Actually, the developer has all the data necessary to calculate the average ages in any unit (village, county, street, villa "hood", or any other unit you can devise). All that info is in a database in one of the best data base systems devised by man, the IBM AS400. Rolled out in the 70's, it is a number cruncher second to none. All of the Villages businesses have access to all this data. For example, the loan originator at Citizens Bank has all the notes taken by the person who set up your lifestyle visit, and the address of every home your agent took you to. This is all in addition to your personal info such as name, address, phone #'s , age et al including a picture. The ability is there, I just don't know how much crunching is actually done. I figure somebody is bound to get curious eventually.

We live in one of the smaller Villages. It has 54 homes and because it is geographically isolated from other Villages by a major road, two golf courses and a swamp, over the last eight years we have all learned a lot about each other.

Among those who live here in our village are fascinating people from this continent and the world and among them are people who have moved and shaken this earth before finding their home here. They range in actual age between mid fifties to late eighties, but most of them have hidden inside of them a young and spirited 29 year old.

They all are fascinating to listen to and live close to and some of them fit perfectly into easy friendships and others are among those who just wave and smile.

I believe that people do not change a lot in personality over the course of their lives. Some fit our idea of friends and some do not.

Lots of choices and opportunities to enjoy others here.

Not only that, but many of the manufactured homes are being replaced by new site built homes and the people buying, or building those tend to be on the younger side.

As to the Census Bureau I don't believe that they count The Villages in the census. The Villages lies in several different communities or counties. Some of it is in Lady Lake, some in Wildwood, some in Fruitland Park and possibly Leesburg. The rest lies in unincorporated areas of Sumter and Marion counties. If I'm not mistaken, these what are counted in the census. That may be why it's so difficult to determine exactly how many people live in The Villages.

The Census WILL NOT break out that information by Village. So your reply needs to be revisited. As to why a select few want the information, reading the entire thread may help you with that answer.

OP, post #10 is probably as close as you will get to actual data regarding age and it’s by CDD rather than by Village. We found it to be true that generally you will find the younger retirees living in the newer Villages and we have moved four times in the last 13 years in The Villages. That said, you find chronological age is not necessarily the same as the “actual” age of people either - - If you get my drift. We found living close to what you want (or need) to do the most with your time is more important than what particular Village you live in.

This thread just keeps getting stranger and stranger.. lol

You know Ken. I know you to be in your fifties and at that time in my life I didn't know that age prejudice existed. Now I know about it and it is indeed strange and unwarranted.

I personally think when a person lives here for a period of time they soon discover that age is relative and literally just a number.

Knowing the ages by village might be of interest to some. However the usefulness may approach that of fine tuning measuring a watermelon with a micrometer!!!

There are 60 year olds that look, live and act as though much, much older.....for varied and usually obvious reasons.

There are 80+ year olds that look, live and act more like 55+......for varied and usually obvious reasons.

Unless one lives here any attempting to categorize about one or another's age is nothing more than intellectualizing.

You are correct 'from village to village', but I have to disagree as you look at groups of villages. Look at how the types of amenities have changed from the north to the south. You see changes in the country club restaurants. Have they not changed or closed some of the CC restaurants in the northern areas. Demographics and lifestyle is changing.

THE VILLAGES are stated to be 32.1 sq miles and probably twice that with the new land acquisitions. The Villages will not remain a homogeneous community that it once was and the reason is not ageism, but economics.

No, but I thought about it. :)

I do apologize for calling you 'Dude'.

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