Funeral services · Metro area · Florida
Funeral homes in the Jacksonville, FL metro area
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for funeral homes in the Jacksonville, FL metro area, set against other metro areas and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 70 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #75 of 377 scored metro areas
#18 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida
- Listings
- 109
- 7 chain locations (6%)
- Official establishments
- 50
- −9.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $90.5M
- On funerals · $136 a household
- Spending per listing
- $830K
- 22% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.6
- 24% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 1,785,500
- +10.7% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 109 funeral homes in the Jacksonville metro area. Of those, 7 are chain locations, or 6%, against 10% across the U.S. That is 1.6 per 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
At $136 per household (4% below the U.S. average), households in the Jacksonville metro area spend about $90.5M a year on funerals. Spread across 109 funeral homes, that is $830K per home, 22% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Jacksonville metro area was 50 in 2023, down 9.3% from 2019. That is one for every 13,262 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $2.9M have gone to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Jacksonville metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Jacksonville metro area grew 10.7%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Jacksonville metro area scores 70 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for funeral homes, ranking #75 of 377 scored metro areas and #18 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida. That puts it in the top quarter of metro areas.
How the Jacksonville metro area compares
The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Jacksonville metro area | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.6 | 1.5 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $830K | $1.1M | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 13,262 | 13,570 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −9.3% | −2.4% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +10.7% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $136 | $173 | $143 |
| Median household income | $79,643 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 70 | 92 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 50−9.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 450
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $19.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 1097 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 133The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $2.9M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Jacksonville metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Jacksonville metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 1,785,500+10.7% since 2020
- Households
- 663,101
- Median age
- 40.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 66%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 3,202 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 526
- Median household income
- $79,643+29.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $108,638
- Median home value
- $343,400
- Jobs located here
- 779,445
- Daytime population
- 1,697,743Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wildwood-The Villages, FL | 99 | 9 | 1.3 | $2.4M | +21.1% | #1 of 377 |
| 2Punta Gorda, FL | 98 | 11 | 1.2 | $2.1M | +15.5% | #2 of 377 |
| 3Naples-Marco Island, FL | 97 | 14 | 0.8 | $3M | +10.6% | #3 of 377 |
| 4Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL | 97 | 38 | 1.2 | $1.9M | +14.4% | #4 of 377 |
| 5North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL | 95 | 55 | 1.4 | $1.6M | +13.2% | #5 of 377 |
| 6Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL | 92 | 34 | 1.3 | $1.4M | +9.1% | #6 of 377 |
| 7Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL | 92 | 13 | 1.8 | $1.4M | +7.7% | #7 of 377 |
| 8Port St. Lucie, FL | 91 | 34 | 1.7 | $1.3M | +16.0% | #8 of 377 |
| 9Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 87 | 185 | 1.4 | $1.2M | +7.3% | #14 of 377 |
| 10Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 86 | 321 | 1.4 | $1.3M | +4.2% | #16 of 377 |
| 18Jacksonville, FL | 70 | 109 | 1.6 | $830K | +10.7% | #75 of 377 |
Other business types in the Jacksonville metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Jacksonville, FL metro area?
The Jacksonville metro area has 109 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. 7 of them (6%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 50 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023, down 9.3% from 2019.
How much do households in the Jacksonville, FL metro area spend on funerals?
About $90.5M a year, or $136 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 109 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $830K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 663,101 households in the Jacksonville metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Jacksonville, FL metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Jacksonville metro area has 1.6 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $830K, 22% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Jacksonville metro area would have about 133, against 109 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 13,262 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. The official count fell 9.3% from 2019 to 2023, against −1.7% for the U.S.
How fast is the Jacksonville, FL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Jacksonville metro area at 1,785,500 people in 2025, up 10.7% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 663,101 households. Median household income in the Jacksonville metro area is $79,643, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 29.0%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Jacksonville metro area scores 70 for funeral homes (upper middle), #75 of 377 scored metro areas.
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