THE NEIGHBORS: INCOME
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 Shindler Dr / Hipps Rd neighborhood in Jacksonville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.9% 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 69.2% of America's neighborhoods.
THE NEIGHBORS: OCCUPATIONS
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 Shindler Dr / Hipps Rd neighborhood, 29.6% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.1%), and 20.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
THE NEIGHBORS: ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY
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 Shindler Dr / Hipps Rd neighborhood in Jacksonville, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report French roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
THE NEIGHBORS: LANGUAGES
The most common language spoken in the Shindler Dr / Hipps Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.8%).