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Chattahoochee, FL

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Overview


Chattahoochee is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,970 people and just one neighborhood, Chattahoochee is the 344th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Chattahoochee is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.49% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Chattahoochee is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chattahoochee who work in healthcare suport services (15.56%), office and administrative support (14.29%), and maintenance occupations (10.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Chattahoochee is worth considering.

One downside of living in Chattahoochee is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Chattahoochee, the average commute to work is 30.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Chattahoochee have a very low rate of college education: just 9.40% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Chattahoochee in 2018 was $16,330, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,320 for a family of four. However, Chattahoochee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chattahoochee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.18% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the neighborhood.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Chattahoochee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 36.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (25.0%), and 12.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Chattahoochee, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.7%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (90.5%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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