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.Ocklawaha is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ocklawaha is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocklawaha who work in office and administrative support (18.50%), management occupations (14.10%), and maintenance occupations (11.17%). 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. One downside of living in Ocklawaha is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ocklawaha, the average commute to work is 38.84 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Ocklawaha doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Ocklawaha is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.77% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Ocklawaha in 2022 was $23,631, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,524 for a family of four. Ocklawaha is a very 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, followed by Black or African-American. Ocklawaha also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.18% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocklawaha include English, Irish, Polish, German, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Ocklawaha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
