Penney Farms is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 830 people and just one neighborhood, Penney Farms is the 440th largest community in Florida.
Unlike some towns, Penney Farms isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Penney Farms are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Penney Farms is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Penney Farms who work in sales jobs (44.29%), computer science and math (24.29%), and business and financial occupations (10.00%).
Also of interest is that Penney Farms has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 47.62% 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.
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, Penney Farms has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Penney Farms a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Penney Farms, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 47.50 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Penney Farms does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Penney Farms, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Penney Farms is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 50.95% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Penney Farms in 2018 was $29,585, which is middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,340 for a family of four. However, Penney Farms contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Penney Farms home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Penney Farms residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Penney Farms include English, German, Irish, Romanian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Penney Farms is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Penney Farms, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 11.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 25.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 5.8% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Florida, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Florida.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 47.8% 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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (21.8%) than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 5.3% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Penney Farms are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.9% 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, 31.0% 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 20.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.6%), and 17.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.2%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Penney Farms, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (57.4%) 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 (21.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.