Sun City Center is a medium-sized town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 30,952 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Sun City Center is the 103rd largest community in Florida.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Sun City Center is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sun City Center is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sun City Center who work in management occupations (13.42%), office and administrative support (11.37%), and business and financial occupations (10.58%).
Also of interest is that Sun City Center has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Sun City Center telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.52% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Sun City Center is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sun City Center, the average commute to work is 33.45 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The population of Sun City Center is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.10% of adults in Sun City Center have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sun City Center in 2018 was $38,492, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,968 for a family of four. However, Sun City Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sun City Center is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sun City Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sun City Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sun City Center include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Sun City Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.