Virginia Gardens is a very small village located in the state of Florida. With a population of 2,260 people and just one neighborhood, Virginia Gardens is the 364th largest community in Florida.
Virginia Gardens home prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, but Virginia Gardens real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Unlike some villages, Virginia Gardens isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Virginia Gardens are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Virginia Gardens is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Virginia Gardens who work in sales jobs (18.66%), food service (9.95%), and office and administrative support (9.47%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.77% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
In terms of college education, Virginia Gardens is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.47% of adults in Virginia Gardens have a college degree.
The per capita income in Virginia Gardens in 2022 was $31,942, which is lower middle income relative to Florida, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,768 for a family of four. However, Virginia Gardens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Virginia Gardens is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Virginia Gardens home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Virginia Gardens, accounting for 81.61% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Virginia Gardens residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Virginia Gardens include German, African, English, Irish, and Italian.
In addition, Virginia Gardens has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (60.97%).
The most common language spoken in Virginia Gardens is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.0%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer. But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that the neighborhood is a fantastic option for bicycle commuters, as 3.2% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood stands out within Florida for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 5.4% of college-friendly places to live in FL.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more South American and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.9% of this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry and 36.9% have Cuban ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 73.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (61.0%) than are found in 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Virginia Gardens are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.0% 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, 39.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.6%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 73.7% of households. Some people also speak English (26.3%).
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 Virginia Gardens, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Cuban (36.9%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (30.9%), and residents who report Dominican roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.5%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 61.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (43.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.