Mascotte is a somewhat small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 7,980 people and just one neighborhood, Mascotte is the 253rd largest community in Florida. Much of the housing stock in Mascotte was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Mascotte economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Mascotte, where the median household income is $64,896.00.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mascotte is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mascotte is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mascotte who work in office and administrative support (18.93%), sales jobs (9.19%), and teaching (5.97%).
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, Mascotte has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mascotte a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Mascotte is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mascotte, the average commute to work is 31.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Mascotte does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Mascotte rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.66% of adults 25 and older in Mascotte have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Mascotte in 2022 was $21,574, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,296 for a family of four. However, Mascotte contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mascotte is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mascotte home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mascotte residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mascotte also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mascotte include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Guyanese.
The most common language spoken in Mascotte is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Mascotte are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.3% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.5%), and 13.2% 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 57.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Mascotte, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (30.7%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 15.6% 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.