Ponce de Leon is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 508 people and three associated neighborhoods, Ponce de Leon is the 464th largest community in Florida.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ponce de Leon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.43% of the Ponce de Leon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ponce de Leon is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ponce de Leon who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (10.62%), personal care services (10.03%), and sales jobs (8.85%). 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!) Ponce de Leon 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. Ponce de Leon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ponce de Leon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ponce de Leon may be for you. One downside of living in Ponce de Leon is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ponce de Leon, the average commute to work is 33.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Ponce de Leon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of adults in Ponce de Leon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.29% of the adults in Ponce de Leon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ponce de Leon in 2022 was $23,302, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,208 for a family of four. However, Ponce de Leon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Ponce de Leon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ponce de Leon residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ponce de Leon include German, English, Irish, Scandinavian, and Eastern European. The most common language spoken in Ponce de Leon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
