Wildwood is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 18,636 people and five associated neighborhoods, Wildwood is the 169th largest community in Florida. Wildwood has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Wildwood, where the median household income is $71,858.00. Wildwood home prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, but Wildwood real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.Wildwood is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.28% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wildwood is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wildwood who work in sales jobs (15.59%), business and financial occupations (12.48%), and office and administrative support (9.91%). Also of interest is that Wildwood has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.49% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Wildwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wildwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Wildwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Wildwood are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.05% of adults in Wildwood have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Wildwood in 2022 was $49,348, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $197,392 for a family of four. However, Wildwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wildwood is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wildwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wildwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wildwood include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Wildwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
