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The city of Jacksonville is home to the Duval County Courthouse. The previous courthouse was constructed in 1958, and the county's population has grown by more than 50% in the past forty years. A new $190 million Duval County Courthouse was a key component of the Better Jacksonville Plan, approved by voters in 2000.
Duval County (/ d j uː ˈ v ɔː l / dew-VAWL), officially the City of Jacksonville and Duval County, is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census , its population was 995,567, [ 3 ] making it the sixth-most populous county in Florida .
In 2010, Duval County's violent crime rate decreased by 9.3% from the previous year, with total crime decreasing 7.3%, putting the murder rate behind that of Miami-Dade County. [211] Jacksonville and Duval County historically maintained separate police agencies: the Jacksonville Police Department and Duval County Sheriff's Office.
Jacksonville Aviation Authority; Jacksonville City Council; Jacksonville Consolidation; Jacksonville Expressway Authority; Jacksonville Housing Authority; 2003 Jacksonville mayoral election; 2007 Jacksonville mayoral election; 2011 Jacksonville mayoral election; Jacksonville Port Authority; Jacksonville Public Library; Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
The Jacksonville City Council is the legislative governing body of the city of Jacksonville, Florida and of Duval County, [1] with which the City of Jacksonville consolidated in 1968. The council meets in its chambers at Jacksonville City Hall, 117 W. Duval St.
In 1934, the Florida Constitution was amended to give the Florida Legislature the “power to establish, alter or abolish, a Municipal corporation to be known as the City of Jacksonville, extending territorially throughout the present limits of Duval County," [1] but for many years thereafter, the Legislature did not exercise the power.
Oakleaf Plantation is a 6,400-acre planned community in the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area located in unincorporated Clay County and partially within the Jacksonville city limits (Duval County).