Bonifay is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,787 people and five associated neighborhoods, Bonifay is the 350th largest community in Florida.Bonifay is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bonifay is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bonifay who work in food service (20.50%), healthcare (15.69%), and legal occupations (8.93%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.67% 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. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bonifay has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bonifay has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bonifay than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bonifay may be for you. Being a small city, Bonifay does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Bonifay with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Bonifay in 2022 was $19,419, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,676 for a family of four. Bonifay also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.96% of its population below the federal poverty line.Bonifay is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bonifay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bonifay residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bonifay include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scandinavian. The most common language spoken in Bonifay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
