Center Hill is a tiny city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 957 people and just one neighborhood, Center Hill is the 437th largest community in Florida.
Center Hill is a blue-collar town, with 60.53% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Center Hill is a city of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Center Hill who work in maintenance occupations (7.89%), teaching (7.24%), and management occupations (6.36%).
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!) Center Hill 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. Center Hill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Center Hill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Center Hill may be for you.
One downside of living in Center Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Center Hill, the average commute to work is 31.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Center Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Center Hill has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.11% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Center Hill in 2022 was $21,600, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,400 for a family of four. However, Center Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Center Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Center Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Center Hill, accounting for 45.62% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Center Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Center Hill include Irish, English, German, Belizean, and Hungarian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Center Hill's cultural character, accounting for 27.55% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Center Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Center Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.4% 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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 14.5% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 6.8% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Center Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.5% 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, 36.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.3%).
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 Center Hill, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (21.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (6.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 10.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (26.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (14.5%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (7.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.