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 State:     Florida

City:       Longwood

Longwood is a city in Seminole County, Florida, USA. The population was 13,745 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 13,529 ^[1]. It is part of the Orlando--Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area.

With the advent of World War II, growth began to impact Longwood as military personnel flowed into the new Naval Air Station Sanford to the north and Orlando Army Air Base to the south. Although both bases saw either inactivation or drastically curtailed operations immediately following the end of World War II, exigencies of the Cold War resulted in all bases being back in full operation only a few years later. By the 1950s, NAS Sanford was being converted into a Master Jet Base for carrier-based attack aircraft and, along with the redesignated Orlando Air Force Base and nearby Pinecastle AFB/McCoy AFB, saw even more military families renting or purchasing homes in Longwood. In 1959, the City had slightly over 1,000 residents and a city limit boundary that measured approximately 1-mile (1.6 km) by 1-mile (1.6 km) square. In 1960, Longwood Elementary School was constructed and opened inside the city limits. During the 1950s and 1960s, the city also boasted its own airport, essentially a single runway grass airstrip for local private airplanes. Longwood Airport was located on the west side of the city and on the north side of State Road 434, until it was closed and developed into tract housing that became The Woodlands subdivision in the mid-1960s.

New economic and development opportunities were brought to the area in the 1960s and 1970's, fueled by both the military and the space industry, as newly-arriving Longwood residents were employed at Martin-Marietta's new missile plant in Orlando, Naval Air Station Sanford, Orlando Air Force Base (redesignated Naval Training Center Orlando in 1969) and McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, as well as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Patrick Air Force Base and the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County. The development and opeing of Walt Disney World in October 1971, along with other tourist attractions and the high technology corridor of businesses near Florida Technogical University (FTU), now the University of Central Florida (UCF), fueled even further growth. With the growth of Central Florida during the 1970s and 1980's, Longwood developed into primarily a residential community for residents working elsewhere in Seminole County or in adjacent Orange County. By 2000, the city had taken significant steps to reviatlize its downtown historic district, expanded its borders through annexation and in the process gained a resident population exceeding 13,700.

Income & Housing Costs Numbers:

Estimated median household income in 2008: $60,862 (it was $51,667 in 2000)

Longwood:	$60,862
Florida:	$47,778

Estimated per capita income in 2008: $26,815

Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $223,197 (it was $100,000 in 2000)

Longwood:	$223,197
Florida:	$218,700

Mean prices in 2008: All housing units: $236,051; Detached houses: $242,073; Townhouses or other attached units: $177,835; In 2-unit structures: $233,488; Mobile homes: $165,385

Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Longwood: 86.9 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

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http://www.city-data.com/city/Longwood-Florida.html

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