Baby Boomers Make Up a Growing Share of This Florida City
Golf carts line the street in the the Villages retirement community outside of Orlando, Florida.
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A popular retirement community in Florida had the fastest population growth of all other U.S. metro areas in recent years as the baby boomer generation entered retirement age.
Population in The Villages, Florida grew 38 percent, from 93,420 to 128,754, in the eight-year span from 2010 to 2018, according to newly released Census data. The Villages metro area shares its name with one of the largest retirement communities in the nation. It’s mostly located in Sumter County, where the median age was 67.4 in 2017, according to Census estimates.