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Mangonia Park, FL

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Overview


Mangonia Park is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,324 people and just one neighborhood, Mangonia Park is the 376th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Mangonia Park isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mangonia Park are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mangonia Park is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mangonia Park who work in office and administrative support (17.09%), food service (13.58%), and maintenance occupations (9.42%).

Setting & Lifestyle

For a small town, Mangonia Park has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Mangonia Park exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Mangonia Park with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mangonia Park in 2018 was $20,542, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,168 for a family of four. However, Mangonia Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mangonia Park is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mangonia Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mangonia Park residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Mangonia Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.18% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mangonia Park include Haitian, Jamaican, African, Bahamian, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Mangonia Park's cultural character, accounting for 17.03% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Mangonia Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and French Creole.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 27.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.9% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 15.1% have Jamaican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Mangonia Park are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.4% of U.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, 39.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.9%), and 16.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

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 Mangonia Park, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (18.1%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (10.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 18.8% 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.3%) 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 (12.9%) and 7.6% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. 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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