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Lutz is an unincorporated census-designated place spanning northern Hillsborough County and southern Pasco County, about 15 miles north of downtown Tampa.

Lutz began around a small depot on the Tampa Northern Railroad, and the community took the name of W. P. Lutz, the railroad official credited with bringing the line - and its post office - to the area.

In the 1890s, German Catholic settlers led by Father Xavier Stemper founded a colony called Stemper on the northwest shore of Lake Hanna, one of the rural settlements that predated modern suburban Lutz.

Lutz had a population of 23,707 in the 2020 census, up from 19,344 in 2010, as Tampa's suburban growth spread into what was long a rural farming community.

Lutz has about 9,589 households with a relatively large average household size of 2.79 people, according to U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts.

The Lutz CDP covers about 27.1 square miles, roughly 9 percent of it water, in a landscape dotted with dozens of small lakes.

A replica of Lutz's original railroad depot, rebuilt in 2000, stands at the intersection of Lutz-Lake Fern Road and U.S. Highway 41 as the community's landmark.

Local students attend George M. Steinbrenner High School in Lutz, a public high school opened in 2009 and named for the late New York Yankees owner, who lived in Tampa.