Umatilla is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 3,828 people and four associated neighborhoods, Umatilla is the 314th largest community in Florida. Much of the housing stock in Umatilla was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Umatilla economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Umatilla, where the median household income is $67,505.00.Umatilla is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Umatilla is a city of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Umatilla who work in management occupations (12.43%), sales jobs (11.31%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.80%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.43% 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!) Umatilla 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. Umatilla has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Umatilla than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Umatilla may be for you. One downside of living in Umatilla, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.66 minutes every day commuting to work. Umatilla is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The education level of Umatilla citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.78% of adults 25 and older in Umatilla have a college degree. The per capita income in Umatilla in 2022 was $37,882, which is middle income relative to Florida, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,528 for a family of four. However, Umatilla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Umatilla home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Umatilla residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Umatilla include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Umatilla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
