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Lee, FL

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Overview


Lee is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 379 people and just one neighborhood, Lee is the 474th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lee, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.34% of Lee’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lee is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lee who work in office and administrative support (21.83%), farm management occupations (5.01%), and sales jobs (4.72%).

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, Lee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Lee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Lee has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.48% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lee in 2018 was $17,681, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,724 for a family of four. However, Lee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.31% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Lee is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.63% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lee include German, English, French, Scottish, and Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Lee's cultural character, accounting for 15.95% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Lee 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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.8% 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.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 20.4% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Lee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.1% 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 68.1% 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, 36.6% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.2%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).

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 Lee, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report English roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban ancestry (1.8%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (17.9%) . 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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