Ocoee is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 201 people and just one neighborhood, Ocoee is the 378th largest community in Tennessee.
When you are in Ocoee, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.08% of Ocoee’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ocoee is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocoee who work in healthcare (24.62%), office and administrative support (12.31%), and maintenance occupations (10.00%).
The overall crime rate in Ocoee 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.
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, Ocoee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ocoee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
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 32.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Ocoee is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Ocoee isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Ocoee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Ocoee citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.09% of adults in Ocoee have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Ocoee in 2022 was $53,174, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $212,696 for a family of four. However, Ocoee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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. Important ancestries of people in Ocoee include German, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Ocoee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ocoee, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.6% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ocoee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.7% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Ocoee, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report English roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.