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Loughman, FL

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Overview


Loughman is a somewhat small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 5,417 people and just one neighborhood, Loughman is the 274th largest community in Florida. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Loughman, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Loughman, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Loughman’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Loughman does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $64,926.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Loughman is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loughman is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Loughman who work in management occupations (18.20%), food service (11.55%), and office and administrative support (8.66%).

Of important note, Loughman is also a town of artists. Loughman has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Loughman’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.70% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Loughman, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.59 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Loughman is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.05% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Loughman in 2022 was $32,343, which is lower middle income relative to Florida, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,372 for a family of four. However, Loughman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Loughman is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Loughman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Loughman, accounting for 45.02% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Loughman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Loughman include Polish, Irish, German, Italian, and English.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Loughman's cultural character, accounting for 16.54% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Loughman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 74.8% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 16.6% have Puerto Rican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Loughman are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% 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 55.9% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 37.5% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.6%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 62.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Portuguese and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Loughman, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (16.6%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.9%), among others. In addition, 19.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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