The neighborhood is predominantly residential with shopping areas, commercial businesses and services. Most of the homes sit directly on the 55 miles of canals and inlets. Seasonally colorful, Plant City has a bounty of winter poinsettias and, in spring, pink and lilac-colored azaleas. However, St. Petersburg is burgeoning to much more than just a lovely retirement hideaway. Lake Tarpon still looks much as it did when the Duke of Sutherland fell in love with the area and bought thirty acres to build an estate overlooking the water many years ago.
Affordable housing makes the city especially popular to retirees and young families.
Major thoroughfares lead directly to Tampa, St. Petersburg, Bradenton and the Gulf Beaches. Although the population is about 9,300 year round, this climbs to 17,000 during the height of the tourist season in February, March and April. The community is bordered on the west by the Gulf, Tarpon Springs on the north, and Dunedin and Clearwater on the south. Each community has plenty of public beach and picnic areas for all to enjoy. The western portion of Pasco County stretches along the Gulf of Mexico and follows U.S. 19 some twenty miles from the north to the south county lines.