Village FYI Stats

[jebartle]

THE VILLAGES


JAN. 2010
Harold Schwartz purchased the Orange Blossom Garden manufactured home
park in the early 70's and in the early 80's convinced his son H. Gary
Morse to join him and help run his enterprise. The Villages concept
was born!!

Average High Temp for Jan. 70 Average low 48

Number of Homes in 2009 was 40,000. Sales of 400 homes a month was a
high 2009 averaged 200 a month.

Pop. 77,000 in Jan. 2010

Population In Lake Co 2010 293,500 2015 328,400
Marion Co. in 2010 330,600 2015 360,700y
Sumter Co. In 2010 99,400 2015 119,100

Planned Homes. 55,805
Av. Home Price for 2008 $234,000.00
Planned Pop. 105,000 by 2017

There are 34 roundabouts



12,000 folks work directly for Villages

62 Villages as of May 2009 at build out 72 are planned
2,417,193 sq feet of retail. The plan is for 2.7 million sq feet
Five Fire-Rescue Stations with response time of 3:56 (Three min. 56
sec.)
2% of Fire/EMS calls are for fire
78% of calls are medical emergency
20% of calls are miscellaneous
Five house fires in 2009


80% of resident trips are inside The Villages by golf carts

A 99,000 sq foot Veterans Clinic completed in 2010
A Hospice Center/The Vlliage Hospital with198 beds 107,000 sq feet/
Promise Hospital with 40 beds for acute care/A new assisted living
fac. /Freedom Point which is a Senior Center 400,000 sq feet


The Village Lifelong Learning College 98% of courses taught by
residents/ Three Charter Schools for elementary/ middle / and high
school with 2000 students

40 Recreation Centers, A polo field/ 4 fitness centers / 74 tennis
courts/100 pickelball courts/50swimming pools/
schuffle boards/lawn bowling/two bowling centers with 40 lanes in 2009
298,299,300 were bowled in Vill.
Woodworking shop/archery range/two libraries/

80 Resturants/40,000 golf carts operating on 87 miles of trails
300 million in carts @$8,000.00 as of 2009

486 golf holes
29 -nine hole executive courses--261 holes
7 -27 Hole Champioship Courses--225 holes
2- 18 Hole Champioship Courses--36 holes
Champioship Rounds in 2009 = 67,000
Executive Rounds in 2009 = 58,000
9000 tee times a day
2.25 million rounds on 9 championsip courses
8000 PGA Members

12 fishing lakes, 85 horseshoe pits
115 bocce courts
1500 clubs

9 softball fields
10,000 softball games per year
502 teams. Adding 11 per year

Villages covers 26,000 acreas / 40 square miles
15 miles North to South
8 miles East to West
Hwy 42 to 466A is 12.5
Hwy 42 to CR44 is 15 miles

Assessed vaule increased 300 million for 2009

Sixteen Movie Screens/4700seats
Resident survey of overall satifaction was 97% in 2009!!!!!

[Donna2]

for all the info. I think I'll make a copy of this.

[billethkid]

Or is it a best guess compilation by _ _ ? _ _?

btk

[2BNTV]

Printed this out and stored in my Villages data file.
This is something that can be shown to friends, to give them an idea of how much is available to people in TV.
Only seeing how beautiful TV is, will surely help to convince people to move to paradise.

[jebartle]

Received this from La Zamora village secretary....Should it be questioned?

[Ceafolks]

Works for me.

[BogeyBoy]

If there are 9000 tee times per day it adds up to a lot more than the (stated) 125,000 rounds played in 09.

[Donna2]

If there are 9000 tee times per day it adds up to a lot more than the (stated) 125,000 rounds played in 09.

I thought it said 2.5 million rounds?

[BogeyBoy]

I thought it said 2.5 million rounds?

This is what I was looking at:

Champioship Rounds in 2009 = 67,000
Executive Rounds in 2009 = 58,000

No matter how you look at it, a lot of golf is played here.

I wonder what the maximum number of tee times would be if every one was filled and every one was played?

[salpal]

THANKS for this! It is truly helpful, especially when trying to explain to non-villagers.

[Bogie Shooter]

Received this from La Zamora village secretary....Should it be questioned?
Depends on where the secretary obtained the information.

[billethkid]

Some of us just have a deeper need to know, based on individual experience.
It is more usual than not, for the source to be provided with such information.
Has nothing to do with the subject matter or the presenter....just a reasonable expectation.

btk

[NJblue]

Interesting data. If accurate and at the current build rate of 200 per month, the remaing approx. 15,000 homes will be complete in a little over 6 years. However, I expect that with more and more boomers retiring and with an improving economy, the pace will pick up and buildout will occur sooner than that.

[NJblue]

Here is one piece of data that I question:
2,417,193 sq feet of retail. The plan is for 2.7 million sq feet
This implies that less than 300,000 sq ft remain to be developed. I think this is way low given that all of Brownwood and its associated mall is yet to be developed.

[billethkid]

adjacent to the current holdings and just keep going. Why would they end a good money making machine?
After a certain size is accomplished, perhaps they will go else where to keep the $$$ pump primed.

btk

[Rob Stevens]

Are you sure about the number of lanes at the bowling centers? Seems low.

[NJblue]

adjacent to the current holdings and just keep going. Why would they end a good money making machine?
After a certain size is accomplished, perhaps they will go else where to keep the $$$ pump primed.

btk

TV must make an annual report to the Sumter County Planning Board. Included in this report is any acquisition of new land or options to buy new land. As of the latest report that is online (May 2009), they said that they have not acquired any new land or options. Of course this is not to say that they won't in the future, but one would think that if they had visions of expanding their footprint that they would be making that move by now or in the near future since the land would have to be contiguous to existing land.

[jaspal]

Thank you for excellent info on TV.

[bike42]

adjacent to the current holdings and just keep going. Why would they end a good money making machine?
After a certain size is accomplished, perhaps they will go else where to keep the $$$ pump primed.

btk

The real money-making machine for the Morse family -- now and for the foreseeable future -- is the commercial property. They fill up all the houses with financially-comfortable retirees and just sit back as they spend their money in all of the stores, restaurants and health care facilities! Brilliant concept. No place else like TV in the entire world.

[Pturner]

Hi Jebartle,

Thanks so much for the hard-to-find statistics. Like BTK, I would love to know the secretary's source of information. Any chance you can find out and let us know?

Thanks again for the great post.

Pturner

[GatbTester]

The amount of information that is available supposedly from the secretary at La Zamora is staggering. Who could conceive one person able to give out all those statistics without having gone through all the channels necessary to clear the process. Surely, some of that info would not be cleared for mass consumption?

[jebartle]

As it turns out, this information has been passed around and from what I can gather is reliable from my source, will continue to "dig up bones"

[JimJoe]

Or is it a best guess compilation by _ _ ? _ _?

btk

Villages covers 26,000 acreas / 40 square miles
15 miles North to South
8 miles East to West
15 times 8 is 120 square miles. Even assuming uneven edges, 40 square miles is low I think.