The 2024 Northeast Florida Jewish Community Study
Matthew A. Brookner, Janet Krasner Aronson, Matthew Boxer, Alicia B. Chandler, Leonard Saxe, Evan Herring-Nathan, David DutwinSeptember 2025
The 2024 Northeast Florida Jewish Community Study creates a portrait of the characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of the Jewish community in Northeast Florida. The study is based on an analysis of data collected from 846 eligible households between April and June 2024. We found the community has grown rapidly, with one quarter of all Jewish adults having moved to the area within the previous five years.
Among the Key Findings:
There are approximately 22,900 Jewish households in Northeast Florida. These Jewish households include 47,500 individuals, of whom 35,400 are Jewish.
- About one quarter each of Jewish households in Northeast Florida reside in the South Duval and North St. John’s (25%), Mandarin (22%), and Northern and Western Jacksonville (22%) regions. The remaining Jewish households live in the Urban Core (17%) and Beach Communities (13%) regions.
- Of the 6,100 children who reside in Jewish households in the Northeast Florida, more than half are considered Jewish exclusively (3,600, or 59% of all children). One quarter of children in Jewish households (1,500, or 25% of all children) are considered Jewish and another religion.
- Nearly one quarter of Northeast Florida Jewish households (24%) belong to some type of Jewish congregation. This category includes synagogues, an independent minyan or chavurah, Chabad, and other worship communities.
- A larger share of Northeast Florida Jewish adults attend services than belong to congregations. About half of Jewish adults (53%) attended at least one Jewish worship service in the previous year. More than one third of Jewish adults (37%) attended High Holiday services in 2023.
- In the past year, slightly more than half of Jewish adults participated in at least one Jewish-sponsored program, including 26% who participated rarely, 18% who participated sometimes, and 13% who participated often.
- Nineteen percent of Jewish adults volunteered for or with Jewish organizations in the previous year, and 31% of Jewish households donated to at least one Jewish organization.
- The majority of Jewish adults feel part of at least one community within Northeast Florida, either Jewish or not Jewish. Just 15% of Jewish adults do not feel at all part of a local community.
- A majority of Jewish adults feel some level of emotional attachment to Israel, with 44% feeling very attached and 37% feeling somewhat attached.
- About half of Jewish adults in Northeast Florida have been to Israel, including 21% who have visited once, 24% who have visited more than once, and 7% who have lived in Israel.
- Most Jewish adults (81%) are very concerned about antisemitism around the world, and 72% are very concerned about antisemitism in the United States. By contrast, 36% are very concerned about antisemitism locally in Northeast Florida.
- Two percent of Northeast Florida Jewish households report they cannot make ends meet, and another 17% indicate they are just managing to make ends meet. More than one third of Jewish households (38%) believe they have enough money, 25% feels they have extra money, and 18% describe themselves as well-off.
- Sixteen percent of Jewish households had to limit or change their involvement in Jewish life due to their financial situation. The most frequent limitation was being unable to contribute as much to Jewish causes, with 11% of households limited in this way.
- Twelve percent of Jewish adults describe their physical health as “only fair” (11%) or “poor” (1%), and 5% describe their mental health as “only fair” (4%) or “poor” (1%). In total, 14% of Jewish adults consider at least one aspect of their health to be “only fair” or “poor.”
- One third of Jewish households (33%) include a member with a chronic health issue, disability, or other need that affects their participation in work, school, or other activities.