Poinciana
Poinciana is the largest community in the Orlando metro that most Orlando maps leave blank: 69,309 people at the 2020 census — more than Kissimmee, more than Sanford — spread across some 72 square miles where Osceola and Polk counties meet, southwest of Kissimmee, and still unincorporated. It has no mayor and no city hall. What it has is a plan: laid out from 1972 by the Association of Poinciana Villages, which still runs its parks, pools and community life across nine villages.
Daily life runs on Cypress Parkway, the east–west spine where the eating is — a restaurant row as Puerto Rican as the community itself — and out two modern escapes: the Poinciana Parkway toll road (2016) and SunRail’s southern terminus (2018). At the community’s back door sit Lake Marion and thousands of acres of preserve. The magazine’s business rankings have not reached Poinciana yet — the ranked places on this page are its neighbours in Kissimmee and Hunter’s Creek, labelled nearby — so this hub starts with the community’s own ground: its parks, its lake, its food row and its two-county machinery.
Ranked Nearby
These businesses are ranked under neighbouring areas, not in Poinciana itself, and we label them that way on purpose. The rest are the highest-ranked businesses in neighbouring Kissimmee and Hunter's Creek, each linked to its full Top 10.
Boggy Creek Airboat Adventures — Attractions & Things To Do #3 · Net Score 94.7 · Kissimmee, FL · in Kissimmee
Bass Pet Resort & Spa — Pet Groomers & Boarding #4 · Net Score 92.5 · 1043 S Bass Rd, Kissimmee, FL · in Kissimmee
Pienezza Pizza — Pizza #7 · Net Score 91.9 · 3236 N John Young Pkwy, Kissimmee, FL 34741 · in Kissimmee
ette hotel Orlando — Hotels & Resorts #5 · Net Score 91.7 · 3001 Sherberth Rd, Kissimmee, FL 34747 · in Kissimmee
Big John's Rockin' BBQ — BBQ #1 · Net Score 90.9 · 220 E Monument Ave, Kissimmee, FL 34741-5722 · in Kissimmee
Kissimmee Valley Farmers Market — Farmers Markets #8 · Net Score 88.4 · 421 Broadway, Kissimmee, FL · in Kissimmee
Falcon's Fire Golf Club — Golf Courses #6 · Net Score 87.5 · 3200 Seralago Blvd, Kissimmee, FL 34746 · in Kissimmee
El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant — Mexican & Tacos #4 · Net Score 85.4 · 1804 W Vine St, Kissimmee, FL 34741 · in Kissimmee
Rankings data as of Nov 14, 2026.
On the Map
See Poinciana on the Top Spots map — the link opens it on Boggy Creek Airboat Adventures, the top-ranked spot nearby, in Kissimmee. Filter by category to explore the whole region’s 290 spots.
From the Magazine
Poinciana: The 69,000-Person Community Orlando’s Maps Leave Blank
Where to Eat in Poinciana: The Cypress Parkway Food Row
Borinquen: The Pizzeria-Restaurant That Explains Poinciana
Lake Marion: Poinciana’s Front Porch
Vance Harmon Park: Where Poinciana’s Life Concentrates
A Poinciana Family Day, No Theme Park Required
Out of Poinciana: The SunRail, the Parkway and the Commute, Rewired
Two Counties, One Community: Poinciana’s Hidden Machinery
Poinciana’s Wild Side: Lake Marion Creek and Catfish Creek
Date Night in Poinciana: Cypress Parkway to a Lake at Sunset
Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA · via Wikimedia Commons. Graded to the magazine’s photo finish; the scene is unaltered.
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