Ocoee is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 48,198 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Ocoee is the 72nd largest community in Florida.Ocoee is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ocoee is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocoee who work in office and administrative support (11.87%), sales jobs (11.24%), and management occupations (11.02%). Also of interest is that Ocoee has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.42% 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. One downside of living in Ocoee is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ocoee, the average commute to work is 32.81 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. The education level of Ocoee citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.91% of adults in Ocoee have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Ocoee in 2022 was $35,942, 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 $143,768 for a family of four. However, Ocoee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ocoee is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ocoee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ocoee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ocoee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.84% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocoee include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Haitian. In addition, Ocoee has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (22.89%). The most common language spoken in Ocoee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
