Chattahoochee is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,970 people and just one neighborhood, Chattahoochee is the 344th largest community in Florida.
Chattahoochee is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.49% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Chattahoochee is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chattahoochee who work in healthcare suport services (15.56%), office and administrative support (14.29%), and maintenance occupations (10.95%).
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, Chattahoochee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chattahoochee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Chattahoochee, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.33 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The population of Chattahoochee has a very low overall level of education: only 9.40% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Chattahoochee in 2022 was $16,330, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,320 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 48.18% 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 English, Irish, African, Dutch, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Chattahoochee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the neighborhood.
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 12.8% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 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 88.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.1% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (25.0%), and 12.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.8%).
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 Chattahoochee, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.7%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (90.5%) 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 (6.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.