Tangelo Park is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, Tangelo Park had a population of 2,459. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.9 km (0.3 mi<sup>2</sup>), all land.
The neighborhood is built on land formerly used for orange groves and named after the tangelo, a particular hybrid of citrus that mixed tangerines and pomelos. Originally built as housing for workers at the nearby missile testing grounds, it has become an isolated residential area surrounded by big-box stores and tourist traps on International Drive, as well as office parks and resorts to the east.
Demographics
Racial and ethnic composition
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Tangelo Park, Florida – Racial and ethnic composition<br><small></small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(NH = Non-Hispanic)</small>
!Pop 2000
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|167
|118
|style='background: #ffffe6; |116
|6.87%
|5.29%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.72%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|2,149
|1,839
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,686
|88.44%
|82.43%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |68.56%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|3
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.12%
|0.13%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.04%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|5
|7
|style='background: #ffffe6; |30
|0.21%
|0.31%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.22%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|2
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.08%
|0.09%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|0
|16
|style='background: #ffffe6; |26
|0.00%
|0.72%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.06%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|40
|29
|style='background: #ffffe6; |54
|1.65%
|1.30%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.20%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|64
|217
|style='background: #ffffe6; |546
|2.63%
|9.73%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |22.20%
|-
|Total
|2,430
|2,231
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,459
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Tangelo Park had a population of 2,459. The median age was 36.1 years. 24.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 15.4% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 88.4 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 83.9 males age 18 and over.
100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 770 households in Tangelo Park, of which 34.8% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 31.8% were married-couple households, 17.4% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 41.6% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 19.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. Speaking in 2015, the sheriff of Orange County described Tangelo Park as "a changed neighborhood", with a significant reduction in violent crime. Rosen recalled his first visit to an elementary school class in Tangelo Park at the start of the project, where only two or three children expressed a desire to go on to college, to which Rosen said "That has to change." When he returned and asked the same question a year later, "every hand went up".