Plant City is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 30,106 people and ten constituent neighborhoods, Plant City is the 94th largest community in Florida.

Plant City is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Plant City is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Plant City who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.01%), sales jobs (13.07%), and management occupations (7.15%).

Plant City is a very car-oriented city: 96.6% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. In fact, the general consensus among people in Plant City is that if you need to get anywhere, you're going to have to drive. The landscape is very car-oriented, and features shopping centers, strip malls, parking lots, and wide streets. Pedestrians are discouraged by the fact that sidewalks are not always present, which makes attempts at walking downright daunting in certain parts of town.

Plant City is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Plant City Information and Demographics

The education level of Plant City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 16.59% of adults in Plant City have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Plant City in 2000 was $18,815, which is middle income relative to Florida, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $75,260 for a family of four.

Plant City is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Plant City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Plant City is White, followed by African-American. Plant City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.23% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Plant City include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

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