We do not have a warehouse in Jacksonville. Ours is in Sanford, 123 road miles south, and every order we ship leaves from it: receiving, storage, pick and pack, and shipping, from our Sanford fulfillment center.
Jacksonville has cheaper warehouse space than we do, and more of it standing empty. On price your market beats ours and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What a Sanford origin buys instead is distance: from our dock, every major Florida metro south of you is roughly 90 to 115 road miles nearer than it is from Jacksonville. Whether that is worth more to you than the rent gap depends entirely on where your orders go, and this page shows you how to work it out.
Jacksonville sits in the top corner of the state. Almost every other Florida metro is below it, and the gap is not small.
| Destination metro | From our Sanford dock | From Jacksonville | Further |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando | 23 mi | 140 mi | about 115 mi |
| Melbourne | 84 mi | 176 mi | about 90 mi |
| Tampa | 107 mi | 200 mi | about 95 mi |
| St. Petersburg | 129 mi | 222 mi | about 95 mi |
| Sarasota | 154 mi | 252 mi | about 100 mi |
| Fort Myers | 175 mi | 292 mi | about 115 mi |
| West Palm Beach | 187 mi | 280 mi | about 90 mi |
| Fort Lauderdale | 229 mi | 321 mi | about 90 mi |
| Miami | 251 mi | 344 mi | about 90 mi |
The Sanford column is the same table published on our Florida page and used on every city page on this site. The Jacksonville column is calculated the same way, with OSRM, from downtown Jacksonville to the same metro centers. Differences are rounded to the nearest five miles because each column carries about a mile of rounding, and a difference column quoted to the single mile would be false precision. Your own numbers will vary with your exact address.
Miles matter because carrier zones are drawn from the warehouse to your buyer, not from the warehouse to you. A parcel is priced on the band its destination falls into, and a band step is money and often a transit day. Ninety miles does not always cross a boundary. Where it does, it does so on every parcel, every day, for as long as you ship.
That is the honest shape of it. We are not going to tell you how many of your parcels change band, because that depends on your carrier, your service level and your actual destinations, and anybody who quotes you a number without those three things is guessing.
An illustration with made-up numbers, so you can see which way the comparison runs before you send us anything real. Say 1,000 orders a month and 2,000 square feet of storage. The asking-rent gap between the two markets is about $1.50 per square foot per year, so the Jacksonville market's advantage is around $3,000 a year, or $250 a month. Spread across 1,000 monthly orders that is 25 cents an order.
So the question is simply whether moving 90 to 115 miles closer to your customers saves you more than 25 cents a parcel on the share of orders heading south. If it does not, stay in Jacksonville. Those are assumed figures and not a quote, but the structure of the comparison is real, and it is the structure we will fill in with your numbers.
Settle it with your own data rather than our table. Send us a ZIP-code breakdown of last quarter's orders and your current storage footprint, and we will show you what share of your book sits south of Jacksonville and what the two lines look like side by side. If the answer is that you should stay where you are, we will tell you that. Send the ZIP breakdown.
Every other city page on this site can point at a rent gap and argue that storage costs less in Central Florida. In Jacksonville that argument runs backwards, so here are the figures rather than a paragraph avoiding them.
| Market | Q2 2026 asking rent / sq ft | Vacancy | Road miles to our dock |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | $8.02 | 11.6% | 123 mi |
| Orlando | $9.52 | 8.4% | 23 mi |
| Tampa | $10.41 | 7.8% | 107 mi |
Source: Cushman & Wakefield, U.S. Industrial MarketBeat, Q2 2026. One firm, one table, one quarter, so the three rows are directly comparable. Rents are triple net; taxes, insurance and common area maintenance are additional.
Jacksonville asks about 16% less per square foot than Orlando and carries a vacancy rate three points higher. Higher vacancy means more empty buildings, more choice and more room to negotiate. On the two things a growing brand usually worries about, cost and availability, Jacksonville is in better shape than the market we operate in.
Every warehouse option you have in Duval is coastal, because Duval is coastal. That is what the port is for. Ours sits inland in Seminole County, back from the surge zones on both sides of the peninsula. No Florida warehouse is storm-proof and we will not claim otherwise, but the inland-versus-coastal question is worked through properly on the Florida page, and it is a real line item that does not show up in a rent comparison.
Jacksonville moved 10.2 million tons of cargo, 1,388,841 container TEUs and 506,237 vehicles in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025. That volume is one of the reasons the warehouse market around it is as large and as cheap as it is.
Source: JAXPORT FY2024/2025 Annual Report. JAXPORT describes itself as one of the nation's busiest ports for vehicle handling. We have not found a published national ranking, so we are not asserting one.
If your containers land at Blount Island or Dames Point, moving inventory to Sanford adds one drayage leg of roughly 130 miles before anything is put away. That is a real cost and it counts against us. It is worth it only when the outbound saving is larger than the inbound leg, which depends on your container count against your order count. Send us both and we will do that arithmetic the same way we did the one above.
Four cases, and in this market the first one catches more brands than it does anywhere else we serve.
If two or more of those describe you, hire locally. Better you read that here than discover it at your first peak.
A hundred and twenty-three miles is about two hours twenty each way, almost all of it on I-95 and I-4. Contact our team to discuss your fulfillment requirements and request a quote.
Our Florida order fulfillment page covers the full service list, how pricing is structured and what switching involves. The mechanics are the same wherever you ship from: four-part pricing, a switching date you choose, and your current provider still shipping until ours starts. The step-by-step sequence is on the order fulfillment workflow page, the platforms we connect to are under integrations, and the wider service is third-party warehousing and fulfillment.
No. We have one warehouse, in Sanford, 123 road miles south of downtown Jacksonville, and every order ships from it. Jacksonville has a large and competitive fulfillment market of its own, and this page sets out the cases where using it beats using us.
Because of where your customers are. From our dock, every major Florida metro south of Jacksonville is roughly 90 to 115 road miles nearer than it is from a Jacksonville warehouse. Send us a ZIP-code breakdown of last quarter's orders and we will show you what share of your book that affects.
Probably not. Industrial asking rents in Jacksonville were $8.02 per square foot in the second quarter of 2026 against $9.52 in Orlando, with higher vacancy on top, and that flows through to what any provider has to charge for storage. If storage cost is your deciding factor, get a local quote. We would rather lose on price honestly than win on a comparison we fudged.
Then stay in Jacksonville. You are closer to Savannah, Atlanta and the I-95 corridor north than we are, and the argument on this page does not apply to you. This is the clearest case in the state for hiring locally.
Yes, with one drayage leg of about 130 miles from the port down to Sanford. Whether it is worth it depends on how your container count compares with your outbound order count and where those orders go. Send us both and we will show you the arithmetic rather than assert an answer.
About two hours twenty each way from downtown, almost all of it on I-95 and I-4.
Four parts: receiving, storage, pick and pack, and shipping. The structure is explained on the Florida order fulfillment page. For a Jacksonville brand the line that decides it is usually shipping rather than storage, because storage is where your own market has the advantage and shipping is where ours does. Send us your numbers and we will come back with a rate card.
Two things get you a real answer: your monthly order count and a ZIP-code breakdown of where last quarter's orders went. The second matters more here than anywhere else we serve, because it is the only thing that decides whether moving your inventory 123 miles south is worth doing at all. If it is not, we will say so.
