About Apollo Beach

Apollo Beach is a somewhat small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 7,469 people and just one neighborhood, Apollo Beach is the 279th largest community in Florida.

Unlike some towns , Apollo Beach isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Apollo Beach are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Apollo Beach is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Apollo Beach who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.36%), sales jobs (16.02%), and management occupations (13.61%).

Also of interest is that Apollo Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One of the nice things about Apollo Beach is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

In Apollo Beach, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.07 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Apollo Beach is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Apollo Beach isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.92% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Apollo Beach does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Apollo Beach Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Apollo Beach is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 21.05% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Apollo Beach in 2000 was $28,583, which is wealthy relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,332 for a family of four.

The people who call Apollo Beach home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Apollo Beach is White, followed by Asian. Apollo Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.91% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Apollo Beach include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Apollo Beach is English. Some people also speak Spanish.