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Santa Rosa Beach Neighborhoods & Communities
Where to live in Santa Rosa Beach: gated golf communities, beach neighborhoods, and resort enclaves - each with covenant, rental, and lifestyle notes.
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Santa Rosa Beach · Local Guidance
Santa Rosa Beach is an address, not one town
Santa Rosa Beach is a mailing address that stretches across much of south Walton County, from Choctawhatchee Bay down to the Gulf, and that is the first thing to understand before comparing its neighborhoods. The useful way to organize it is in three bands. Along the bay and the Intracoastal, Point Washington and the bayfront streets favor boats, big trees, and larger parcels, with state forest land framing many of them.
The middle band along the US 98 corridor holds most of the newer subdivisions, where lot sizes, covenants, and build eras change block by block. South of 98, the address blends into the western end of the 30A corridor near Gulf Place and Dune Allen, where beach proximity sets the tone and the pace.
Two homes with the same Santa Rosa Beach address can sit miles apart with completely different routines. Compare drive time to the specific beach access you would actually use, covenant rules on short-term rentals, and flood zone, which changes street by street as you approach the bay.
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15 places- Bay MagnoliaNeighborhoodThe Bay Magnolia filing, recorded in Plat Book 13, page 33, names 44 lots across Blocks A and B. County records distinguish the numbered lots from a common-area row and retain several parcel-use classifications.
- Bay Pine ShoresNeighborhoodBay Pine Shores is identified by Walton County subdivision number 19-2S-19-24140 and the Plat Book 8, page 29 header for Phases 1 and 2. That assessor list divides its 31 parcels into 21 SINGLE FAMILY and 10 VACANT records.
- Bayou FarmsNeighborhoodBayou Farms enters the county record as subdivision 29-2S-20-33050, filed March 3, 2004, in Plat Book 15, page 92. Seventeen single-family lot rows sit beside one common-area ID repeated across five features.
- Bayou LandingNeighborhoodBayou Landing S/D is the 46-lot Walton County filing in series 24-2S-21-42380, recorded in Plat Book 15, page 29. Its flood fields remain parcel-level and separate from Mack Bayou Landing's record series.
- Beach Haven CottagesNeighborhoodBeach Haven Cottages is a 17-lot cottage plat on Rue du Soleil in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded April 3, 2002 in Walton County, with 16 houses on the state roll and a 1.6-acre common-area parcel.
- Beach HighlandNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleA 1960 beach plat with the Gulf along its south side and Topsail Hill Preserve against its western line, governed since 2008 by a county overlay allowing only detached houses, stopping height at four stories and setting a floor of 1,700 square feet.
- Beach View HeightsNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleBeach View Heights is an unrecorded subdivision of houses and lots in Santa Rosa Beach, outside any city limits. The county codes 38 of its 70 parcels single family and 22 vacant, most lots are drawn at about a third of an acre, and both the county and FEMA flood layers put every parcel in Zone X. With no recorded plat behind it, a lot's deed description and survey set its boundaries, so check those first.
- Beachwood EstatesNeighborhoodBeachwood Estates is a 22-lot plat recorded May 15, 2019 in Plat Book 21, pages 77 and 78. Walton County files it under 33-2S-20-33261 as 22 single-family lot parcels plus one common-area parcel held by the Beachwood Estates owners association, with all 22 addresses on Rachel Road in Santa Rosa Beach. The 2026 state roll shows a 2020 year built on every house it lists.
- Bella VitaNeighborhoodBella Vita is a 48-unit condominium recorded in 2003 on Blue Mountain Road, with one common-area parcel held by the Bella Vita Condominium Owners Association. Seven units sit partly in Zone VE and the other 41 in Zone X, so flood position varies from unit to unit.
- BellamarNeighborhoodLive MLS listings and recorded sales history for Bellamar, a subdivision in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Blue Gulf ResortNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleWalton County records file Blue Gulf Resort's Santa Rosa Beach lots in lettered blocks, addressed on County Highway 30A and sea-life streets.
- Blue Mountain BeachNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleThe high ground of western 30A: laid-back beach streets set between three coastal dune lakes, with the ridge the neighborhood is named for rising north of Scenic 30A.
- Bluewater LandingNeighborhoodBluewater Landing is a 31-lot plat recorded in March 2022 as Plat Book 24, pages 37 to 39, on the north side of Retreat Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, with about 23 acres of conservation easement between the lots and Draper Lake.
- Botany BayouNeighborhoodBotany Bayou is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in Walton County, platted in 2001 as 71 lots on land lying west of Hewett Bayou.
- BrizoNeighborhoodBrizo is an 18-lot plat on Brizo Lane in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded in April 2024 as Plat Book 26, pages 89 and 90 under the earlier name Alderberry Road Subdivision, with every house on the 2026 roll dated 2025.
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19 places- Calypso PointeNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleCalypso Pointe is a 1990 planned unit development in Santa Rosa Beach on streets its plat calls private: Walton County lists 35 parcel IDs, made up of 33 single-family lots, one vacant lot and one common-area parcel.
- Cano EstatesNeighborhoodCano Estates is a 36-lot subdivision platted in 1979 along U.S. Highway 98 in Santa Rosa Beach; Walton County lists 40 parcel IDs for it, from 27 single-family lots to state-owned lots, church and commercial parcels, and a lake parcel.
- Carson OaksNeighborhoodCarson Oaks in Santa Rosa Beach is three recorded plats, an original subdivision and two replatted additions, holding 80 single-family parcels in Walton County records, with homes dated 2005 through 2017 on the state roll.
- Caspian EstatesNeighborhoodCaspian Estates is a nine-lot subdivision platted on March 21, 2006 in Santa Rosa Beach; Walton County lists 10 parcel IDs, nine single-family lots and one common-area parcel, and FEMA maps every piece of it in Zone X.
- Cassine GardensNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleCassine Gardens holds 84 townhouses in four platted phases, built 1981 to 1996, with Santa Rosa Beach addresses in Walton County.
- Cassine VillageNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleCassine Village is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision of 72 lot parcels in Blocks A through E, platted in phases between Plat Book 9 and Plat Book 14, with homes the state roll dates from 1993 to 2022.
- Cessna LandingNeighborhoodCessna Landing's recorded plat splits its lots into an interior series and a waterfront series facing Hogtown Bayou, in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Cessna VillageNeighborhoodCessna Village is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision of 19 homes and one common-area parcel on Plat Book 16, page 32, built in 2022 and 2023 and mapped by FEMA wholly inside Zone AE.
- Church Street LandingNeighborhoodChurch Street Landing is a Santa Rosa Beach plat recorded February 27, 2018 at Plat Book 20, page 79, with 17 lots along Euvino Way and Frances Lane whose 16 listed homes the state roll dates from 2019 to 2023.
- Churchill OaksCommunityA bayou-side subdivision on Santa Rosa Beach's north side, still selling out of its first recorded phase, where the county's adopted zoning splits the plat between two districts and Hogtown Bayou closes the northern edge.
- Coastal DunesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleCoastal Dunes is a 13-townhouse plat in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded January 17, 2006 at Plat Book 17, page 39 and replatted at Plat Book 18, page 38, with every unit dated 2008 on the state roll.
- Coastal GroveNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleCoastal Grove is a Santa Rosa Beach plat of 13 homes and one common-area parcel on Abbey Road, recorded August 23, 2005 as Phase I at Plat Book 17, page 8, with lots 10 through 13 carrying Phase II wording.
- Cottage GroveNeighborhoodCottage Grove is a 38-lot plat of single-family houses built 2020 to 2022 on White Cottage Road and Cove in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Cottages at Eastern LakeCommunity · Built 2015A 35 lot plat of about 3.76 acres between Eastern Lake and Deer Lake State Park, zoned Village Mixed Use, with six of its addresses standing inside the protection buffer the county maps around that dune lake.
- Cottages At Santa Rosa BeachNeighborhoodCottages At Santa Rosa Beach is a 16-lot plat of single-family lots on Classic Court Lane, recorded May 8, 2007 in Plat Book 18, page 3 under Walton County subdivision 02-3S-20-34164, with homes built between 2008 and 2015.
- Courtyards Of Santa Rosa BeachNeighborhoodCourtyards Of Santa Rosa Beach is a 44-lot townhome plat recorded May 29, 2003 in Plat Book 15, page 46 under Walton County subdivision 03-3S-20-34350, with homes built in 2003 and 2004.
- Crest DevelopmentNeighborhoodCrest Development is a nine-lot townhome plat recorded September 11, 2019 in Plat Book 22, page 10, with Santa Rosa Beach addresses on West County Highway 30A and one common-area parcel beside the nine lots.
- Cypress Breeze PlantationCommunity · Built 2015An inland Santa Rosa Beach subdivision whose five recorded phases carry 190 parcels across about 52.8 acres, where county flood mapping holds ground on 66 parcels and mapped freshwater wetland on 69, so both answers have to be pulled for the individual address rather than read off the community.
- Cypress DunesCommunity · Gated · Short-Term Rental EligibleA gated plat of detached homes set into the eastern side of Topsail Hill Preserve State Park, with state land along its southern and western boundaries and no shoreline of its own.
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6 places- DaughettesNeighborhoodDaughettes is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in Walton County whose north end reaches Choctawhatchee Bay and whose lots are threaded by canal channels that a county benefit unit pays to dredge.
- Daxton On The BayNeighborhoodDaxton on the Bay is 31 single-family houses on Bayou Edge Landing, off Mussett Bayou Road in Santa Rosa Beach. All of them were finished between 2020 and 2022 with about 2,020 to 3,316 square feet of living area, and the plat's outlines come within roughly 30 feet of Mussett Bayou at the closest point. FEMA draws three different flood positions across these Walton County lots, and the zone and base flood elevation change with the exact lot.
- Draper Lake Coastal VillageCommunity · GatedA gated village of 96 lots laid out with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company across two wooded peninsulas on Draper Lake, with boathouses, two pools and a 48 foot observation tower in place of a beachfront address.
- Dune AllenNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleThe neighborhood at the western start of 30A, where the road splits from US Highway 98 at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park and the Timpoochee Trail begins its run east. Five of Walton County's fifteen named coastal dune lakes lie within it, and two regional beach accesses open onto the Gulf.
- Dune Breeze VillasNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleDune Breeze Villas is an 18-unit townhome plat in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded in April 2000 at Plat Book 14, page 37. County records show nine two-unit buildings lettered A through I and one common-area parcel, and the state roll dates the buildings to 2000 and 2002.
- Dune Side On 30ANeighborhoodDune Side On 30A is a listing name; the county parcels on Dune Side Lane in Blue Mountain Beach form a 22-lot plat recorded May 27, 2015 as Thirty-A Resort Subdivision, Plat Book 19, page 27. The state roll shows a single-family house on every lot, built between 2016 and 2025.
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9 places- Eagle BayCommunity · Built 2013Two platted sections under one name on Santa Rosa Beach's bayou side, where the county roll records 238 parcels, two separately named associations, opposite zoning classes, and heavier flood mapping on the newer of the two.
- Eastern LakeNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleA neighborhood wrapped around a coastal dune lake that Scenic 30A crosses instead of skirting: about a third of the water lies north of the road, the rest runs south toward the beach, and a county park on the lake carries a boat ramp, which the county reports for only three of its fifteen dune lakes.
- Eastern Lake EstatesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleWalton County property records list Eastern Lake Estates, a Santa Rosa Beach plat divided into five numbered blocks under Plat Book 3, Page 34.
- Eden EstatesNeighborhoodEden Estates, a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in Walton County, pairs a recorded plat in blocks A through I with an unrecorded metes-and-bounds part.
- Eden's LandingNeighborhoodEden's Landing is a compact Santa Rosa Beach series of 46 county parcels (31 single-family, 14 vacant and one common-area parcel) platted as Replat 2, Plat Book 20, page 84, and covered on the county planning map by an overlay named Eden's Landing PUD.
- Emerald WalkNeighborhoodEmerald Walk is a listing-search name for Santa Rosa Beach homes that Walton County files as Flamingo Village, a 100-lot plat in unincorporated Walton County.
- Enchanted EstatesNeighborhoodEnchanted Estates is Walton County subdivision 24-2S-21-42274, recorded in Plat Book 14, page 56 with 69 numbered lots and one common-area parcel; 65 of the lots carry houses built from 2001 through 2025.
- EscadaNeighborhoodEscada's county records split the subdivision into two blocks. Block A contains both houses and townhouses, while every Block B parcel is classified as a townhouse.
- EstuaryNeighborhoodEstuary is Walton County subdivision 29-2S-19-24080, recorded in Plat Book 16, page 9: 38 parcel IDs, nearly half of the lot parcels vacant, combined and split lots, and a flood map that touches many parcel outlines but few parcel centers.
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4 places- Fairway VillasNeighborhoodFairway Villas is a 32-lot Santa Rosa Beach plat, Fairway Villas II at Plat Book 14, page 20, on a single street, Masters Court, with 33 county parcel IDs once the common-area parcel is counted.
- Forest LakesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleForest Lakes is a four-phase plat north of County Road 30A with Santa Rosa Beach 32459 addresses, recorded between July 2004 and June 2007 on a 37.36 acre tract where, in June 2003, about 12.6 acres were in use as a campground.
- Forest ParkNeighborhoodForest Park is a 33-lot plat on Forest Park Drive in unincorporated Walton County, recorded June 27, 2007 at Plat Book 18, page 10, with Santa Rosa Beach 32459 addresses and county subdivision number 19-2S-20-33200.
- Four Mile VillageNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleFour Mile Village is named in one Walton County legal description, Lot 9 at 159 Twisted Pine Trail, Santa Rosa Beach 32459, a 0.81 acre single-family parcel that county maps place within the Fuller Lake dune lake protection zone.
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10 places- Grayton BayouNeighborhoodGrayton Bayou, a Walton County subdivision with Santa Rosa Beach addresses, shares Riker Avenue and Greenbriar Lane with Magnolia Beach lots.
- Greenway ParkNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleWalton County files Greenway Park as subdivision 24-3S-19-25810, recorded September 29, 2004 in Plat Book 16, page 23: 54 numbered lots and one common parcel that the county maps in seven pieces.
- Grove By The SeaNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleGrove By The Sea: 103 lots platted from 1995 to 1998 along North Andalusia Avenue and Cullman Avenue in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Gulf LandingNeighborhoodGulf Landing is eight single-family lots on Satinwood Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded May 14, 2014 in Plat Book 19, page 2 as Walton County subdivision 02-3S-20-34720, with houses built between 2014 and 2017 on the 2026 state roll.
- Gulf PlaceCommunity · Short-Term Rental EligibleThe mixed-use blocks where Scenic 30A meets County Road 393, marked on Walton County's own trail guide as the three-mile stop, with the Ed Walline Regional Beach Access and its 39 space county lot facing them from the Gulf side of the road.
- Gulf ReflectionsNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleGulf Reflections is a 15-lot plat on Emma Huggins Lane in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded October 31, 2005 in Plat Book 17, page 20. The 2026 state tax roll dates all 15 houses to 2014 through 2017, on lots of about 3,100 to 4,200 square feet.
- Gulf Shore ManorNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleA 1925 beach plat lying entirely north of County Highway 30A, set almost exactly a mile from Western Lake on one side and Eastern Lake on the other, where the body that speaks for owners told the county it is not a homeowners association.
- Gulf TraceNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleGulf Trace is an 86-parcel Gulf-side neighborhood in Santa Rosa Beach, platted in two steps: Gulf Trace in June 1980 (Plat Book 5, Page 44) and Gulf Trace 1st Addition in May 1981 (Plat Book 5, Page 73). A Walton County neighborhood plan sets its own building rules.
- Gulf ViewNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleGulf View is a listing-search name nearest the ten-lot Gulf Views plat, a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in unincorporated Walton County with nine houses.
- Gulfview HeightsNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleAn elevated plat whose southern boundary meets County Highway 30A, carrying its own regional beach access with 22 parking spaces at the end of the street that shares its name, and a recorded business section inside the subdivision.
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8 places- Harstvedt PlantationNeighborhoodHarstvedt Plantation, Santa Rosa Beach: 61 single-family lots, Walton County, with wetland buffers and Zone A flood ground inside several lot lines.
- Hawk's LandingNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleHawk's Landing holds 150 townhouse lots and four lots for detached single-family homes east of Indian Woman Road in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Heritage DunesNeighborhoodHeritage Dunes is recorded in Walton County as series 24-3S-19-25480: 30 numbered lots and one common-area parcel, 31 parcel IDs in all, from a plat recorded September 25, 2003.
- Heron CrossingNeighborhoodHeron Crossing is a ten-lot subdivision on Heron's Xing in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded July 6, 2005 at Plat Book 16, page 79, with ten houses on the state roll built between 2018 and 2024.
- Hewett BayouNeighborhoodHewett Bayou is the unrecorded First Addition to Hewitt Bayou, with 24 parcels on the county roll off Hewett Point Road and West Hewett Road in Santa Rosa Beach, nearly all holding some ground in a mapped flood hazard area.
- Hidden GroveNeighborhoodHidden Grove, off West Hewett Road in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, was approved in 2004 with a drainage condition about stormwater structures under the houses, amended that September.
- Hidden HighlandsNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleHidden Highlands is a 34-lot Santa Rosa Beach plat recorded January 22, 2003 at Plat Book 15, page 32, with 26 addresses on Spotted Dolphin Road and every parcel outline in FEMA Zone X.
- Holley Grove at Peach CreekNeighborhoodHolley Grove is two recorded Walton County plats in Santa Rosa Beach, five lots on Old Ferry Road and 38 lots on Holley Grove Lane, and the records seen here do not tie it to the Peach Creek plats the listing label points to.
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2 places- Indian CoveNeighborhoodIndian Cove in Santa Rosa Beach is a Plat Book 21, page 74 plat of 30 named single-family lots and an association-owned common area, with houses built in 2020 and 2021 and every parcel mapped in Zone AE at 7 feet.
- Indian WomanNeighborhoodIndian Woman is a road in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, with 105 parcels in eight parcel-number series and no county subdivision of that name.
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5 places- Lake Place at Grayton BeachNeighborhoodLake Place at Grayton Beach remains distinct from the Grayton Beach plan area: Walton County's adopted plan expressly excludes it. This page retains two listing spellings and treats the September 23, 2026 Santa Rosa Beach figures as a dated market snapshot.
- LakeviewNeighborhoodLakeview is the Walton County plat recorded January 24, 2019 at Plat Book 21, pages 57 and 58, parcel series 34-2S-20-33271: 60 parcels, drawn as 65 map pieces, with lots 14 through 17 and one common-area piece partly in Zone A.
- Lakewood Pointe EstatesNeighborhoodLakewood Pointe Estates is Walton County parcel series 19-3S-18-16180, recorded at Plat Book 9, page 36: 23 parcels, 21 coded single-family, one vacant and one common-area, with lots 9 and 10 combined in one parcel and 15 parcels reaching Zone AE at a 10-foot base flood elevation.
- Legends Of Santa Rosa BeachNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleThe Legends of Santa Rosa Beach is 22 townhouses at 19 Brentwood Lane, Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, with a county record citing a declaration, not a plat.
- Lighthouse PointeNeighborhoodLighthouse Pointe is 18 platted lots on Lighthouse Pointe Boulevard and Claycin Cove in Santa Rosa Beach, every house built from 2017 through 2021.
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12 places- Mack Bayou EstatesNeighborhoodMack Bayou Estates is 49 platted lots on Rivercrest Circle and Waterwood Court in Santa Rosa Beach, plus a 12.5 acre common parcel, recorded in Plat Book 14, page 25.
- Mack Bayou ParkNeighborhoodMack Bayou Park is a 25-parcel plat on Raymond Circle, Rosin Cup Circle, East Mack Bayou Drive and West Lamb Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded in Plat Book 6, page 35, where flood position changes lot to lot.
- Mack Bayou PinesNeighborhoodMack Bayou Pines is a 19-lot subdivision on East Lamb Drive and Goldsby Road in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded October 22, 2002 in Plat Book 15, page 27, with 17 houses built between 2003 and 2024.
- Mack Bayou PointeNeighborhoodMack Bayou Pointe is a 59-lot subdivision recorded July 3, 2002 in Plat Book 15, page 13, where all 59 houses were built in 2002 or 2003 on lots of 7,298 to 9,308 square feet.
- Magnolia BeachNeighborhoodA bay-front plat where the beach in the name is Choctawhatchee Bay, Eden Gardens State Park begins about a quarter mile east, and the flood map returns three different zones between the southern blocks and the water.
- Magnolia CreekNeighborhoodMagnolia Creek is a 39-lot community on Magnolia Creek Road and Creek Court in Santa Rosa Beach, platted in two phases (Plat Book 7, page 24 and Plat Book 8, page 11), where 36 of the 38 houses on the state roll were built between 1987 and 2005.
- Magnolia DuneNeighborhoodMagnolia Dune is a 24-lot plat, Plat Book 11, page 6, in Santa Rosa Beach, where 17 houses built from 2005 to 2020 on Sandalwood Drive and Sugar Sand Lane share the plat with an office building, a multi-story office and a financial building.
- Mar-A-LagoNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleMar-A-Lago is a 15-unit plat in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, recorded at Plat Book 10, page 38, where each unit outline covers about 960 square feet and a single 4.7-acre common-area parcel surrounds all fifteen.
- Miller's CrossingNeighborhoodMiller's Crossing is a 72-lot townhouse plat in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded at Plat Book 20, page 90. Flood maps split it: 64 lots are in Zone X, six are in Zone A, and two straddle both.
- Moores LandingNeighborhoodMoores Landing is an 18-parcel plat on South Blue Heron Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded at Plat Book 11, page 48, where fifteen of its seventeen lots are crossed by Zone AE at a base flood elevation of 7 feet.
- Mosaic OaksNeighborhoodMosaic Oaks was approved in 2007 as 32 single-family lots on 5.24 acres in Santa Rosa Beach and recorded at Plat Book 18, page 15. County records for Lot 8 leave the owner and legal fields blank even though the lot has a county address and building value.
- Mussett Bayou ManorNeighborhoodMussett Bayou Manor is a 17-lot plat off Bayou Manor Road with a Santa Rosa Beach mailing address, recorded March 12, 2015 in Plat Book 19, page 17 and filed with Walton County as subdivision 28-2S-20-33610.
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5 places- Oaks At EdenNeighborhoodOaks At Eden is a 19-lot plat off Big Oak Lane with a Santa Rosa Beach mailing address, recorded December 18, 2012 in Plat Book 18, page 73 and filed with Walton County as subdivision 35-2S-19-24450, inside the county's Point Washington planning overlay.
- Old Florida BeachNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleA single 1991 plat of alley-served lots between Scenic 30A and the Gulf, with pedestrian beach easements reserved to owners and a recorded design code that reaches everything from tree removal to porch depth.
- Old Florida CottagesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleOld Florida Cottages, platted as Emerald Ridge Townhomes, is 36 houses on Emerald Dune Circle in Santa Rosa Beach. Florida's 2026 roll dates all but one of them to 1999 or 2000, each standing on a lot of only about 1,600 to 2,150 square feet, while common ground and road take up more than half of the Walton County plat. Every lot reads Zone X on the flood map. The association is the open question: renamed in 2000, it sits on the state registry without a list of the lots it serves, and its recorded declaration is where that list would be.
- Old Florida VillageNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleOld Florida Village is a plat of 75 single-family homes on Hidden Lake Way in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County. Every house went up in 2004 or 2005, on compact lots the county draws at between about 0.07 and 0.17 acre, and the homeowners association is listed on a common parcel of roughly 3.7 acres. Flood exposure changes from one lot to the next here, which puts the flood determination and an elevation certificate for the exact address at the top of the list.
- Old TownNeighborhoodOld Town is a listing name tied to the 1912 Town of Santa Rosa plat in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County: about 1,350 parcels, nearly half of them vacant.
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9 places- Palmeira VillasNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleRecorded September 13, 2002 in Plat Book 15, page 22, Palmeira Villas is a ten-lot Walton County series: Lot 1 is classified VACANT and Lots 2 through 10 are classified SINGLE FAMILY.
- Palmetto PlantationNeighborhoodPalmetto Plantation is a 40-lot Walton County subdivision recorded June 23, 1998 in Plat Book 13, page 40, and FEMA's flood map puts Zone A or Zone AE ground on 15 of its 38 single-family lots.
- Paradise CoveNeighborhoodTwo recorded plats share the Paradise Cove name off Blakely Drew Boulevard in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, their houses built 2015 to 2022.
- Peach CreekNeighborhoodPeach Creek's five recorded phases in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, hold single-family houses dated 2011 to 2020.
- Pelican BayNeighborhoodPelican Bay is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in Walton County, approved in 1993 as 79 lots on 42 acres and recorded on two phased plats.
- Pine TraceNeighborhoodPine Trace, recorded April 6, 2006 in Plat Book 17, page 51, holds 22 Walton County parcels: 17 single-family, four vacant and one common parcel of streets and shared ground that the county draws in six pieces.
- Pines Of Blue MountainNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligiblePines of Blue Mountain is a Walton County plat of 62 numbered lots and three lettered tracts recorded in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
- Pinewood 30ANeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligiblePinewood 30 A is a condominium recorded in 2022 on County Highway 393 in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, Florida.
- Plantation At Santa RosaNeighborhoodPlantation at Santa Rosa, a plat Walton County approved in 2005, sets single-family lots on five streets east of Don Bishop Road, Santa Rosa Beach.
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3 places- Redfish VillageCommunity · Short-Term Rental EligibleTwo four-story mixed-use buildings at the junction of Scenic 30A and County Highway 83, with 80 residences over street-level commerce and a narrow association-held parcel running down to the shoreline a fifth of a mile south.
- RidgewalkNeighborhoodRidgewalk, east of County Road 393 in Santa Rosa Beach, is a 64-lot plat of detached houses built since 2017. On the state tax roll the smallest house has 1,723 square feet against 3,511 for the largest, and lots vary from roughly 2,300 to 14,800 square feet. Flood position splits the plat: 22 of the 64 lots touch flood Zone A, and the other 42 lie wholly in Zone X.
- Rolling Dunes Estates Unit 2Neighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleRolling Dunes Estates Unit II is a Santa Rosa Beach plat of 19 numbered lots, split by the county into 26 parcels along County Highway 83, Rolling Dunes Drive, Dunetop Terrace and Mountain Top Dune Drive, with houses dated 1984 through 2023.
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32 places- Sacred OaksNeighborhoodSacred Oaks is an 87-lot, two-phase single-family subdivision on Mack Bayou Road in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Sandal BeachNeighborhoodSandal Beach is a nine-unit townhome plat in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded November 9, 2004 in Plat Book 16, page 36, with Units 101 through 109 on parcels of about 0.02 acre each and a separate 1.33-acre common-area parcel.
- Sandcastles By The SeaNeighborhoodSandcastles By The Sea is two Walton County plats under one name: Phase I, a 14-unit townhome plat in Plat Book 5, page 61, and Phase III, nine single family lots in Plat Book 12, page 12 recorded in 1996.
- Sandhill PinesNeighborhoodSandhill Pines is a 77-lot townhouse plat recorded in 2020 on the west side of Mack Bayou Road, with Santa Rosa Beach addresses in Walton County.
- Santa Rosa DunesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSanta Rosa Dunes is a small subdivision of Government Lot 38 in Plat Book 3, page 79, with seven platted lots on Fort Panic Road, Lots 3 through 9, and a separate recreation and park parcel covering a portion of Lot 2 that the county roll lists under Walton County.
- Santa Rosa Golf & Beach ClubCommunity · Golf · Short-Term Rental EligibleThirty-nine single-family lots on Golf Villa Drive beside the Santa Rosa Golf & Beach Club course, the one bounded real-estate product this name reaches, with two separate club properties nine tenths of a mile apart across Scenic 30A and open county streets between them that carry no shared association.
- Santa Rosa RetreatNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSanta Rosa Retreat is a ten-lot subdivision on Carefree Lane in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded July 31, 2018 in Plat Book 21, page 21, with every lot drawn at the same size, about 0.115 acre, and an owners association is the roll's listed owner of a separate common-area parcel.
- Santa Rosa RidgeNeighborhoodSanta Rosa Ridge spans Units I through IV plus the Fox Lake and Fairway additions in Walton County, with Santa Rosa Beach addresses.
- Sea Croft CottagesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSea Croft Cottages is a 14-lot plat in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, with eight single-family parcels, six vacant lots and about 0.67 acre of street and common area listed under its homeowners association.
- Sea DriftNeighborhoodSea Drift is a 22-lot Santa Rosa Beach plat recorded October 29, 2021 in Plat Book 23, Page 86, with its streets and about 6.5 acres of common area listed under the owners association.
- Sea DunesNeighborhoodSea Dunes is a Walton County subdivision of houses on Tradewinds Drive, Gulf Winds Way and Sea Dunes Cove, with Santa Rosa Beach addresses.
- Seagrove ShoresNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSeagrove Shores 4th Addition is a 36-parcel Walton County subdivision on Canal Street in Santa Rosa Beach, recorded in Plat Book 3, page 29 and mapped inside the county's Old Seagrove neighborhood overlay.
- Seagrove VillageNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSeagrove Village is two recorded Walton County additions in Santa Rosa Beach, a 15-parcel sixth addition and a 20-parcel seventh addition with Phase II, on Suzanne Drive, Seagrove Village Drive and Janet Drive.
- SeahauntsNeighborhoodSeahaunts is 32 townhouse parcels in two rows of four lots on South Spooky Lane in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, all recorded as built in 1983.
- SeahighlandNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSeahighland is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision recorded in Plat Book 2, page 46, with 59 parcels carrying its name in county records, 16 of which reach into Zone VE, the coastal wave-action flood zone, on the county flood map.
- Seanest VillageNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSeanest Village is a two-phase 2004 plat of houses and vacant lots on Sand Oaks Circle in Santa Rosa Beach. County labels count 28 single-family parcels and 15 vacant ones among its 44, every parcel reads flood Zone X, and the whole plat sits outside any city, zoned Village Mixed Use by Walton County. Its homeowners association is active on the state registry and named on the common parcel, but neither record lists member lots or rules, and only the recorded declaration will show them.
- Seashore VillageNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSeashore Village is a small Walton County community of 21 parcels in four connected recorded plats on Seashore Circle and Majestica Circle in Santa Rosa Beach, with 20 of the 21 reading only Zone X on the county flood map.
- Seclusion BayNeighborhoodSeclusion Bay is recorded by Walton County as Santa Rosa Beach subdivision series 24-2S-20-33190, with its plat in Plat Book 15, page 94.
- Serenity at Dune AllenCommunity · Built 2020A compact Dune Allen plat where 87 lots occupy about 6.2 acres, every one of them built, in the only Neighborhood Infill zoning district among the inland communities here, and where three lots at the Dolphin Drive end carry mapped wetland and Zone A flood ground that the rest of the plat does not.
- Shadow PinesNeighborhoodShadow Pines is a 31-parcel Santa Rosa Beach plat recorded November 10, 2004 (Plat Book 16, page 38): 26 single-family lots built 2008 to 2023, four vacant lots and one common-area parcel.
- Shelter Cove EstatesNeighborhoodShelter Cove Estates is two county record groups in Santa Rosa Beach, the Revised First Increment platted in 1976 and a Second Increment the county labels unrecorded, and flood hazard ground crosses both.
- Shortline Lake EstatesNeighborhoodShortline Lake Estates is two platted communities beside one lake in Santa Rosa Beach: Phase I (15 parcels, filed 1987 at Plat Book 7, page 49) and The Cottages (39 parcels, filed 1992 at Plat Book 9, page 44), which differ in lot size and flood zone, and The Cottages plat calls its roads private.
- Somerset Bridge At SeagroveNeighborhoodSomerset Bridge at Seagrove has 16 recorded homes on Somerset Bridge Road in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, built between 1992 and 2024 on lots 21 through 40.
- South HavenNeighborhoodSouth Haven Townhomes in Santa Rosa Beach is recorded with Walton County under subdivision number 33-2S-20-33600: 28 townhouse parcel IDs and one shared common-area ID, all built in 2006.
- Southern PinesNeighborhoodSouthern Pines, recorded December 19, 2018 in Plat Book 21, pages 54 through 56, has 36 single-family lots and one shared common-area parcel; the 34 homes on the state roll date from 2019 and 2020.
- StonegateNeighborhoodStonegate is a 70-ID Walton County series, recorded in 2018 and separated in county records from Stonegate Villas.
- Sugar Sands EstatesNeighborhoodSugar Sands Estates is a 39-lot planned unit development off Sugar Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, approved by the county in 2017.
- SugarwoodNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSugarwood is recorded as Walton subdivision 14-3S-19-25210, with Plat Book 10, Page 32 and Wood Beach Drive address context in Santa Rosa Beach.
- Summer PlaceNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSummer Place is fourteen 2009 townhomes and one common-area parcel on Summer Place Lane, recorded January 17, 2006 in Plat Book 17, page 38.
- Summer RidgeNeighborhoodSummer Ridge is twelve platted lots on Summit Drive, recorded August 7, 2002 in Plat Book 15, page 15, with a common-area parcel beside them.
- Summer's EdgeNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSummer's Edge is a 72-lot development recorded in five plats, with 77 parcel IDs in county records and four lots partly inside a mapped coastal high-hazard flood zone.
- Sunrise BeachNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleSunrise Beach is Walton County plat 02-3S-20-34200, recorded in Plat Book 9, page 32, with 41 parcels on the county roll: 39 single family, one vacant lot and one streets-and-easements parcel. Seven of its lots lie mostly in a coastal high-hazard flood zone, and a search on the name alone returns the wrong set of parcels.
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14 places- The CoveNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleCove at Santa Rosa, a ten-lot plat recorded in 2021 on Carefree Lane West in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, is the closest county match to The Cove.
- The Hammocks of SeagroveNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleThe Hammocks of Seagrove is recorded by Walton County as HAMMOCKS AT SEAGROVE, series 14-3S-19-25300, recorded in March 2000 under Plat Book 14, page 24: 45 lots and one common-area parcel, with 35 lots coded single family and 10 vacant on the county roll.
- The RetreatCommunity · GatedA gated plat reached from Scenic 30A but standing hundreds of feet back from it, with private gulf frontage on one side that its association publishes at 3,000 feet and Draper Lake on the other, under a 365 day minimum rental period.
- The ShoalNeighborhoodListings call it The Shoal, while Walton County records the plat as THE SHOALS, number 34-2S-19-24060, in Plat Book 26, page 68. It holds 31 parcels: 30 lots, of which 20 carry houses that the 2026 property roll dates to 2025 and 10 are vacant, plus one common parcel of about 6.9 acres drawn in six pieces.
- The Village Of White CliffsNeighborhoodThe Village of White Cliffs is Walton County plat series 12-3S-20-34631 in Plat Book 10, page 18, with 62 parcel numbers in Santa Rosa Beach: 52 single-family, nine vacant and one common-area parcel. A parcel number and legal lot and block identify a property more reliably than a street name.
- The WoodsNeighborhoodThe Woods in Santa Rosa Beach is two recorded Walton County subdivisions: subdivision 27-2S-19-24050 in Plat Book 12, page 23, and its Phase II, 34-2S-19-24051, in Plat Book 16, page 54. The two parcel series hold 69 parcel numbers: 67 lots and two common-area parcels.
- Thirty BluNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleThirty Blu is Walton County subdivision 12-3S-20-34051, recorded July 2, 2012 in Plat Book 18, page 66. The county lists 13 parcels for it: 12 townhouse lots of under 1,000 square feet each and one common-area parcel of about 0.74 acre. Each of the twelve townhomes carries a 2012 completion year on the 2026 roll.
- Thompson WoodsNeighborhoodThompson Woods is two recorded Walton County plats off Thompson Road in Santa Rosa Beach. Phase I, formerly Assisi Villas Phase I, has 40 lots with 33 classed single-family, and Phase II was recorded July 29, 2025 as 33 lots that the county still classes as vacant.
- Topsail WalkNeighborhoodTopsail Walk is a 24-lot Santa Rosa Beach plat filed June 11, 2007 at Plat Book 18, page 9; Walton County lists all 24 lots as single-family parcels beside one common-area parcel.
- Town of Santa RosaNeighborhoodThe old platted townsite on low ground behind Hogtown Bayou, which Walton County still calls Old Town of Santa Rosa in its own engineering work, with a county park at the plat's edge and a mapped flood elevation that sits above the ground.
- Tranquility By The BayNeighborhoodApproved by Walton County in 2005, Tranquility By The Bay holds fifteen houses on Tranquility Lane and Tranquility Court in Santa Rosa Beach.
- Treasure TroveNeighborhoodTreasure Trove Estates is a 52-lot Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in Walton County with homes on Galley Lane, Krewe Circle and Las Roblas Grande Drive.
- Tresca PlaceNeighborhoodTresca Place is a nine-lot subdivision of single-family houses on Seapointe Lane, recorded January 27, 2005 in Plat Book 16, page 46, with Santa Rosa Beach addresses and a separate common-area parcel that includes the lane.
- Turquoise BeachNeighborhoodTurquoise Beach is a Santa Rosa Beach subdivision in Walton County recorded across four separate plat filings in the county's own records.
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2 places- Ventana DunesNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleVentana Dunes is a 72-lot subdivision on Ventana Boulevard in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, approved as a planned unit development in 1996.
- Village Of Sugar BeachNeighborhood · Short-Term Rental EligibleVillage of Sugar Beach is a 41-lot subdivision on Sugar Sand Lane and Sand Dollar Court in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County, platted in 1995 with a first addition surveyed in 1998, holding 34 homes, seven vacant lots, a lot the county's legal text labels a pool area, and a common-ground parcel.
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5 places- Walton's LandingNeighborhoodWalton's Landing is a 2021 plat of 73 house lots and 98 townhouse lots at Chat Holly Road and Nellie Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, Walton County.
- Water OaksNeighborhoodWater Oaks is a 2005 Walton County plat off Mussett Bayou Road in Santa Rosa Beach, with houses on Water Oaks Loop and townhomes on Shady Oaks Lane.
- Whispering LakeNeighborhoodWhispering Lake is a Walton County subdivision in Santa Rosa Beach, two recorded plats of single-family lots off Veterans Road north of US 98.
- Windsor EstatesNeighborhoodWindsor Estates is a Santa Rosa Beach plat recorded in June 2006 at Plat Book 17, page 66, with 39 single-family lot parcels and one association-owned common area. The 38 houses on the 2026 state roll date from 2012 to 2014, and county maps put seven lots and the common area partly in Zone A flood ground and fifteen parcels partly in a Conservation district.
- Woodland Bayou EstatesNeighborhoodWoodland Bayou Estates is a Santa Rosa Beach plat at Plat Book 5, page 26 that the county draws as 67 parcels: 49 single-family, 15 vacant, one multi-family under ten units, one site improvement and one owners-association parcel. The county flood layer puts ground from 60 of the 67 in a special flood hazard area.
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Santa Rosa Beach Neighborhood Questions
Why do Santa Rosa Beach listings feel so unlike each other?
Because the address is a mailing designation spanning a large slice of south Walton County rather than one town. A bayfront parcel near Point Washington, a newer subdivision along the 98 corridor, and a cottage near Gulf Place share the address while living completely differently. Sorting candidates by their band of the county first makes every later comparison easier.
Can a Santa Rosa Beach property realistically support a boating lifestyle?
On the bay side, absolutely. Streets near Choctawhatchee Bay, Hogtown Bayou, and the Intracoastal support docks and small-craft launches, while the gulf side of the address is about walking to the beach rather than keeping a hull wet. Public ramps around the bayous fill the gap for owners whose own street lacks water frontage.
How much do covenants vary from one Santa Rosa Beach subdivision to the next?
Enormously. This one address contains loosely governed older streets with nearly no recorded restrictions and tightly administered newer plats where design review, fencing, and rental posture are all controlled. Adjacent subdivisions can disagree on all of it, so pull the declarations for the specific plat early rather than carrying assumptions over from the last neighborhood you toured.
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