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Orange County Real Estate - Winter Garden
Winter Garden is in East Central Florida. It's population as recorded in the 2010 Census was 34,568. Winter Garden is approximately 13 miles from Orlando (population 238,300) and around 22 miles from Kissimmee (population 59,682).
The median age for residents of Winter Garden is 34.7. Around 44.1% of Winter Garden households include school aged children and 18.8% of households include individuals aged 65 years or over. Census records indicate 68.7% of the Winter Garden population are White, 15.9% are Black or African American, .3% American Indian, 5% Asian and 3.6% are Two or more Races. Winter Garden has a significant Hispanic population. 22% (7,606) of Winter Garden residents are of Hispanic or Latino origin. Of these 29.47% are of Mexican origin, 34.7% Puerto Rican, 5.49% Cuban and 30.31% are of other Hispanic or Latino origin.
There are 13,260 housing units in Winter Garden. 1,385 (10.4%) of these were reported as vacant in the 2010 Census. There are 3,810 residential rental units in Winter Garden. 3,482 of them were occupied in 2010 providing a residential rental vacancy rate of 8.3%.
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Orange County
Orange County is part of the East Central Florida region along with Brevard, Volusia, Sumter, Seminole, Lake, and Osceola Counties. With a population over 1.1 million, Orange is the fifth most populous county in Florida. Incorporated municipalities include Apopka, Bay Lake, Belle Isle, Edgewood, Lake Buena Vista, Maitland, Ocoee, Orlando, Winter Garden, Winter Park, Eatonville, Oakland, and Windermere.
Orlando is Orange County's largest city and is home to many of the country's most popular theme parks, making tourism the county's primary industry. Other main industries for Orange County are life sciences & health care resources; modeling, simulation & training resources; optics & photonics resources; and clean technology. Orange County's largest private sector employers are Walt Disney World, Adventist Health Systems, Universal Orlando, Orlando Health, and Busch Entertainment Corp. Top public sector employers are Orange County Public Schools, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Orange County Government, and The University of Central Florida.
For many in the United States and across the world, Orlando is synonymous with the Walt Disney World Resort. Indeed, Disney produced a study indicating that the resort and businesses associated with it were responsible for an $18 billion economic impact, 2.5% of the GDP of the state of Florida. The Greater Orlando area also hosts the Universal Orlando theme parks, each of which features a Harry Potter-themed section. In addition, numerous tourist attractions exist, mostly catering to a family audience, such as miniature golf courses, arcades, and amusement parks.
Greater Orlando has a business side, too. Orange County is also home to the University of Central Florida, which is the second largest public university in the country at approximately 60,000 students. UCF has a partnership with the Central Florida Research Park, the seventh-largest research park in the country, located next close to the university. Orlando is an important city for the military, including pilot training with its varied flight simulators and production facilities. Madden NFL Football, the most popular video game franchise in the country, is created in Orlando by Electronic Arts.
As its name implies, rural Orange County is a center of citrus production. Much of the land is given over to orange groves. Apopka hosts a Minute Maid juice flavoring plant.