Ellenton is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 4,129 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Ellenton is the 302nd largest community in Florida.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.25% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ellenton has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ellenton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ellenton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ellenton may be for you.

One downside of living in Ellenton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ellenton, the average commute to work is 30.90 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Ellenton is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The rate of college-level education in Ellenton is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.53% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ellenton in 2018 was $26,674, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,696 for a family of four. However, Ellenton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ellenton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ellenton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellenton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ellenton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.23% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ellenton include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Italian.

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