College Park Real Estate in Orlando: Values, Housing and Rules

The College Park Neighborhood Association defines College Park as the land between South Orange Blossom Trail and Orange Avenue, and between Colonial Drive and Fairbanks Avenue (College Park Neighborhood Association).

The name covers a cluster of older subdivisions. The association lists Edgewater Heights, Concord Park, Adair Park, Ivanhoe Heights, Anderson Park, Dubsdread, Palm Terrace, Ardsley Manor, Biltmore Shores and Rosemere as parts of College Park, and its timeline records a 100th birthday party for College Park in 2025 (College Park Neighborhood Association).

Before buying anywhere near the College Park edges, the City of Orlando Planning Division advises checking that a property is inside city limits, because a mailing address that says Orlando can still fall under Orange County jurisdiction (City of Orlando Planning Division).

The city's own anchor in the neighborhood is the College Park Neighborhood Center at 2393 Elizabeth Avenue, open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. (City of Orlando). Princeton Park and College Park Pool share the address, and the park is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day with a playground and restrooms (City of Orlando).

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the City of Orlando, FEMA, Census Bureau and Orange County Property Appraiser websites.

In ACS 2020-2024 estimates, the median owner-occupied home in Census Tract 126, a stand-in for College Park's Edgewater Drive core, was valued at $680,800, against $394,100 citywide (ACS DP04, Tract 126; ACS DP04, Orlando).

The Census Bureau geocoder places 1500, 2600 and 3000 Edgewater Drive in Tract 126 and the College Park Neighborhood Center on Elizabeth Avenue in Tract 127.01, so the two tracts together are a fair public stand-in for the core of College Park (Census Bureau geocoder). In Tract 126, 48.8 percent of owner-occupied homes were valued between $500,000 and $999,999 and 19.8 percent at $1,000,000 or more (ACS DP04, Tract 126). In Tract 127.01 the median was $494,500 and 7.6 percent of owner homes topped $1,000,000 (ACS DP04, Tract 127.01).

These are owner estimates averaged over 2020 to 2024, not sale prices, and tract samples are small. The Tract 126 median carries a margin of error of $86,768 and the Tract 127.01 median a margin of $42,697 (ACS DP04, Tract 126; ACS DP04, Tract 127.01). Recorded sales for a specific parcel are searchable through the Orange County Property Appraiser.

In Census Tract 126, the stand-in used here for the Edgewater Drive core of College Park, 81.9 percent of homes are single-family detached and 15.0 percent were built in 1939 or earlier (ACS DP04, Tract 126).

Another 17.8 percent of the Edgewater Drive tract's homes were built from 1940 to 1949, so roughly a third of the housing there predates 1950 (ACS DP04, Tract 126). Citywide, only 2.6 percent of Orlando housing was built in 1939 or earlier and 31.6 percent is single-family detached (ACS DP04, Orlando).

Tract 127.01, around the College Park Neighborhood Center on Elizabeth Avenue, is more mixed: 55.1 percent of its 2,655 homes are single-family detached, 4.0 percent date to 1939 or earlier and 15.5 percent to the 1940s (ACS DP04, Tract 127.01). Owner occupancy runs 72.0 percent in Tract 126 and 66.9 percent in Tract 127.01, far above the 39.5 percent citywide (ACS DP04, Orlando).

Flood zones in College Park are set lot by lot on FEMA maps, so the answer for any house comes from an address search on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center (FEMA Flood Map Service Center).

FEMA lists the City of Orlando as NFIP community 120186 with a currently effective map date of 09/24/21 and a Community Rating System class of 6. That class earns a 20% flood insurance discount for properties in Special Flood Hazard Areas and 10% outside them (FEMA Community Status Book). FEMA records that class 6 rating as effective since May 1, 2008.

Orlando is working on a better rating. The city's Floodplain Management Plan Study follows FEMA's 10-step CRS planning process, says it is currently on Step 2 of 10, Involve the Public, and could move Orlando from Level 6 to Level 5, which adds another 5% discount for properties in Special Flood Hazard Areas (City of Orlando).

For a College Park closing, FEMA notes that most homeowners insurance does not cover flood damage and that for many people a National Flood Insurance Program policy could cost less than $400 per year (FEMA Flood Map Service Center).

Zoning questions for a College Park property go to the City of Orlando Planning Division at 400 South Orange Avenue, 6th Floor, phone 407.246.2269, which books pre-application meetings and contacts applicants within one business day to schedule one (City of Orlando Planning Division).

The Planning Division page links to a lookup for a property's zoning category and to the application for a Certificate of Appropriateness for major review (City of Orlando Planning Division). Along the commercial spine, the city adopted the Edgewater Drive Vision Plan into code in 2007 (City of Orlando).

Owners of an older College Park house can ask the city to name it a local historic landmark. The City of Orlando counts 51 historic buildings, sites, structures and objects, twelve of them also on the National Register of Historic Places (City of Orlando landmarks). A nomination starts with a call to the Historic Preservation Office at 407.246.3416. A property qualifies if it embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction, or ties to significant people or events; the Historic Preservation Board reviews it, and City Council gives final approval through an ordinance read at two meetings (City of Orlando).

The City of Orlando is redesigning Edgewater Drive in College Park from Lakeview Street to Par Street, starting with a roundabout at Edgewater Drive and Lakeview Street that is expected to go out for construction bids in late 2026 (City of Orlando).

The Edgewater Drive Complete Street Project adds wider sidewalks that meet current ADA standards, calmer traffic, decorative lighting and landscaping. In February 2022 the city narrowed the design to a single cross-section that removes the on-street bicycle lanes in favor of wider sidewalks, and in March 2025 FDOT approved splitting the work into phases (City of Orlando). The corridor last changed shape in 2002, when a road diet cut Edgewater Drive to one travel lane each way with on-street parking and bike lanes. The city timeline shows construction beginning in early 2027 and a total project cost of $5,175,441.22, of which $2,970,360.00 is FDOT Local Agency Program funding (City of Orlando).

The city says it will publish the construction schedule, traffic control and access to homes and businesses as the project nears construction (City of Orlando).

Edgewater Drive also closes for street events. For College Park Main Street JazzFest, the city closes Edgewater Drive from Smith Street to King Street from 12 p.m. on Saturday, November 7, 2026 until 1 a.m. on Sunday, November 8, and temporary no parking may be in place with notices posted (City of Orlando).

The Orange County Property Appraiser lets anyone search College Park parcels by address, owner name and sales, and its Tax Estimator Tool projects taxes for a property being bought or sold (Orange County Property Appraiser).

The homestead exemption, the Property Appraiser says, reduces the taxable value of a homestead property by up to $50,000 (Orange County Property Appraiser).

The appraiser also links a Sales Analysis Tool and a map site that identifies parcels by geographic coordinates, and its office is at 200 S. Orange Avenue, Suite 1700, phone 407-836-5044 (Orange County Property Appraiser).