Local Bartending School of Jacksonville Florida welcomes you! Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of Florida, the most populous city in the state, and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020.[8] It is the seat of Duval County,[9] with which the city government consolidated in 1968 Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits As of 2020, Jacksonvilles population is 949,611,[10] making it the 12th most populous city in the U.S, the most populous city in the Southeast, and the most populous city in the South outside of the state of Texas.[11] With a population of 1,733,937, the Jacksonville metropolitan area ranks as Floridas fourth-largest metropolitan region.[6] LBS has 971 of graduates working in the state of Florida.