Intercession City is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in central

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, United States, approximately five miles west of

Kissimmee Kissimmee ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 79,226. It is a principal city of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

, in Osceola County, on Highway 17/92. Osceola County is in the

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zone UTC-5. The average high temperature in July is 91.3 degrees, with an average low temperature in January of 47.2 degrees. The average rainfall is approximately 51.7 inches per year. The population was 851 as of 2010, with an estimated population of 1,492 as of 2015, mostly

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with a median family income of $37,000. 53 residents (5%) are 9 years old or younger, 173 residents (16%) are 10 to 17 years old, 298 residents (27%) are 18–24 years old, 181 residents (16%) are 25 to 39 years old, 368 residents (33%) 40 to 64 years old, and 38 residents (3%) are 65 years and older, the median age of people living in Intercession City is 29.7 years. The majority of residents are

Non-Hispanic whites Non-Hispanic Whites, also referred to as White Anglo Americans or Non-Latino Whites, are White Americans who are classified by the United States census as "White" and not of Hispanic or Latino origin. According to annual estimates from the Unit ...

. Originally known as Interocean City, the region was first developed to be a resort with coast-to-coast canals, but the developer ran out of money to pay his workers in the 1920s.

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