Osceola County runs south from the Orange County line: Kissimmee and St. Cloud, Celebration, the subdivisions along US 192, and a long stretch of flat ranch country beyond them. Its population has multiplied since 1980, and a great deal of its asphalt is young. This page covers the towns, the ground, and what the two cities ask for at the street.
Kissimmee, the county seat, and St. Cloud are the two incorporated cities. Around them are Celebration, Buenaventura Lakes, Campbell, Harmony and Narcoossee, and further out the rural communities of Kenansville, Holopaw and Intercession City. The service area is about forty miles around Orlando, which takes in Kissimmee, St. Cloud and the northern half of the county comfortably. For addresses further south, send the address and you will get a straight answer on whether it is in reach.
Lake Tohopekaliga, which everyone calls Lake Toho, sits on Kissimmee's southern edge and is the largest lake in the county, with East Lake Toho beside St. Cloud. Water covers about 12 percent of the county. South of the two cities the land opens into flat, low prairie, ranch country through the twentieth century and still largely rural.
Flat ground is the defining problem for pavement here. A drive or a lot with almost no fall does not shed a thunderstorm, it holds it, and the water that sits on the surface finds every open crack and soaks the sand below. On the rural roads and longer drives out toward Narcoossee and Harmony, the edges are often unsupported, with grass or a swale right against the asphalt, and those edges are what breaks up first.
Osceola County was formed in 1887 from parts of Orange and Brevard. Census figures put it at 49,287 people in 1980 and 388,656 in 2020, nearly eight times as many. The growth followed the theme parks on its northern edge, and the jobs and vacation-home trade that came with them. Celebration, which the Walt Disney Company built in the 1990s with its first homes finished in 1996, is the best known of the planned communities.
Growth that fast leaves a particular mix of pavement. There is a lot of asphalt that is only a few years old, and a new driveway should not be sealed for its first six to twelve months, so some of the most useful quotes here are the ones that say wait. There are whole communities of vacation rentals, where nobody who lives there full time is watching the drive. And there are older neighborhoods in central Kissimmee and St. Cloud where the asphalt has had decades of sun and never been sealed at all.
Sealing and crack filling on your own side of the sidewalk are not right-of-way work. Anything that touches the apron is done under the correct permit, and the current fee is written on the quote.
Plenty of homes around Kissimmee and along US 192 are vacation rentals owned by people who live somewhere else. If that is you, a driveway quote does not need anyone at the house. The drive is measured from aerial imagery, looked at on the ground by the contractor, and you get photos, a written scope and a price by email. Work is scheduled between bookings, and the notice for the day can go straight to your property manager or cleaning company.
Probably, if it was paved when the house was built. Past the first year, a first coat of sealer is usually worth doing before the sun has greyed it through.
Not for resealing an existing asphalt driveway at a single family home or duplex, going by the city's own guidance, as long as there is no striping and nothing in the right-of-way is touched.
Send the address. Longer rural drives are worth the trip, and you will be told plainly if it is outside the area.
Neighbouring counties: Orange to the north and Lake to the north west.
