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 (15.23%), maintenance occupations (10.20%), and management occupations (8.19%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ocklawaha has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ocklawaha a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. 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 38.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Ocklawaha does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Ocklawaha is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.51% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Ocklawaha in 2022 was $21,894, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,576 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. Ocklawaha also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.74% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocklawaha include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Ocklawaha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
