Loxahatchee Groves is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 3,424 people and just one neighborhood, Loxahatchee Groves is the 324th largest community in Florida.
Loxahatchee Groves home prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, but Loxahatchee Groves real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Unlike some towns, Loxahatchee Groves isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Loxahatchee Groves are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loxahatchee Groves is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loxahatchee Groves who work in office and administrative support (18.23%), management occupations (14.35%), and healthcare (7.15%).
Also of interest is that Loxahatchee Groves 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: 14.19% 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 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!) Loxahatchee Groves 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. Loxahatchee Groves has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Loxahatchee Groves than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Loxahatchee Groves may be for you.
In Loxahatchee Groves, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Loxahatchee Groves who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.87% of adults in Loxahatchee Groves have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Loxahatchee Groves in 2022 was $51,130, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $204,520 for a family of four.
Loxahatchee Groves is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Loxahatchee Groves home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loxahatchee Groves residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Loxahatchee Groves also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.23% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Loxahatchee Groves include German, Italian, Irish, Dutch, and English.
In addition, Loxahatchee Groves has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.18%).
The most common language spoken in Loxahatchee Groves is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 6.2% have Dominican ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Loxahatchee Groves are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.3%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.9%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Loxahatchee Groves, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (8.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.6%), among others. In addition, 22.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (71.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.