Celebration by the Numbers: 11,178 People and a $635,000 Median Home Value
Census QuickFacts for Celebration CDP counts 11,178 residents in 2020, with a $635,000 median home value and $96,242 median household income for 2020 to 2024.
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Celebration had 11,178 residents at the 2020 Census, a median owner-occupied home value of 635,000 dollars in the 2020 to 2024 survey period, and a median household income of 96,242 dollars in the same period. Those are the headline figures from the United States Census Bureau’s QuickFacts page for Celebration CDP, Florida. Every figure in this article comes from that page, and every figure carries its vintage in the text, because the page mixes two different kinds of measurement and they are not interchangeable.
The first kind is the decennial census, a count. The second is the American Community Survey five-year estimates for 2020 to 2024, a survey-based estimate expressed in 2024 dollars where the page says so. QuickFacts itself warns that estimates from different sources may not be comparable and that users should exercise caution when comparing 2020 to 2024 ACS five-year estimates with other ACS estimates. The full data tables are linked from the Celebration news hub coverage, and the town’s wider profile sits on the Celebration area portal.
What a CDP is, and why it matters here
CDP stands for census-designated place. It is a statistical geography the Census Bureau draws for a settled, named community that is not an incorporated city. Celebration is unincorporated Osceola County. It has no city limits, no mayor and no municipal boundary of its own, so the Census Bureau’s CDP boundary is the closest official outline of the town for statistical purposes.
That has two consequences readers should hold on to. First, the figures below describe the census place, not a city, and not exactly the same footprint as the Celebration Community Development District or the Celebration Residential Owners Association, whose boundaries are legal and association boundaries rather than census boundaries. Second, there is no annual population estimate series for Celebration on the QuickFacts page. The population estimate rows for 1 July 2025 are marked not applicable, so the most recent population figure is the 2020 Census count itself. Anyone quoting a current population for Celebration beyond 11,178 is using a source other than this page.
Population and land
The Census counted 11,178 people in Celebration CDP on 1 April 2020. The 2010 Census counted 7,427. The increase between the two counts is 3,751 people, a rise of just over half in a decade, reflecting the phased building described in our villages guide, including the later phases on the town’s western side.
The land area of the CDP was 10.53 square miles in 2020, against 10.54 square miles in 2010, a difference the page records without treating as a boundary change of substance. Population density was 1,062.0 people per square mile in 2020, against 704.9 per square mile in 2010. The town’s founding and growth in context are covered in Celebration at 30.
Households and who lives in them
For the 2020 to 2024 period, QuickFacts records 5,404 households in Celebration CDP, with 2.52 persons per household. The share of people living in the same house one year earlier was 75.6 per cent for people aged one year and over, in the same 2020 to 2024 period.
On age, the page gives two headline shares. People under 18 made up 27.9 per cent of the population, and people aged 65 and over made up 18.7 per cent. People under five made up 5.9 per cent, and female persons made up 50.3 per cent. Those age shares describe a town with a substantial school-age population alongside a significant retired population, which matches the institutional shape of the place: a kindergarten to grade 8 school and a high school inside the community, covered in our Celebration K-8 guide and our Celebration High School guide.
Housing: value, tenure and rent
The median value of owner-occupied housing units in Celebration CDP was 635,000 dollars for 2020 to 2024. The owner-occupied housing unit rate over the same period was 58.3 per cent, which means a little over two in five homes in the CDP were not owner-occupied, a tenure mix that includes rented homes and the town’s condominium stock.
Median selected monthly owner costs were 2,897 dollars for homes with a mortgage and 1,155 dollars for homes without a mortgage, both for 2020 to 2024. Median gross rent was 2,020 dollars for the same period. Those three cost figures sit alongside the value figure, and none of them is a current asking price. They are survey estimates for a five-year window centred before the present market, and our Celebration real estate guide treats current market questions separately, from dated market sources.
Income, work and education
Median household income in Celebration CDP was 96,242 dollars in 2020 to 2024, expressed in 2024 dollars. Per capita income over the past 12 months, on the same basis and in the same period, was 56,117 dollars. The share of people in poverty was 3.8 per cent.
On work, 61.8 per cent of the population aged 16 and over was in the civilian labour force in 2020 to 2024, and the mean travel time to work for workers aged 16 and over was 27.5 minutes. On education, 98.2 per cent of people aged 25 and over were high school graduates or higher in 2020 to 2024, and 59.0 per cent held a bachelor’s degree or higher. On language and origin, 21.6 per cent of people aged five and over spoke a language other than English at home in 2020 to 2024, and 16.4 per cent of residents were foreign-born in the same period. Veterans numbered 932 in 2020 to 2024.
On connectivity, 97.5 per cent of households had a computer in 2020 to 2024 and 88.6 per cent had a broadband internet subscription. On health measures on the same page, 5.1 per cent of people under 65 had a disability in 2020 to 2024, and 6.6 per cent of people under 65 were without health insurance.
How to read these numbers
Three cautions apply to the whole set. First, vintage. A figure labelled 2020 to 2024 is an average picture across five survey years, not a reading for November 2026, and it should never be quoted without its period. Second, geography. These are CDP figures. They will not match a total built up from CDD assessment rolls, CROA membership or a estate agent’s service area, because those are different boundaries drawn for different purposes. Third, precision. Survey estimates carry sampling error, and QuickFacts notes that some apparent differences between places may be statistically indistinguishable. The figures are the best official statistical portrait of Celebration available. They are not a valuation of any individual home, and they are not a substitute for the adopted documents behind the town’s charges, which are covered in our CDD explainer.
Used with their vintages attached, the numbers describe a small, dense, comparatively affluent census place of 11,178 counted residents, 5,404 households, high educational attainment and high housing costs relative to its county, still growing between censuses as its later villages were built out. Past data coverage is collected in the Celebration News archive.
More from this desk: the Celebration news hub, the Celebration area portal and the Celebration News archive. See also Celebration real estate guide, Celebration’s villages, explained, Celebration at 30.
Sources & notes: United States Census Bureau, QuickFacts, Celebration CDP, Florida, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/celebrationcdpflorida/PST045224, for every figure in this article: 2020 Census population 11,178 and 2010 Census population 7,427; land area 10.53 square miles (2020) and density 1,062.0 per square mile (2020); households 5,404 and persons per household 2.52 (2020 to 2024); median household income 96,242 dollars and per capita income 56,117 dollars (2020 to 2024, in 2024 dollars); median owner-occupied home value 635,000 dollars, owner-occupied rate 58.3 per cent, median gross rent 2,020 dollars and median monthly owner costs (2020 to 2024); under 18 at 27.9 per cent and 65 and over at 18.7 per cent; bachelor’s degree or higher 59.0 per cent (2020 to 2024); mean travel time to work 27.5 minutes (2020 to 2024); poverty 3.8 per cent. QuickFacts states that July 2025 population estimates are not applicable for this geography. Read November 15, 2026.
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