price range, HOA, and CDD assessment ($1,315-$3,539/yr by village and lot). 'Nocatee' is the umbrella; the village determines what you actually pay and get.
