Lee is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 384 people and just one neighborhood, Lee is the 474th largest community in Florida.
When you are in Lee, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.30% of Lee’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lee is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lee who work in office and administrative support (24.93%), farm management occupations (6.30%), and sales jobs (4.30%).
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!) Lee 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. Lee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lee may be for you.
Lee is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Lee ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.77% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lee in 2022 was $17,430, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,720 for a family of four. However, Lee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.47% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Lee is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lee residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Lee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.21% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lee include Italian, German, Irish, English, and French.
In addition, Lee has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.67%).
The most common language spoken in Lee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 43.6% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Furthermore, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.0% of American neighborhoods.
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 Lee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.0% of U.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, 41.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.6%), and 11.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.0%).
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 Lee, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (20.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.