Mayo Florida Real Estate
Mayo Florida Real Estate
LIVING IN MAYO
Mayo is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,237 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Mayo is the 400th largest community in Florida.
Unlike some towns, Mayo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mayo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mayo is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mayo who work in maintenance occupations (11.95%), office and administrative support (11.50%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.85%).
Also of interest is that Mayo has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Mayo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mayo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The population of Mayo has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.79% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Mayo in 2010 was $18,524, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,096 for a family of four. However, Mayo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mayo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.12% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Mayo is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mayo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mayo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mayo also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.56% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mayo include German, Jamaican, English, and Scottish.
Mayo also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.64%.
The most common language spoken in Mayo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
Historical population | |||
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Census | Pop. | %± | |
1910 | 578 | — | |
1920 | 531 | −8.1% | |
1930 | 555 | 4.5% | |
1940 | 915 | 64.9% | |
1950 | 679 | −25.8% | |
1960 | 687 | 1.2% | |
1970 | 793 | 15.4% | |
1980 | 891 | 12.4% | |
1990 | 917 | 2.9% | |
2000 | 988 | 7.7% | |
2010 | 1,237 | 25.2% | |
Est. 2015 | 1,237 | [5] | 0.0% |