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Tarpon Springs, FL
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Tarpon Springs profile


Living in Tarpon Springs



Tarpon Springs is a medium-sized coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 25,890 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Tarpon Springs is the 127th largest community in Florida.

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

A relatively large number of people in Tarpon Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.17% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

One of the nice things about Tarpon Springs is that it is nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

One downside of living in Tarpon Springs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.79 minutes every day commuting to work.

In terms of college education, Tarpon Springs is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.03% of adults in Tarpon Springs have a college degree.

The per capita income in Tarpon Springs in 2018 was $49,150, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $196,600 for a family of four. However, Tarpon Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tarpon Springs is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tarpon Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tarpon Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tarpon Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.58% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tarpon Springs include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Greek.

The most common language spoken in Tarpon Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.