Ocklawaha is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,508 people and five associated neighborhoods, Ocklawaha is the 406th largest community in Florida.When you are in Ocklawaha, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.80% of Ocklawaha’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ocklawaha is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocklawaha who work in office and administrative support (16.72%), maintenance occupations (8.99%), and management occupations (8.83%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.46% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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 town 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!) Ocklawaha 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. Ocklawaha has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ocklawaha than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ocklawaha may be for you. In Ocklawaha, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Ocklawaha does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Ocklawaha with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.26% of adults in Ocklawaha have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ocklawaha in 2022 was $24,066, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,264 for a family of four. Ocklawaha is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ocklawaha home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ocklawaha residents report their race to be White. Ocklawaha also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.13% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocklawaha include English, German, Irish, Hungarian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Ocklawaha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
