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Eagle Lake, FL

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Overview


Eagle Lake is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 3,536 people and just one neighborhood, Eagle Lake is the 340th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Eagle Lake is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Eagle Lake is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eagle Lake who work in office and administrative support (15.37%), sales jobs (12.16%), and business and financial occupations (8.73%).

A relatively large number of people in Eagle Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.42% 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

Being a small city, Eagle Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Eagle Lake who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.05% of the adults in Eagle Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Eagle Lake in 2018 was $34,145, which is middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,580 for a family of four. However, Eagle Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Eagle Lake is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eagle Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eagle Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Eagle Lake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.05% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Eagle Lake include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Eagle Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 4.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry.

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 Eagle Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.8% 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, 27.5% 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 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.5%), and 22.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 63.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (36.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Eagle Lake, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.6%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 14.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (13.9%) . 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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