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Chattahoochee, FL

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Overview


Chattahoochee is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,984 people and just one neighborhood, Chattahoochee is the 344th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Chattahoochee is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 94.93% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Chattahoochee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Chattahoochee who work in maintenance occupations (17.40%), office and administrative support (16.89%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.47%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Chattahoochee is worth considering.

One downside of living in Chattahoochee, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.42 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In Chattahoochee, just 8.21% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Chattahoochee in 2022 was $14,700, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $58,800 for a family of four. However, Chattahoochee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chattahoochee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 51.62% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Chattahoochee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the neighborhood.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Furthermore, the government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 13.6% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 2.7% have Cuban ancestry.

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 Chattahoochee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.0% 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, 38.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.7%), and 13.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Chattahoochee, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.7%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (38.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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