The City of Wilton Manors is a unique and diverse blend of family and non-family residents in its neighborhoods. Wilton Manors demographics indicate that it is a city with higher education attainment levels and household income distribution. Wilton Manors is a sought-after community with steady home values.

The city is home to a sizable LGBT population as well as winter vacationers, who frequent its many nightclubs and gay-owned businesses along the main street, Wilton Drive. It contains a large Pride center, the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center, and a branch of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives, whose main facility is in neighboring Fort Lauderdale.

Wilton Drive is the equivalent of “Main Street” in Wilton Manors. Over the past twenty years, the Wilton Drive corridor has undergone an economic transformation. Wilton Drive is the city’s arts and entertainment district, home to numerous restaurants, bars, shops, condos and rental developments that have blossomed over the last decade. Many of the businesses in the arts and entertainment district are LGBT-owned and/or operated, and “The Drive” has become a local, regional, and national destination for LGBT tourism.