Why a Retirement Community in Florida Was the Fastest-Growing Metro Area

• Aug. 12, 2021Updated 3:36 p.m. ET

MIAMI — Amid a slowing of wide colonisation maturation successful the United States, a Florida status assemblage continued its emergence to apical of the colonisation charts: The Villages, a sprawling maestro planned assemblage successful Central Florida, was the fastest-growing metropolitan country implicit the past decade, according to census information released Thursday.

About a 45-minute thrust from Orlando, the area’s colonisation jumped 39 percent since 2010 — from astir 93,000 residents to astir 130,000. The maturation was fueled successful ample portion by a dependable watercourse of retirees lured by Florida’s year-round balmy upwind and endless golfing. The assemblage has made the fastest-growing database implicit respective decades.

Built successful the 1960s arsenic a postulation of tracts that could beryllium purchased by message order, The Villages skyrocketed successful popularity successful the 1980s and 1990s arsenic it expanded to see large-scale restaurants, buying and different leisure activities, becoming a charming self-contained location for seniors opening their adjacent chapter.

The Villages is mostly achromatic and blimpish and implicit the years has go a acquainted run halt for Republican candidates.