About Pinecrest

Pinecrest is a somewhat small village located in the state of Florida. With a population of 19,181 people and just one neighborhood, Pinecrest is the 144th largest community in Florida.

Pinecrest is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 95.17% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pinecrest is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinecrest who work in management occupations (18.12%), sales jobs (15.68%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.98%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.44% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Pinecrest is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Pinecrest is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Pinecrest Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Pinecrest, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Pinecrest is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 61.56% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Pinecrest in 2000 was $51,181, which is wealthy relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $204,724 for a family of four. However, Pinecrest contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pinecrest home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pinecrest is White, followed by Asian. Pinecrest also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.61% of the village's residents. Important ancestries of people in Pinecrest include English, German, Russian, Irish, Italian, and Polish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Pinecrest's cultural character, accounting for 27.64% of the village's population.

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