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Mascotte, FL

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Overview


Mascotte is a somewhat small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 7,980 people and just one neighborhood, Mascotte is the 253rd largest community in Florida. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mascotte, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Mascotte, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mascotte’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mascotte does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $64,896.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Mascotte isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mascotte are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mascotte is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mascotte who work in office and administrative support (18.93%), sales jobs (9.19%), and teaching (5.97%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Mascotte 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. Mascotte has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mascotte than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mascotte may be for you.

One downside of living in Mascotte is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mascotte, the average commute to work is 31.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Mascotte doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Mascotte are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.66% of adults in Mascotte have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Mascotte in 2018 was $21,574, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,296 for a family of four. However, Mascotte contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mascotte is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mascotte home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mascotte residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mascotte also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mascotte include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Guyanese.

The most common language spoken in Mascotte 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 Mascotte, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% 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 Mascotte are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.3% 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, 34.4% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.5%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 57.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Mascotte, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (30.7%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 15.6% 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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