{"id":189322,"date":"2026-03-12T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:31:09","slug":"number-of-the-week-happy-birthday-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189322\/","title":{"rendered":"NUMBER OF THE WEEK | Happy birthday, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the country celebrates its semiquincentennial, the nation\u2019s 27th state reached <a href=\"https:\/\/dos.fl.gov\/florida-facts\/florida-history\/a-brief-history\/statehood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a milestone birthday last week<\/a>, too. (What\u2019s the right gift for a 181-year-old?). In honor of the big 1-8-1, we\u2019re sharing a few facts about the average Florida Man (and Woman). <\/p>\n<p>Our Number of the Week is the median age of the people who live in the Jacksonville metro area: 39.3 years old.<\/p>\n<p>39.3 years old<\/p>\n<p>The median age among all Americans is 39.2, and though Florida as a whole leans a little older \u2014\u00a042.6 years \u2014 the Jacksonville metro area\u2019s age is pretty similar to the nation\u2019s as a whole. Broken down by local county, Nassau is our area\u2019s oldest (Median: 46.5 years), and Duval is the youngest (Median: 36.9 years). And, those numbers are trending upward. The residents of Florida\u2019s First Coast are getting older, according to the last five years of Census data. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773354668_942_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Within the metro area, residents are somewhat evenly spread across various age groups. By a small margin, though, the age group with the most residents is the 30-34 years category.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/28004654\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"visualization\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the country celebrates its semiquincentennial, the nation\u2019s 27th state reached a milestone birthday last week, too. (What\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-189322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}