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. Umatilla has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Umatilla, where the median household income is $67,505.00.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Umatilla is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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. Being a small city, Umatilla does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Umatilla who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.78% of the adults in Umatilla have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.
