Heartland · Highlands County

Living in Avon Park, Florida

Avon Park is a city in Highlands County, with about 10,057 people.¹ It feels small-town or low-density suburban, at 987 people per square mile.^1,3

10,057¹people

$144,700¹median home value

$921/mo¹median rent

49.5¹median age

Nearest 24-hour emergency room

HCA Florida Highlands Hospital, in Sebring, about 9 miles away.²

Straight-line distance from the town's center; driving is longer. Freestanding ERs and urgent care aren't counted.

Life in the Heartland

Florida's cattle, citrus and lake country, between the two coasts: Sebring and Avon Park on the ridge, Wauchula and Arcadia on the Peace River, and Okeechobee, Clewiston and LaBelle around the big lake.^{4,5,6,7,8,9,10}

Hazards: Hurricanes cross the peninsula: storms that come ashore on either coast can reach the region with damaging wind, falling trees, long outages and river flooding. Mobile and manufactured homes should evacuate.⁷

Visitor information

Highlands County's official tourism office: Visit Sebring (Highlands County).¹¹ Ask about local events, things to do and a free visitor guide, if they offer one.

Read the free Heartland preview, including the region's state-certified visitor centers.

The full Avon Park town card

Choosing Your Place has the complete card for Avon Park and 779 other places:

How its home values, rent, age and income compare with the rest of the Heartland
Household income, and how many ER hospitals are within 15 miles
The nearest airline airport and the nearest big airport
The full region profile, side-by-side compare and the monthly-cost calculator

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Other places in Highlands County

Sebring · 11,382 people · home value $191,600
Lake Placid · 2,477 people · home value $261,300

Written by Charles Squires, North Port, Florida. 40 years living in Florida, in eight places.

I called on schools in Arcadia, Sebring and the towns around them.

More about the author and how this manual is made

"Median" means half are above and half below. Figures are U.S. Census Bureau estimates for Avon Park as a Census-defined place; the area a mailing address calls Avon Park can be larger.