Orlando Demographics: Who Lives in the City and in Orange County

Orlando city had 319,758 residents and Orange County as a whole had 1,471,937 in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 5-year estimates, so the city holds about 21.7 percent of the county.

The two figures cover different places and should not be mixed. The city estimate covers Orlando city as a Census place (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orlando city); the county count covers the whole of Orange County, including Orlando and the other municipalities (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orange County). Orange County's own About Us page lists the cities whose residents vote for the county mayor: Orlando, Apopka, Bay Lake, Belle Isle, Eatonville, Edgewood, Lake Buena Vista, Maitland, Oakland, Ocoee, Windermere, Winter Garden and Winter Park (Orange County).

Three different Orlando and Orange County population numbers circulate on official sites. The City of Orlando history page says that as of 2026 the city's population is 339,999 residents, a more recent figure than the ACS 2020-2024 estimate of 319,758, though the page does not say how it was produced (City of Orlando). Orange County's About Us page still shows a population of 1,378,538, a density of 1,269 people per square mile and a trend table that stops at 2017 with 1,313,880 residents (Orange County). The county box gives no year for that population figure, and it is 93,399 lower than the ACS 2020-2024 county estimate of 1,471,937, so the two official numbers conflict.

Orlando is slightly younger than Orange County: the median Orlando resident is 35.1 years old against 36.6 countywide in ACS 2020-2024, and only 11.3 percent of city residents are 65 or older.

In Orange County, 13.0 percent of residents are 65 or older (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orange County). Children make up the same share in both places: 21.4 percent of Orlando residents and 21.4 percent of Orange County residents are under 18. Orlando has a slightly larger share of the youngest children, 6.4 percent under age 5 compared with 5.6 percent in the county (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orlando city).

The city has 95.7 males for every 100 females, and among Orlando residents 65 and over the ratio falls to 71.5 males per 100 females (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orlando city). Adults 25 and over in Orlando are also more likely to hold a degree: 42.5 percent have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 39.3 percent across Orange County (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP02, Orlando city; Orange County).

Orlando has no majority group: in ACS 2020-2024, 35.4 percent of residents were Hispanic or Latino of any race, 31.2 percent non-Hispanic white, 22.2 percent non-Hispanic Black and 4.8 percent non-Hispanic Asian.

Puerto Ricans are the largest Hispanic group the Census profile names separately in Orlando, at 14.5 percent of all city residents, compared with 2.3 percent Cuban and 2.1 percent Mexican, while another 16.5 percent belong to other Hispanic or Latino groups combined (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orlando city). Orange County follows the same pattern at a slightly smaller scale: 33.8 percent Hispanic or Latino and 13.6 percent Puerto Rican (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orange County).

Non-Hispanic white residents make up 35.9 percent of Orange County and non-Hispanic Black residents 19.1 percent. One Orlando figure needs care: 24.2 percent of city residents are counted under Two or More Races, but only 5.3 percent are non-Hispanic residents of two or more races, so most of the people in that Orlando group are Hispanic (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP05, Orlando city).

Most Orlando residents were not born in Florida: only 34.6 percent were born in the state, 30.4 percent in another state, 9.5 percent in Puerto Rico, a U.S. island area or abroad to American parents, and 25.4 percent in another country.

Of Orlando's foreign-born residents, 77.0 percent were born in Latin America and 60.6 percent are not U.S. citizens (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP02, Orlando city). Orange County's foreign-born share is close at 24.3 percent, but a smaller share of the county's immigrants, 50.7 percent, are not citizens (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP02, Orange County).

At home, 40.8 percent of Orlando residents age 5 and over speak a language other than English, mostly Spanish at 28.0 percent, and 17.9 percent speak English less than very well. The Orange County figures are 38.5 percent, 26.2 percent and 15.2 percent.

The median Orlando household earned $72,336 in 2024 dollars in ACS 2020-2024, below the Orange County median of $79,719, and 14.7 percent of city residents lived below the poverty level against 13.0 percent countywide.

Per person, the order flips: Orlando's per capita income is $43,312, above Orange County's $41,160 (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP03, Orlando city; Orange County). Orlando households are also smaller, averaging 2.41 people against 2.72 in the county (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP02, Orlando city).

Orlando residents are more likely to be working: 72.6 percent of those 16 and over are in the labor force, against 67.5 percent in Orange County, and the unemployment rate in the five-year estimate was 5.2 percent in the city and 5.5 percent in the county. Education, health care and social assistance employ 19.8 percent of working Orlando residents, and arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services another 16.0 percent. The average Orlando commute is 26.2 minutes against 28.0 in the county, and 16.2 percent of Orlando workers worked from home.

Orlando is a renter city: 60.5 percent of its 131,179 occupied homes were rented in ACS 2020-2024, while Orange County is majority owner with 56.8 percent of occupied homes lived in by their owners.

Orlando's housing stock leans toward large buildings. A quarter of Orlando's 148,754 housing units, 25.1 percent, sit in buildings with 20 or more units, compared with 14.4 percent across Orange County (Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024, DP04, Orlando city; Orange County). Only 3.2 percent of Orlando units were built in 2020 or later, against 3.4 percent in the county.

Prices are close in city and county. The median value of an owner-occupied home is $394,100 in Orlando and $390,100 in Orange County, and median gross rent is $1,747 in the city and $1,775 in the county. Rent takes a large share of income for many: 48.1 percent of Orlando renters, and 49.5 percent of Orange County renters, pay 35 percent or more of household income for rent. The Orlando real estate guides, including the market trends page and the neighborhood pages for Baldwin Park, College Park, Lake Nona and Thornton Park, cover neighborhoods and prices in more detail.

For comparing Orlando with Orange County on the same footing, the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates in the table below are the figures to use; the City of Orlando's own figure of 339,999 as of 2026 is the more recent number for the city alone.

Each ACS number is a 5-year survey estimate published with a margin of error, so it will not match the city's 2026 figure or the county's undated About Us box. Sources for the table: DP05 Orlando, DP05 Orange County, DP03 Orlando, DP04 Orlando, DP03 Orange County, DP04 Orange County. Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the U.S. Census Bureau, City of Orlando and Orange County websites.

No separate deep guides sit under the Orlando demographics section yet. The Orlando town guide gives the short version of these figures with City Hall contacts, the Orlando economy guide and its major employers page cover jobs, the Orlando real estate section covers neighborhoods and prices, and the Orlando schools guide covers Orange County Public Schools.