About Greater Northdale

Greater Northdale is a medium-sized town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 20,282 people and just one neighborhood, Greater Northdale is the 134th largest community in Florida.

Greater Northdale is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 89.62% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Greater Northdale is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greater Northdale who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.00%), sales jobs (15.32%), and management occupations (11.64%).

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

In addition, Greater Northdale is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Greater Northdale is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Greater Northdale really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Greater Northdale perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

For most residents of Greater Northdale, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 97.5% of people in Greater Northdale drive alone to work on most days, making Greater Northdale a very car-oriented town. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Greater Northdale's landscape.

Greater Northdale Information and Demographics

The citizens of Greater Northdale are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 33.99% of adults in Greater Northdale have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Greater Northdale in 2000 was $25,579, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,316 for a family of four. However, Greater Northdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Greater Northdale is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Greater Northdale home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Greater Northdale is White, followed by African-American. Greater Northdale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.92% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Greater Northdale include German, Irish, Italian, English, Polish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Greater Northdale is English. Some people also speak Spanish.