Estero, Florida Village of Estero, Florida Location in Lee County, Florida Location in Lee County, Florida Estero is a village in Lee County, Florida, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the CDP (Enumeration Designated Population) was 18,176.
Florida Gulf Coast University is also positioned just outside the Estero Planning District. Estero is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Estero was established and incorporated by the followers of Cyrus Teed, who proposed a theory that we live on the inside of the Earth's outer skin, and that celestial bodies are all contained inside the hollow Earth.
They were business-oriented and lived communally, prospering enough to found its own political party ("The Progressive Liberty Party") and incorporate the town on September 1, 1904 as Estero.
The Foundation remains as "The College of Life Foundation," which contributed (for example) at least $25,000 to the Gulf Shore Playhouse in or around 2007. The Koreshans' initial tract is now owned by Florida as the Koreshan State Historic Site.
Estero is now an incorporated region of Lee County, as of December 2014, and is known as the Village of Estero.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 20.0 square miles (52 km2), of which 20.0 square miles (52 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.24%) is water. Historically and culturally, the heart of Estero is the spring-fed Estero River, which flows to Estero Bay.
Some of the earliest pioneer of the region (notably the Alvarez, Fernandez, Johnson, and Soto families) were fishing families that lived on Mound Key, a mangrove-ringed island that dominates Estero Bay.
Estero is also the locale of a utopian improve called the Koreshan Unity, which is now preserved as the Koreshan State Historic Site.
There were 4,608 homeholds out of which 10.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 68.2% were married couples living together, 2.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 27.6% were non-families.
In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 9.2% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 14.1% from 25 to 44, 31.1% from 45 to 64, and 40.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $43,734, and the median income for a family was $51,227.
About 1.9% of families and 3.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 1.1% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.
Estero, FL Population Growth and Population Statistics - CLRSearch Map of Estero Planning District "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Census-designated places in Lee County, Florida - Populated coastal places in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico - Former municipalities in Florida - Census-designated places in Florida
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