Fastest-growing place for kids in US is the last place you'd expect

The fastest-growing place for young people in the US is the last place you might expect: a metro area that includes a 55-plus retirement in Central previously labeled a 'drunken' hotbed for elderly hookups.

The Villages, located between Sumter and Marion counties, is described as one of the nation's largest retirements communities yet its neighboring Wildwood has seen a youth invasion over the last decade.

Its fastest growing demographic is children aged 14 and under, reported. There has been a staggering 18.4 percent rise due, in part, to the working-age population soaring by 19.1 percent, the U.S. Census Bureau data showed.

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