Winter Springs is a city in Seminole County, Florida, home to about 38,951 people across 15 square miles. Its ZIP code is 32708.
Homes sold for a median of $242 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
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Winter Springs sits on the low, marshy south shore of Lake Jesup, and before it had one name the area went by many: Tuskawilla, Wagner, Clifton, Gee Hammock, White's Landing and Solary's Wharf among them. Much of the land was once part of a Spanish land grant held by New York merchant Moses Levy, and disputes over that grant dragged through the courts into the 1850s. In the steamboat era, wharves on Lake Jesup made the shore a landing point for boats coming up the St. Johns River, but once railroads took over after 1880, the lack of a main rail line or highway left the area rural until after 1950.
The town was incorporated in 1959 as North Orlando. The North Orlando Company began building out the western end of town in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and its sales office at Fairfax Avenue and SR 434 later served as the first city hall. The name caused confusion because the town did not touch Orlando, but a 1966 postcard poll narrowly kept it.
In 1970 the Winter Springs Development Corporation acquired about 3,500 acres east of town, including the land that became Tuscawilla Country Club, and an annexation approved in early 1972 roughly doubled the town's size and made it the largest city in Seminole County by land area. A charter revision followed. The council briefly chose the name Semoran, then reversed itself after objections and settled on Winter Springs, which voters affirmed with the new charter.
Winter Springs grew mostly as a collection of separate planned developments rather than around an old downtown. The western end of the city holds the earliest subdivisions, laid out by the North Orlando Company starting in the late 1950s. The large eastern annexation of 1972 brought in the Tuscawilla area, planned around Tuscawilla Country Club, and the Highlands, a community built with its own clubhouse; the Sheoah golf course opened on the northwest side in the same era.
State Road 434 is the main east-west street, and the city's southern and western sections stretch along it while Lake Jesup and its wetlands form the northern edge. Because the shoreline is low and marshy, much of the lakefront is preserve and park land rather than housing.
The Winter Springs Town Center gave the city a center for the first time. Planned by Dover, Kohl & Partners on roughly 200 mostly undeveloped acres, it uses Tuskawilla Road as a main street running off SR 434, linking a busier Market Square with the smaller Magnolia Square, with offices, shops and housing in surrounding mixed-use blocks. Townhomes and apartments flank the shopping core, and new townhome projects in the Town Center District were still going through city review as of late 2025.
State Road 434 is the main road through the city, connecting west to Longwood and east to Oviedo. State Road 417, the Seminole Expressway toll road, has an interchange at SR 434 in Winter Springs; it runs south into Orange County, where SR 417 continues as the Central Florida GreeneWay with an exit for Orlando International Airport, and north to I-4 in Sanford, with an exit at Lake Mary Boulevard for Orlando Sanford International Airport.
SunRail commuter trains stop in neighboring Longwood at 149 East Church Avenue and run south through Altamonte Springs, Maitland and Winter Park to downtown Orlando's Church Street and LYNX Central stations, and north to Sanford, DeBary and DeLand. LYNX discontinued its Link 434 bus along State Road 434 in January 2026, so it is worth checking LYNX for current routes before relying on the bus.
The paved Cross Seminole Trail is the best walking and cycling route. It runs through the city on an old railroad bed, crosses SR 434 on a bridge, and has trailheads at the Town Center and Central Winds Park. To the south it reaches Oviedo and continues to the Orange County line near the Cady Way Trail, and to the west it passes Spring Hammock Preserve on the way to Longwood, Lake Mary and Sanford.
Central Winds Park, on Lake Jesup near the Cross Seminole Trail, is the city's main park, with sports fields, picnic shelters, a playground and a nature trail with lake views. Near the city dog park, Hicks Avenue leads a short way to a public fishing pier on Lake Jesup, and farther along the trail, the Black Hammock trailhead, on an old rail spur that once ran toward the lake, has parking, water and equestrian parking. Trotwood Park on Northern Way is a smaller neighborhood park.
The Cross Seminole Trail itself is a destination: its section from Oviedo through Winter Springs and Spring Hammock Preserve to Big Tree Park in Longwood follows a former railroad line. Spring Hammock Preserve has an unpaved trail through its wilderness area, Soldiers Creek Park has a short mountain bike trail, and Big Tree Park is known for its very old bald cypress trees and boardwalk.
The Winter Springs Town Center is the closest thing to a downtown, with a fountain, benches and shops around Tuskawilla Road. Golf has been part of the city since the 1970s, with the Tuscawilla and Sheoah courses developed during the city's main growth period.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB)7 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Orlando, FL15 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | Philadelphia, PA857 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Winter Springs; driving is longer.
Source: Airports from OurAirports (scheduled passenger service); city centers and populations from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: Members of Congress from the congress-legislators project; districts from the Census Bureau’s relationship files; governor and mayor from Wikidata.
Winter Springs had 38,342 residents in the 2020 census, up 21% since 2000.
It’s the 110th largest of 954 towns in Florida by population.
Seminole County grew from 10,986 residents in 1920 to 470,856 in 2020.
Seminole County, 1920–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 93°F in summer, and winter lows average 50°F. About 49.8 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Orlando Sanford Ap, FL weather station (7 miles away).
193,461 jobs at 14,897 businesses in Seminole County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
236 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Winter Springs.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 20 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 7 |
| Dentists | 36 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 40 |
| Mental health providers | 84 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 29 |
| Optometrists | 9 |
| Chiropractors | 11 |
| Pharmacies | 14 |
Source: Hospitals from CMS Hospital General Information (ratings are CMS overall star ratings); straight-line distances; providers from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), by practice address and primary specialty.
Parks (14 nearby)
Grocery stores (6 nearby)
Pharmacies (4 nearby)
Libraries
Museums
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 2.5 miles of the center of town.
Source: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), as mapped by volunteers; it can miss places or include closed ones.
Notable people born here
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Seminole. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands Elementary SchoolWinter Springs | Pre-K–5 | 503 | Public | 3.2 mi |
| Keeth Elementary SchoolWinter Springs | Pre-K–5 | 535 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Layer Elementary SchoolWinter Springs | Pre-K–5 | 543 | Public | 1.8 mi |
| Rainbow Elementary SchoolWinter Springs | Pre-K–5 | 729 | Public | 2.7 mi |
| Winter Springs Elementary SchoolWinter Springs | Pre-K–5 | 501 | Public | 2.1 mi |
| Choices in Learning CharterWinter Springs | K–5 | 685 | Charter | 1.7 mi |
| Indian Trails Middle SchoolWinter Springs | 6–8 | 1,116 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Winter Springs High SchoolWinter Springs | 9–12 | 1,940 | Public | 1.7 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle Christian SchoolWinter Springs | K–12 | 1,068 | Christian (no specific denomination) | 2.8 mi |
| The Arbor School of Central FloridaWinter Springs | K–12 | 157 | Nonsectarian | 2.6 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools; Private School Universe Survey (2023-2024) for private schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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