Fruitland Park is a somewhat small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 8,711 people and three associated neighborhoods, Fruitland Park is the 227th largest community in Florida. Much of the housing stock in Fruitland Park was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Fruitland Park economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Fruitland Park, where the median household income is $70,167.00.Fruitland Park is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fruitland Park is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fruitland Park who work in office and administrative support (16.39%), sales jobs (12.31%), and management occupations (10.17%). Of important note, Fruitland Park is also a city of artists. Fruitland Park has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fruitland Park’s character. Also of interest is that Fruitland Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.47% 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. Being a small city, Fruitland Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Fruitland Park is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.39% of adults in Fruitland Park have a college degree. The per capita income in Fruitland Park in 2022 was $42,038, which is upper middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $168,152 for a family of four. However, Fruitland Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fruitland Park is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fruitland Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fruitland Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fruitland Park include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Fruitland Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
