Brandon is a larger medium-sized town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 114,626 people and 25 associated neighborhoods, Brandon is the 19th largest community in Florida.Brandon is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Brandon is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brandon who work in office and administrative support (14.20%), management occupations (10.30%), and sales jobs (9.79%). Also of interest is that Brandon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.95% 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. In terms of college education, Brandon is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.97% of adults in Brandon have a college degree. The per capita income in Brandon in 2022 was $36,952, 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 $147,808 for a family of four. However, Brandon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Brandon is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Brandon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brandon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Brandon also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brandon include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish. Brandon also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.53%. The most common language spoken in Brandon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
