Lake Eola Heights, Orlando: homes, schools, parks and commute

Last checked Oct. 9, 2026. Sources: the City of Orlando’s neighborhood boundaries, address points, parks and historic district (local, National Register) open data, Orange County Public Schools’ Find My School zones for 2026-27, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades, Zillow Research, LYNX, SunRail and OpenStreetMap.

Lake Eola Heights is the neighborhood directly north of Lake Eola Park: about 243 acres between Robinson Street and Colonial Drive, from the edge of the downtown core east to Mills Avenue, on the City of Orlando’s map. The city maps both a local Lake Eola Heights Historic District and a National Register district of the same name over it.

The city’s address data lists 888 residential addresses: 486 single-family homes, 256 multifamily buildings, 57 apartment buildings and 89 condominium addresses. The streets with the most of them are Amelia, Concord, Livingston, Harwood and Hillcrest streets, Broadway Avenue, Ridgewood Street and Highland Avenue.

What this means for you

• High school: Edgewater High, graded B by Florida for 2026 (A in 2025).
• Home value: $469,267 in ZIP 32803 in August 2026, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.
• Nearest I-4 exit: Exit 85, Princeton Street, about 1.6 miles by road; Exit 83, Anderson Street, about 1.7 miles.

Part of our Orlando neighborhoods guide.

Where it is

The neighborhood borders downtown’s Central Business District to the west and southwest, Thornton Park to the southeast, Colonialtown South to the east and Park Lake/Highland to the north, on the city’s map. It falls inside the Downtown Development Board area and the Downtown Community Redevelopment Area in the city’s land use data, so some downtown programs apply here.

ZIP codes: 32803 for 698 of the residential addresses and 32801 for 190, the blocks nearest downtown.

Schools

Every residential address in the neighborhood falls in these zones in Orange County Public Schools’ 2026-27 zone layer:

Grades are from the Florida Department of Education; each school name links to its state report card. Hillcrest Elementary, listed as a magnet school in OCPS’s school sites data, is inside the neighborhood, but it is not the zoned school for these homes. Check any address with OCPS’s Find My School tool. More in our schools guide.

Home values

The typical home value in ZIP 32803 was $469,267 in August 2026, up 0.9% from $465,166 in August 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index. In ZIP 32801 it was $341,859, down 3.6% on the year. The index is a modeled typical value for the middle third of homes, single-family homes and condos together, not a sale price, and each figure covers a whole ZIP code: 32803 also takes in Audubon Park and the Milk District. Zillow’s figure for the city of Orlando was $371,120, down 1.4% on the year. More in our home prices guide.

Parks and trails

The city’s parks data shows no park inside the boundary, but two border it:

• Lake Eola Park, 195 N. Rosalind Ave., 46 acres, along the neighborhood’s south edge
• Park Lake Park, 723 Highland Ave., about 12 acres, on its north edge

Kevin R. Tyjeski Park, a small downtown park, is just over the west edge. More in our parks and trails guide.

Getting around

• Interstate: I-4 Exit 85, Princeton Street, about 1.6 miles by road from the middle of the neighborhood, and Exit 83, Anderson Street, about 1.7 miles.
• City Hall (400 S. Orange Ave.): about 1 mile.
• Airport: about 13.2 miles by road to Orlando International Airport.
• These are distances measured on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM routing engine, not drive times.
• SunRail: LYNX Central station is about 0.5 miles away and Church Street about 0.9 miles, in a straight line.
• Bus: LYNX’s current schedule data lists 14 stops in the neighborhood, served by Links 28, 29, 51, 102, 104 and 125 and the free LYMMO Lime line. Times are on LYNX’s route pages.

More in our getting around guide.

Groceries and everyday stores

OpenStreetMap lists no supermarket or pharmacy inside the boundary. The nearest it maps, each about 0.6 miles from the middle of the neighborhood in a straight line:

• Publix, 400 E. Central Blvd., with a pharmacy
• Dong-A Supermarket, 816 N. Mills Ave.
• CVS Pharmacy, 1201 E. Colonial Drive

How we drew this area

This page uses the Lake Eola Heights polygon in the City of Orlando’s neighborhood layer, which OpenStreetMap also names as a neighborhood. Address counts, ZIP codes and school zones come from the city’s issued residential address points matched to Orange County Public Schools’ 2026-27 zone layer on Oct. 9, 2026. An apartment building counts as one address. Store and road data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Lake Eola Heights?

Directly north of Lake Eola Park, between Robinson Street and Colonial Drive, east of the downtown core to Mills Avenue, on the City of Orlando’s neighborhood map.

What ZIP code is Lake Eola Heights?

Mostly 32803, with the blocks nearest downtown in 32801. Zillow put the typical home value at $469,267 in 32803 and $341,859 in 32801 in August 2026.

Is Lake Eola Heights a historic district?

Yes. The city maps a local Lake Eola Heights Historic District and a National Register district of the same name over the neighborhood.

Is Lake Eola Heights a good place to live?

Here are the facts. It is a 243-acre neighborhood with 888 residential addresses in the city’s data, most of them single-family homes, bordering Lake Eola Park and Park Lake Park and about half a mile from the LYNX Central SunRail station. Homes are zoned for Lake Como School and Edgewater High, both graded B in 2026.