Leesburg is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 31,721 people and 15 associated neighborhoods, Leesburg is the 116th largest community in Florida.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Leesburg is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Leesburg is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Leesburg who work in food service (9.94%), sales jobs (9.73%), and management occupations (9.59%). Also of interest is that Leesburg 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: 9.37% 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. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Leesburg 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. Leesburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leesburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leesburg may be for you.The percentage of adults in Leesburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.29% of the adults in Leesburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Leesburg in 2022 was $27,835, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,340 for a family of four. However, Leesburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Leesburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leesburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leesburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Leesburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.25% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Leesburg include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Leesburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
