Melrose is a somewhat small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 7,013 people and just one neighborhood, Melrose is the 250th largest community in Florida.
When you are in Melrose, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.97% of Melrose’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Melrose is a town of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Melrose who work in teaching (9.61%), management occupations (8.64%), and office and administrative support (8.11%).
A relatively large number of people in Melrose telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.04% 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.
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, Melrose has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Melrose a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Melrose, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.90 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Melrose doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Melrose citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.10% of adults 25 and older in Melrose have a college degree.
The per capita income in Melrose in 2022 was $23,879, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,516 for a family of four. However, Melrose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Melrose is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Melrose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Melrose residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Melrose also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.20% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Melrose include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Melrose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Melrose, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 43.4% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.7% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Melrose are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.8% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
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 Melrose, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (5.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.