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Millions of vacationers from all over the world come to stay in Kissimmee, Florida real estate to attend the nearby attractions of the Orlando area. Since Kissimmee is located in the center of Florida’s family playground, a continuous flow of new residents is moving into Kissimmee, Florida existing homes or resale homes every day. Searching Kissimmee, Florida MLS resale listings is almost effortless on NewHomesRealEstate.net because we have volumes of comprehensive listings of Kissimmee existing homes for sale, from mansions to investment properties to fixer-uppers.

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Kissimmee, Florida Area Demographics

With a location near the geographic center of the Florida peninsula and with direct access to the theme parks of the Orlando area, Kissimmee, Florida real estate is close to almost everything in the Sunshine State, less than an hour’s drive from the Atlantic Ocean and less than two hours from the great beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.

Kissimmee, Florida has a population of 59,364 (2005 U.S. census estimate). Kissimmee is the county seat of Osceola County (population: 231,578), which has had an increase in population of nearly 60,000 since the last official census in 2000. St. Cloud, Florida (population: 22,508), about 10 miles southeast of Kissimmee, is the only other incorporated city in Osceola County. Both cities serve as the temporary home for thousands of visitors to Disney World and the other theme parks and attractions that surround the Orlando, Florida area. Orlando (population: 213,233) is located in adjacent Orange County, which has a population of 1,023,023, making it the state’s sixth most populous county of the state’s 67 counties. There are about 1.8 million permanent residents in the Orlando metropolitan area, which includes Orange, Osceola, Lake and Seminole counties. The Orlando metro area (Greater Orlando) is the third-largest metro area in Florida (after South Florida and Tampa Bay) and No. 28 in the U.S.

Osceola County covers about 1,506 square miles. Most of the county’s population and commerce are concentrated in the northwest area of the county, where Kissimmee is located. The southern two-thirds of the county remain largely undeveloped, although many new developments are proposed. There are about 10 established unincorporated communities in Osceola County, with Buenaventura Lakes, Florida (population: 21,778) the largest, followed by Poinciana, Florida (population: 13,641). Celebration, Florida, an unincorporated “model town” designed by Disney in the 1990s, has about 3,000 residents, while Lake Buena Vista, often given as the official location of Disney World, has just 15 official residents.

Both Osceola and Orange counties have large and increasing numbers of Hispanic residents and are home to one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing Puerto Rican communities. African-Americans represent a growing sector of residents; Eatonville, Florida, just north of Orlando, was the first all-black town to be incorporated in the U.S. in 1887.

Kissimmee’s subtropical climate produces temperatures in the low 90s in the summer months, but the average high in January is also quite comfortable, in the low 70s, with an average winter low around 50 degrees. Snowfall is extremely rare; the last time a trace of snow was recorded was in 1989. Although the summer heat index occasionally pushes past 110 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in Orlando was 102 degrees (in 1998) and the all-time low was 19 degrees (on one of the coldest days in U.S. history in 1985). Prevalent summer thunderstorms contribute to an annual rainfall of about 50 inches. Orlando is often called the lightning capital of the U.S.

In a period of about six weeks during August and September 2004, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne struck Osceola County and surrounding areas, causing widespread damage.

Kissimmee, Florida History and Culture

Kissimmee, Florida real estate today is primarily a bedroom community for its theme-park neighbors, Orlando and Orange County. The history of Kissimmee, Florida real estate has been heavily influenced by the Disney Corporation, which transformed a massive swath of undeveloped land in central Florida into one of world’s premier entertainment destinations. Many of the people who visit Orlando-area attractions stay in Kissimmee accommodations. The Orlando metropolitan area hosts more than 50 millions tourists per year (second in the U.S behind Las Vegas).

The most critical event in Osceola County’s economic history occurred in 1965 when Walt Disney announced plans to build Walt Disney World in neighboring Orange County. The world-famous vacation resort opened in October 1971, ushering in explosive economic and population growth for the surrounding area. Orlando quickly became the centerpiece of the area’s economy. A robust economy has led to an extremely low unemployment rate in Greater Orlando of 2.8 percent (May 2006), yet produced skyrocketing housing prices that increased 34 percent from August 2004 to August 2005. Many apartments have been converted to condominiums since 2003.

Orlando International Airport, one of the world’s busiest airports, opened in 1970, carved out from a portion of McCoy Air Force Base, which closed in 1974, although the airport still retains the former Air Force Base code (MCO). It is considered a world-class facility.

Kissimmee’s pre-Disney history is similar to many cities in Florida, which had little significant development until the 20th century, although Native American Indian tribes lived in the area for thousands of years. The area of Osceola County was originally named Mosquito County in 1824. The area became Orange County in 1845, the year that Florida became a state. Osceola County was officially founded in 1887, carved out of portions of Orange and Brevard counties. Until 1917, when the current county lines were established and Okeechobee County was created, Osceola County reached all the way south to Lake Okeechobee. Osceola County is named for the famed Seminole Indian leader Osceola (1804-38).

Citrus farming, once prevalent in central Florida, has all but died out, replaced by commercial enterprise and residential development, while citrus production moved further south. Cattle ranching was an important part of the local economy for at least a century before the opening of Walt Disney World. Tourism and development supplanted many of those ranch operations and pushed the remaining ones to the southern part of Osceola County.

Kissimmee, Florida Attractions, Activities and Amenities

Kissimmee, Florida real estate sits in the shadow of the world’s top vacation destination, the 47-square-mile Walt Disney World Resort, which is the largest theme park in the world. The resort complex, which includes the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney-MGM Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom, is actually located southwest of the Orlando city limits, primarily in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The resort also contains two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach, six golf courses, a sports complex (Disney’s Wide World of Sports), an auto race track (Walt Disney World Speedway), 20 resort hotels and numerous shopping, dining and entertainment offerings, many of them located at Downtown Disney.

Dozens of other Orlando-area attractions, many of them located in Kissimmee and Osceola County, dazzle the senses, from Universal Orlando Resort (which includes the Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure theme parks as well as CityWalk, an entertainment district that has a 20-screen movie theater complex and numerous restaurants, shops and nightclubs) to SeaWorld Orlando (a large adventure park that features numerous marine and zoological displays alongside water rides and roller coasters), to Orlando’s International Drive, a veritable smorgasbord of entertainment and dining.

Old Town, in Kissimmee, is home to restaurants, amusement rides and shops, as well as classic car shows on weekends. Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament in Kissimmee, features jousting knights on horseback.

St. Cloud distinguishes itself from its tourist-related neighbors by promoting its small-town atmosphere. With two-and-a-half miles of beautiful lakefront and a historic downtown, St. Cloud provides an escape from the high-energy excitement of the Orlando-area theme parks.

Some of the other Orlando-area attractions include:

Kennedy Space Center is less than an hour’s drive from most of Osceola County and south of Daytona Beach. Visitors can tour launch areas, see giant rockets, ride spaceflight simulators and perhaps catch a space shuttle launch.

The beaches of the Atlantic Ocean are also about an hour’s drive or less from most of Osceola County.

The University of Central Florida opened in Orlando in 1963 and with more than 45,000 students, is the second-largest institution of higher learning in Florida, after the University of Florida, and ranks seventh in the nation in enrollment. Rollins College in Winter Park has about 1,700 students.

Orange County is home to the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association. The Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League have won two league championships. The Citrus Bowl is the home of the Capital One Bowl (formerly the Florida Citrus Bowl) and the Champs Sports Bowl (formerly the Tangerine Bowl). The Citrus Bowl also hosts regular-season football games for the University of Central Florida.

Baseball’s Houston Astros have conducted spring training at Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee since 1985. Cracker Jack Stadium, located at the nearby Disney Wide World of Sports complex, is the spring training home of the Atlanta Braves.

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