York,
I recall hearing 70K residents in early to mid 2007. Here's a link to a population projection chart from The Villages commercial property division:
http://www.thevillagescommercialprop...ges-market.asp
Not sure when they last updated their projections based on building activity, but, this would imply we are at approx 77K now. Then, the next question is, what counts? Number of resident IDs per household? Number of names on real estate title? Of course, many of these folks are seasonal residents and other homes may have one owner but multiple renters. So, 'population' is a fuzzy number depending on what definition you use.
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