House Cleaning & Maid Service in Jensen Beach, FL

Jensen Beach sits in the northeast corner of Martin County on the Indian River Lagoon, with its public beach across the water on Hutchinson Island. It has 12,652 residents, a median age of 55.2 and 32.1 percent of the population aged 65 or older -- a seasonal, largely retired community rather than a commuter suburb. It was founded in 1881 by a Danish immigrant, John Laurence Jensen, and by 1895 it was shipping a million boxes of pineapples a year as the self-styled Pineapple Capital of the World, until freezes and fires finished the industry by 1920. The Pineapple Festival still runs downtown every year.

One ZIP, 34957, carries far more than the town itself, and that is what makes this page worth building. It is also the delivery ZIP for Ocean Breeze, and for the Hutchinson Island South community, where the median age is 70.7 and 68.6 percent of residents are 65 or older. Nettles Island, the largest community on the Indian River side of the island, sits in the same ZIP and holds the most concentrated seasonal-rental stock in this market. So a single scheduling block here can cover a year-round house in town, a snowbird condo that has been shut since April, and a rental turning over between guests.

Salt, sand and damp are the whole job on the island side. Salt film builds on sliders and window glass until a quick wipe just smears it, sand walks in at every entry, and a unit closed up through a Florida summer needs air moving and surfaces properly reset rather than a fast pass. Jensen Beach is also a sea-turtle coast -- loggerhead, leatherback and green turtles all nest on these beaches, which is why it calls itself a sea turtle capital as well as a pineapple one.