Fact text

  • Horizon West sits directly next door to Walt Disney World Resort, making Mickey Mouse essentially a neighbor.
  • Despite feeling like a city, Horizon West is technically unincorporated, it has no mayor, no city hall, and no city limits to call its own.
  • Horizon West grew from about 14,000 people in 2010 to over 58,000 by 2020, making it one of the fastest-growing master-planned communities in the entire country.
Your
Horizon West
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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46204
+
Total Population
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$
105909
Median Income
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$
354600
Median Home
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5
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Horizon West
ranks for retirees?
66
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
79
Affordability
64
Healthcare
47
Climate
84

Results

Horizon West

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
79

Florida levies no state income tax, meaning Social Security, pension payments, and IRA or 401(k) withdrawals are all state-tax-free.

State sales tax here runs about

6

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
79
6
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
64

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
64
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
47

The area has

4

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
84

A

Mild

climate — summers peak near

92

°F, winters dip to about

49

°F, with roughly

0

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Mild
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively High

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