Rank

1843of 3,144

Orange, Florida

Score 6.13 / 10· population 1,471,416

Orange County, Florida, takes in Orlando and 12 other municipalities, and the University of Central Florida sits 13 miles east of downtown Orlando with 70,674 students as of fall 2025. Hotels, theme parks, restaurants and similar businesses filled 225,015 of the county's 949,918 jobs in 2024, more than any other industry group. Public employers held 83,395, about one job in eleven, where the national figure is closer to one in seven.

Sources
  • Orange County has 13 municipalities: Orlando, Apopka, Bay Lake, Belle Isle, Eatonville, Edgewood, Lake Buena Vista, Maitland, Oakland, Ocoee, Windermere, Winter Garden and Winter Park ocfl.net
  • UCF's main campus is 13 miles east of downtown Orlando ucf.edu
  • UCF fall 2025 enrollment was 70,674 ucf.edu
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), private leisure and hospitality (supersector 1026: accommodation, food services, arts, entertainment and recreation including amusement parks) employed 225,015 of Orange County's 949,918 covered jobs, the largest of any private supersector data.bls.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), federal (13,962), state (20,054) and local (49,379) government employed 83,395 in Orange County, about 8.8% of covered jobs data.bls.gov
  • In 2024 (annual average, QCEW), government held 22,420,670 of 154,990,441 covered US jobs, about 14.5% data.bls.gov

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)7.6
  2. 2A (state)8.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President4.3
  4. Sales tax4.1
  5. Property tax5.9

Environment

  1. Air quality5.8
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.2

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate6.5
  2. Life expectancy9.4
  3. Government employees9.6
  4. Single-parent households3.8

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