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.
The cited report shows lower industrial asking rents and higher vacancy in Jacksonville than Orlando. Those are property-market figures, not fulfillment quotes. Compare receiving, storage, picking, packing and shipping for your actual account. The distance table below is geographic context; carrier rates and service estimates determine whether Sanford offers a shipping benefit.
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.
Carrier zones and rates depend on the actual origin and destination ZIPs, carrier and service. Road mileage is useful geographic context, but it does not show whether a parcel crosses a zone boundary or changes its transit estimate. Compare the carrier data for your parcel weights, dimensions and destinations before estimating savings.
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.
For an illustration, suppose two comparable fulfillment quotes differ by $250 a month in storage charges. At 1,000 orders per month, that is 25 cents per order. These are hypothetical quoted charges, not a storage-price estimate derived from industrial asking rents.
Compare that hypothetical 25-cent difference with the weighted shipping cost across all your orders, plus any differences in receiving, handling and other agreed services. Use actual quotes and carrier rates for the decision; road mileage alone does not establish a saving.
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 orders 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.
The following table compares industrial asking rents and vacancy in the cited markets. It describes property conditions, not what a particular fulfillment provider will charge for storage.
| 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.
In this report, Jacksonville asks about 16% less per square foot than Orlando and has a vacancy rate three points higher. That can be useful context when leasing a building. For outsourced fulfillment, obtain quotes based on the same inventory footprint, billing units and service scope.
Duval County includes properties with different storm exposures. Our warehouse is inland in Seminole County, but neither county name establishes a site's flood or storm-surge risk. No Florida warehouse is storm-proof. Review site-specific hazard information and continuity arrangements; the inland-versus-coastal question is worked through properly on the Florida page, alongside the cost 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 orders that affects.
We would need comparable quotes to answer that. The cited industrial asking rents do not establish either provider's storage charge. Send your inventory footprint and requirements, then compare the same billing units, minimums and included services.
Include Jacksonville providers in your comparison for those destinations. Compare their rates, transit estimates and fulfillment services with ours using the same order data; proximity alone does not settle the choice.
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, both storage and shipping need a comparison using actual quotes, order destinations and parcel details. 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.
