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.

Apollo Beach is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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.

One downside of living in Apollo Beach is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Apollo Beach, the average commute to work is 31.07 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Apollo Beach is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Apollo Beach, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.92% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

The percentage of people in Apollo Beach who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.05% of adults in Apollo Beach 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.