Heartland · Highlands County

Living in Lake Placid, Florida

Lake Placid is a town in Highlands County, with about 2,477 people.¹ It feels small-town or low-density suburban, at 528 people per square mile.^1,3

2,477¹people

$261,300¹median home value

$1,046/mo¹median rent

39.5¹median age

Small place: Census estimates for places under 5,000 people have wide margins of error. Treat these figures as rough.

Nearest 24-hour emergency room

HCA Florida Highlands Hospital, in Sebring, about 13 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 Lake Placid town card

Choosing Your Place has the complete card for Lake Placid 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
Avon Park · 10,057 people · home value $144,700

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 Lake Placid as a Census-defined place; the area a mailing address calls Lake Placid can be larger.