Tavares is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 22,007 people and six associated neighborhoods, Tavares is the 150th largest community in Florida. Tavares has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Tavares, where the median household income is $57,644.00.Tavares is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tavares is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tavares who work in office and administrative support (12.13%), healthcare (11.67%), and food service (8.68%). Also of interest is that Tavares has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The overall crime rate in Tavares is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. Being a small city, Tavares does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Tavares are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.80% of adults in Tavares having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Tavares in 2022 was $37,707, 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 $150,828 for a family of four. However, Tavares contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tavares is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tavares home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tavares residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tavares also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.89% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tavares include English, German, Irish, Italian, and European. The most common language spoken in Tavares is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
