Englewood is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Charlotte and
Sarasota
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counties in the U.S. state of
Florida
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. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 20,800, up from 14,863 at the 2010 census. It is part of the
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Archeological digs in what is now Englewood discovered ceramics belonging to both the
Weeden Island culture
The Weeden Island cultures are a group of related archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period (500 - 1000 CE) of the North American Southeast. The name for this group of cultures was derived from the Weedon Island site ...
and
Safety Harbor culture.
One of the earliest white settlers in the area was William Goff, who arrived by schooner from Tampa in 1878.
He settled a piece of land a few miles south of where Englewood would be platted. On July 3, 1895, a post office was established in the area as well. The
Great Freeze
The Great Freeze was a period of back-to-back freezes during the winter of 1894–95 in the Southern United States, particularly notable for destroying much of the citrus crop in Northern Florida.
Entire communities, such as Earnestville, fa ...
of 1894 and 1895, along with a bad freeze in 1896, led to the decimation of many local orange plants. For this reason, by 1897, a Manatee County General Directory listed fish as the chief product for Englewood.
[Deming, et al (1990). p. 123.]
The original plat of Englewood was recorded and filed on August 17, 1896.
[ The home lots were , and the grove lots—likely intended for citrus—were . The area was developed by three brothers, and the name Englewood came from their hometown, ]Englewood, Chicago
Englewood is a neighborhood and community area located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is also the 68th of the 77 community areas in the city. At its peak population in 1960, over 97,000 people lived in its approxim ...
.[ Some streets, such as Dearborn, Harvard, and Yale, are named after those in Chicago.
In 1898, the Englewood Inn was opened, a relatively large hotel with 16 rooms. The hotel serviced visitors from up north until it burned down in 1909.][
Both Sarasota and Charlotte Counties were created in 1921. Englewood was initially more on the Sarasota side of the modern county line; as it expanded, it came to be more equally in both counties.
In 2024, heavy rainfall from ]Hurricane Helene
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followed less than two weeks later by storm surge
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from Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton was an extremely powerful and destructive tropical cyclone which in 2024 became the most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded over the Gulf of Mexico, tying with Hurricane Rita in 2005. Milton made landfall on the west coa ...
caused extensive damage to Englewood. A number of houses were flooded during Helene and then destroyed during Milton.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 24.99%, is water.
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, Englewood had a population of 20,800 with 10,173 households which resulted in a rate of 1.92 persons per household.
By age the population was split with 1.2% under 5 years old, 6.3% under 18 years old, and 57.5% 65 years and older. 50.3% of the population were female persons. By race, the population was split with 95.5% white, 0.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.1% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 1.9% two or more races, and 1.3% Hispanic or Latino. There were 2,626 veterans living in the city and 7.2% of the population were foreign born persons.
The CDP had an owner-occupied housing unit rate of 85.6%. The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $233,800. The median gross rent was $1,068. 93.1% of households had a computer and 84.5% had a broadband internet subscription.
94.2% of the population 25 years and older were High School graduates or higher and 30.2% of that same population had a Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Education
The Englewood Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) is a special district created by the Sarasota County Board of County Commissioners in 1999 on the Sarasota side of Englewood. The Sarasota and Charlotte County School Districts have an interlocal agreement allowing some Charlotte County residents to use the Englewood Elementary School and the Sarasota County students to use the Middle and High School located in Charlotte County. Englewood has a private utility company, the Englewood Water District, and the Englewood Fire District that serve the community.
Englewood contains multiple public elementary schools
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...
and one public high school
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...
( Lemon Bay High School). Several private schools are also located within Englewood. Englewood Christian Academy, Heritage Christian Academy, and Genesis Christian Academymiddle school
Middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school.
Afghanistan
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.
Popular entertainment includes the beach, restaurant
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s, and a small shopping
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district located primarily along Dearborn Street.
References
External links
Englewood Area Chamber of Commerce
History of Englewood, Florida
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1890s establishments in Florida
Census-designated places in Charlotte County, Florida
Census-designated places in Florida
Census-designated places in Sarasota County, Florida
Former municipalities in Florida
Populated places established in the 1890s
Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida
Sarasota metropolitan area