The Neighbors: Income
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 Buenaventura Lakes neighborhood in Kissimmee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower
than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty
line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.9%
of U.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 Buenaventura Lakes neighborhood, 36.3% 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
manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed.
Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations
(20.1%), and 19.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The Neighbors: Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities
and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods
with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries
will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun
to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly,
why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Buenaventura Lakes neighborhood in Kissimmee, FL, residents
most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (41.2%).
There are also a number of people of South American
ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Jamaican roots
(4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican
ancestry (4.4%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents
(3.8%), among others. In addition, 26.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were
born in another country.
The Neighbors: Languages
The most common language spoken in the Buenaventura Lakes
neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 62.7% of households. Some people also speak English (31.1%).