Active Adult Communities in Central Florida

The Greater Orlando Metro area in Central Florida has 24 active adult communities are spread across five counties — Orange, Osceola, Lake, Polk, and Seminole — within about an hour of downtown Orlando, with Lake County (10 communities) and Osceola (7) holding the largest share.

Every one is 55+ under the federal HOPA 80/20 standard, meaning at least 80% of occupied homes must have a resident 55 or older — not that younger households are shut out entirely.

The builders skew toward the national active-adult names: Del Webb/Pulte account for roughly a third of the list, alongside Lennar, Taylor Morrison, D.R. Horton, K. Hovnanian, Shea, Jones Homes, Beazer, and Medallion. Build dates run the full range — Winter Park Gardens goes back to 1964, while Del Webb Lakehaven, Del Webb Minneola, and Lennar's Sanctuary at Wellness Ridge are still under construction now.

Greater Orlando Metro Active Adult Communities

Amenities and Activities

The clubhouse is the organizing feature in nearly all of them, and the square footage is a fair proxy for how much each developer leaned on it. They range from compact condo clubhouses up to Trilogy Orlando's ~57,000 sf Magnolia House, with Del Webb Orlando (~30k sf Montecito), Summit Greens (~28k), and Del Webb Sunbridge (~27k) close behind.

A handful sit on or beside golf — Four Seasons at Orlando is built inside Mystic Dunes Golf Club — and Twin Lakes anchors its ~20,000 sf clubhouse on the shore of Live Oak Lake. Pickleball, pools, fitness, and a full social calendar are standard for clubhouses at this scale, though the per-community amenity specifics aren't itemized in the source data.

Finding the Right Type of Retirement Home

Housing runs from low-rise condos (Winter Park Gardens, Escondido, Gatherings of Lake Nona) through attached villas to detached single-family, and the scale gap between communities is wide.

Solivita spans the Polk/Osceola line at roughly 5,900 homes; Kings Ridge runs about 2,088 and Lakes of Mount Dora near 950, while Serenity Reserve (85 homes) and Winter Park Gardens (111 condos) sit at the small end.

Several aren't standalone communities at all but gated 55+ enclaves inside larger developments — Tohoqua Reserve within Tohoqua, and both Del Webb Orlando and High Vista inside Ridgewood Lakes. The list also splits between resale-only established communities (Summit Greens, Kings Ridge, High Vista) and active new construction (Del Webb Lakehaven, Del Webb Minneola, Sanctuary at Wellness Ridge) — which matters to a buyer choosing between picking finishes and moving in now.