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Celebration is a master-planned community and census-designated place in Osceola County, originally developed by The Walt Disney Company on land just south of Walt Disney World Resort.

Disney's Celebration Company developed the community on roughly 4,900 acres, with a master plan by Cooper, Robertson & Partners and Robert A.M. Stern designed in the New Urbanism style to evoke pre-1940s small-town America.

The first family moved into Celebration on June 18, 1996, and the community marks November 12, 1996 - the completion of its downtown - as Founders Day.

Interest in the new town was so intense that in 1995 Disney held a lottery to decide which buyers would get the first chance to purchase lots and build homes.

Celebration grew village by village - Celebration Village, West Village and Lake Evalyn came first, followed by North Village, South Village, East Village and Aquila Reserve, and finally Artisan Park.

Famous architects designed Celebration's civic buildings, including Michael Graves, who designed the post office, and Philip Johnson, who designed the town hall.

Disney has since divested most of its control over Celebration, selling the downtown to private investors in January 2004, although several Disney business units still occupy office buildings in the town.

Celebration had a population of 11,178 at the 2020 census, up sharply from 7,427 at the 2010 census.

Celebration has about 5,404 households averaging 2.52 persons each, but only about 58.3% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Celebration is affluent and highly educated - the median value of an owner-occupied home is about $635,000, median household income is about $96,242, and 98.2% of residents age 25 and over are high school graduates or higher.