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White Springs, FL

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Overview


White Springs is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 746 people and just one neighborhood, White Springs is the 446th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

White Springs is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.36% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, White Springs is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in White Springs who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (21.49%), management occupations (19.42%), and office and administrative support (10.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of White Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.21% of adults in White Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in White Springs in 2018 was $19,145, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,580 for a family of four. However, White Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

White Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call White Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Springs residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in White Springs include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in White Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.3% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.2% 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 White Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (21.8%), and 20.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.7%).

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 White Springs, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.0%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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