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Century, FL

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Overview


Century is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,736 people and just one neighborhood, Century is the 394th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Century is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.15% of the Century workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Century is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Century who work in healthcare suport services (17.44%), maintenance occupations (10.79%), and sales jobs (10.25%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Century has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Century a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Century is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Century, the average commute to work is 30.96 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The population of Century has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.44% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Century in 2018 was $17,047, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,188 for a family of four. Century also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.14% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Century is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Century home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Century residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Century include Irish, German, Dutch, English, and Acadian/Cajun.

The most common language spoken in Century is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.4% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 5.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of America's neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. In the neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 97.2% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Century are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 39.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.0%), and 15.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Century, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (2.9%), and residents who report Scottish roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (18.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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