Cottondale is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 868 people and just one neighborhood, Cottondale is the 436th largest community in Florida.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cottondale is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cottondale is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottondale who work in sales jobs (16.34%), management occupations (12.19%), and food service (8.31%).
A relatively large number of people in Cottondale telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.76% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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!) Cottondale 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. Cottondale has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cottondale than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cottondale may be for you.
One downside of living in Cottondale, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.42 minutes every day commuting to work.
The population of Cottondale has a very low overall level of education: only 9.08% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Cottondale in 2022 was $23,730, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,920 for a family of four. However, Cottondale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cottondale is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottondale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottondale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cottondale include English, Canadian, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Cottondale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cottondale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 43 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 1.1% have Canadian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cottondale are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.7% 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 neighborhood, 34.9% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cottondale, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Haitian ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.