Heartland · Okeechobee County

Living in Taylor Creek, Florida

Taylor Creek is an unincorporated community in Okeechobee County, with about 4,457 people.¹ It feels small-town or low-density suburban, at 1,462 people per square mile.^1,3

4,457¹people

$115,400¹median home value

$1,563/mo¹median rent

54.3¹median age

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

Unincorporated: there's no city government; Okeechobee County provides roads, zoning and law enforcement.

Nearest 24-hour emergency room

HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital, in Okeechobee, about 3 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

Okeechobee County's official tourism office: Visit Okeechobee 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 Taylor Creek town card

Choosing Your Place has the complete card for Taylor Creek 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

Get Choosing Your Place · $9.99 See a full sample card

Other places in Okeechobee County

Okeechobee · 5,479 people · home value $197,700
Cypress Quarters · 1,697 people · home value $220,000

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