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Lake Park, FL

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Overview


Lake Park is a somewhat small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 8,981 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Park is the 221st largest community in Florida.

Housing costs in Lake Park are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Lake Park isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lake Park are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Park is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Park who work in food service (12.09%), healthcare suport services (10.75%), and office and administrative support (9.79%).

Also of interest is that Lake Park 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: 7.75% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Lake Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Lake Park citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.30% of adults in Lake Park have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lake Park in 2022 was $28,920, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,680 for a family of four. However, Lake Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lake Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lake Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Park residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Lake Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.29% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Park include Haitian, Jamaican, German, English, and Irish.

In addition, Lake Park has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (27.87%).

The most common language spoken in Lake Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include French Creole and French.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 6.9% have Jamaican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 19.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 Lake Park are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 26.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.2%), and 23.9% 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 71.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lake Park, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (18.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (5.7%), among others. In addition, 27.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (51.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (11.5%) . 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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