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.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ocklawaha is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.80% of the Ocklawaha workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ocklawaha is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocklawaha who work in office and administrative support (16.72%), maintenance occupations (8.99%), and management occupations (8.83%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.46% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. 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. In Ocklawaha, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly 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 citizens of Ocklawaha are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.26% of adults in Ocklawaha have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Ocklawaha in 2022 was $24,066, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,264 for a family of four. Ocklawaha is a somewhat 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 16.13% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocklawaha include English, German, Irish, Hungarian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Ocklawaha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
