Windshield replacement in East Orlando and around UCF.

Ask someone near UCF where they live and the answer is usually Orlando. The mailing address agrees. The map does not: the university and most of the neighborhoods around it are in unincorporated Orange County, split by the Census Bureau into places such as Alafaya, University and Union Park. Alafaya alone counted 92,452 people in 2020, and their median age was 34.

The University of Central Florida sits on a 1,415-acre main campus 13 miles east of downtown Orlando, along Alafaya Trail. The university counted 70,674 students in fall 2025. More than 12,000 of them live on campus, and two university-affiliated apartment complexes nearby, Knights Circle and The Pointe at Central, add about 3,750 beds. The Central Florida Research Park, with offices and labs, lies directly south of the campus.

South of Colonial Drive the area turns into planned neighborhoods. Waterford Lakes began in 1985 under the name Huckleberry and now has more than 3,100 homes, with its town center opening in phases between 1999 and 2002. Avalon Park, east of Alafaya Trail and south of SR 50, covers 1,860 acres and was established in 1995.

A car on the UCF campus needs a UCF permit, and the rule now applies at weekends too. Visitors can buy a daily permit for $8, good for 24 hours in green student or visitor areas only, and the plate serves as the permit. Service-vehicle spaces need a separate vendor permit that UCF sells by the month or the year.

That makes a campus garage a hard place to replace a windshield. If you live in a residence hall, the simplest plan is usually to meet at a friend's off-campus lot, a family member's driveway or your workplace, wherever vendor work is allowed. If you need the job done on campus, call our Orlando line before you book and we will talk it through.

Large lots full of parked cars draw break-ins. In January 2022, Fox 35 reported more than 70 cars broken into overnight at one Avalon Park apartment complex. If a door window or the back glass is smashed, report it to the Orange County Sheriff's Office first, then send us the photos. Door and back glass are covered on our auto glass page.