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De Leon Springs, FL

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Overview


De Leon Springs is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,619 people and just one neighborhood, De Leon Springs is the 355th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in De Leon Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.55% of De Leon Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, De Leon Springs is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in De Leon Springs who work in sales jobs (13.58%), food service (12.40%), and maintenance occupations (11.75%).

A relatively large number of people in De Leon Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.01% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in De Leon Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In De Leon Springs, the average commute to work is 34.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, De Leon Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of De Leon Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.08% of adults in De Leon Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in De Leon Springs in 2018 was $18,473, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,892 for a family of four. However, De Leon Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

De Leon Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call De Leon Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in De Leon Springs, accounting for 60.74% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of De Leon Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in De Leon Springs include German, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in De Leon Springs, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry.

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 De Leon Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.0% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 30.7% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.0%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (32.8%).

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 De Leon Springs, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (37.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 11.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (44.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (12.5%) . 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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