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Doctor Phillips - officially Dr. Phillips - is an unincorporated census-designated place in Orange County, an affluent suburb about 11 miles southwest of downtown Orlando.

The community is named for Dr. Philip Phillips, a Central Florida citrus magnate responsible for key innovations in processing and packaging orange juice.

By the early 1920s Phillips owned thousands of acres of groves across nine Central Florida counties, including all the land that is now Bay Hill, Sand Lake Hills and Turkey Lake Park.

Phillips sold his roughly 5,000 acres in the area in the 1950s, but the developer kept his name for the community that grew up on the old groves.

The population of Doctor Phillips was 12,328 at the 2020 census, up from 10,981 in 2010, at a density of about 3,622 people per square mile.

Nearly 30 percent of the CDP's 4.9 square miles is water, a landscape of lakes in the Sand Lake chain.

Doctor Phillips is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan area, close to the attractions corridor but known locally as a quiet, established residential enclave.