The town 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, Ocklawaha has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ocklawaha a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Ocklawaha is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ocklawaha, the average commute to work is 38.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Ocklawaha does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Ocklawaha is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.51% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ocklawaha in 2022 was $21,894, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,576 for a family of four.
Ocklawaha is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ocklawaha home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ocklawaha residents report their race to be White. Ocklawaha also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.74% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocklawaha include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ocklawaha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
