Lake Hamilton is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,643 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Hamilton is the 404th largest community in Florida.
Lake Hamilton is a blue-collar town, with 37.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lake Hamilton is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Hamilton who work in sales jobs (11.44%), office and administrative support (11.13%), and management occupations (9.74%).
Of important note, Lake Hamilton is also a town of artists. Lake Hamilton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lake Hamilton’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.74% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Lake Hamilton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lake Hamilton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Lake Hamilton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Lake Hamilton has a very low overall level of education: only 9.96% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Lake Hamilton in 2022 was $20,297, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,188 for a family of four. However, Lake Hamilton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lake Hamilton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lake Hamilton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Hamilton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Lake Hamilton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Hamilton include German, English, Swedish, Scots-Irish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lake Hamilton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
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 Lake Hamilton, 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 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 47.1% 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.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 36.2% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 9.7% have Puerto Rican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lake Hamilton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.7% 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, 29.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic and Italian.
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 Lake Hamilton, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (9.7%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.1%), among others. In addition, 10.2% 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 (48.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.