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Laurel Hill, FL

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Overview


Laurel Hill is a tiny city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 608 people and just one neighborhood, Laurel Hill is the 458th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Laurel Hill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Laurel Hill is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Laurel Hill who work in office and administrative support (20.73%), food service (9.15%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.54%).

There are many members of the armed forces living in Laurel Hill. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.

Setting & Lifestyle

Laurel Hill’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Laurel Hill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Laurel Hill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Laurel Hill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The population of Laurel Hill has a very low overall level of education: only 7.05% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Laurel Hill in 2022 was $34,044, which is middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,176 for a family of four. However, Laurel Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Laurel Hill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Laurel Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Laurel Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Laurel Hill include Irish, English, German, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Laurel Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Russian.

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.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Florida. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Laurel Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.2% of America'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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.8%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Laurel Hill, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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