Because of many things, Sorrento is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sorrento really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sorrento perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sorrento has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sorrento has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sorrento than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sorrento may be for you.
Sorrento is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Sorrento 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: 29.05% of adults in Sorrento have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sorrento in 2022 was $50,749, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $202,996 for a family of four. However, Sorrento contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sorrento home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sorrento residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sorrento include Irish, Italian, English, German, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Sorrento is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
