DeFuniak Springs is a somewhat small coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 6,535 people and eight associated neighborhoods, DeFuniak Springs is the 268th largest community in Florida.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, DeFuniak Springs is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, DeFuniak Springs is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in DeFuniak Springs who work in maintenance occupations (13.29%), sales jobs (11.42%), and office and administrative support (10.43%). Of important note, DeFuniak Springs is also a city of artists. DeFuniak Springs has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape DeFuniak Springs’s character. A relatively large number of people in DeFuniak Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.90% 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 city 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!) DeFuniak Springs 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. DeFuniak Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in DeFuniak Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, DeFuniak Springs may be for you. DeFuniak Springs is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. Being a small city, DeFuniak Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of DeFuniak Springs rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.06% of adults 25 and older in DeFuniak Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in DeFuniak Springs in 2022 was $27,193, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,772 for a family of four. However, DeFuniak Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. DeFuniak Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call DeFuniak Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of DeFuniak Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in DeFuniak Springs include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in DeFuniak Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
