About Sunny Isles Beach

Sunny Isles Beach is a somewhat small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 15,275 people and just one neighborhood, Sunny Isles Beach is the 171st largest community in Florida.

Sunny Isles Beach is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 89.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sunny Isles Beach is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sunny Isles Beach who work in sales jobs (21.90%), office and administrative support jobs (15.57%), and management occupations (14.20%).

Of important note, Sunny Isles Beach is also a city of artists. Sunny Isles Beach has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Sunny Isles Beach's character.

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

Sunny Isles Beach is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the city experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller city.

Sunny Isles Beach is a major retirement destination. In fact, people 65 and over make up 32.18% of the population. For those considering a place to retire, Sunny Isles Beach may be a good choice because much of the city's services and social community are oriented toward the over-65 demographic.

Sunny Isles Beach, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the city.

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Sunny Isles Beach are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

One downside of living in Sunny Isles Beach, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.01 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small city, Sunny Isles Beach doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Sunny Isles Beach Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Sunny Isles Beach citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.20% of adults in Sunny Isles Beach have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Sunny Isles Beach in 2000 was $27,576, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,304 for a family of four.

The people who call Sunny Isles Beach home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sunny Isles Beach is White, followed by African-American. Sunny Isles Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.69% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Sunny Isles Beach include Russian, Italian, Polish, and Irish.

In addition, Sunny Isles Beach has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (56.84%).

The languages spoken by people in Sunny Isles Beach are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Sunny Isles Beach is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English, Russian, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew.