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Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne Guides

We're building this neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city: a real guide to what each part of the Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne metro is actually like, not just a filtered map — from the Lake Eola skyline of Downtown Orlando and the lakeside city of Winter Park to Tavistock's Medical City in Lake Nona, the NASCAR-birthplace beaches of Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach in Volusia County, and the aerospace-and-defense hub of Melbourne on Brevard County's Space Coast. Start with one of the guides below — more are on the way.

Orlando core

Orange

Downtown Orlando

The region's civic and skyline core, built up around Lake Eola after an 1884 fire leveled the original wooden town — City Hall, the region's tallest towers, and seven distinct sub-neighborhoods packed inside a roughly one-square-mile Community Redevelopment Area.

Orange

Winter Park

Incorporated in 1887 as a winter resort for Northern investors, Winter Park sits immediately northeast of Orlando along a chain of navigable lakes and runs its own municipal electric and water utilities.

Orange

Lake Nona

A roughly 17-square-mile, Tavistock-built community in southeast Orange County built around a cluster of medical and research institutions known as Medical City, about 6 miles from Orlando International Airport.

Orange

College Park

A neighborhood immediately north of Downtown Orlando platted in 1925 with streets named for American colleges, anchored today by Edgewater Drive's shops and the Loch Haven Park museum campus.

Orange

Dr. Phillips

An unincorporated Orange County community of 12,328 people (2020 Census) built on land once farmed by citrus processor Philip Phillips, now known for the Sand Lake Road dining corridor called Restaurant Row and its proximity to Universal Orlando.

Volusia County

Volusia

Daytona Beach

A Volusia County city of roughly 88,000 people (Census Bureau, July 2025 estimate) where auto racing on the beach itself gave rise to NASCAR in 1948 and the Daytona 500 in 1959.

Volusia

Ormond Beach

Founded in 1875 as the New Britain settlement on the Halifax River, Ormond Beach hosted the first timed automobile speed trials on its hard-packed sand beach in 1902-1903 and was John D. Rockefeller's winter home from 1918 until his death in 1937.

Brevard County / Space Coast

Brevard

Melbourne

A Brevard County city of roughly 87,600 people (Census Bureau, July 2024) built around the aerospace and defense industry, anchored by L3Harris Technologies' corporate headquarters and Florida Institute of Technology.

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Kissimmee

Guide in progress.

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Sanford

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Winter Garden

Guide in progress.

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Lake Mary

Guide in progress.

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Altamonte Springs

Guide in progress.

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Apopka

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Clermont

Guide in progress.

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Titusville

Guide in progress.