Ocoee is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 49,261 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Ocoee is the 72nd largest community in Florida. Much of the housing stock in Ocoee was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Ocoee economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Ocoee, where the median household income is $93,292.00.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ocoee is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ocoee is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocoee who work in management occupations (11.04%), office and administrative support (10.75%), and sales jobs (9.75%). Also of interest is that Ocoee 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: 13.84% 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. In Ocoee, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.92 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. In terms of college education, Ocoee is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.52% of adults in Ocoee have a college degree. The per capita income in Ocoee in 2022 was $38,354, which is middle income relative to Florida, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,416 for a family of four. However, Ocoee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ocoee is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ocoee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ocoee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ocoee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.95% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocoee include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Haitian. Foreign born people are also an important part of Ocoee's cultural character, accounting for 22.57% of the city’s population. The most common language spoken in Ocoee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
