The Host City
Why Jacksonville?
Jacksonville is an innovative region where companies and individuals thrive.
- Twenty major banks, insurance & investments services firms on the Forbes’ Global 500 List have operations in Jacksonville.
- Jacksonville is home to three Fortune 500 companies.
- There are more than twenty higher learning colleges and universities in the region.
- More than twenty top advanced medical institutions are located in Jacksonville.
- Jacksonville is home to the largest industrial park in the Southeast.
- Jacksonville is home to the 4th fastest growing port in the U.S.
- Median age is 38.
- 1.6 million residents live in Northeast Florida.
- Jacksonville is home to the #1 school district in Florida for more than nine years.
