Miami, FL (Little Havana Southeast)

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 Little Havana Southeast neighborhood in Miami are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.1% of U.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 Little Havana Southeast neighborhood, 41.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 37.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.2%), and 2.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Little Havana Southeast neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 88.9% of households. Some people also speak English (10.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Little Havana Southeast neighborhood in Miami, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Cuban (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (2.7%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 70.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Little Havana Southeast neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (57.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (31.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.