Fort Meade is a somewhat small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 5,270 people and three associated neighborhoods, Fort Meade is the 283rd largest community in Florida.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fort Meade is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.23% of the Fort Meade workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fort Meade is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Meade who work in office and administrative support (10.97%), sales jobs (8.61%), and food service (6.53%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.15% 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. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Fort Meade 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. Fort Meade has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fort Meade than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fort Meade may be for you. One downside of living in Fort Meade, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.71 minutes every day commuting to work. As is often the case in a small city, Fort Meade doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Fort Meade is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.18% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Fort Meade in 2022 was $25,351, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,404 for a family of four. However, Fort Meade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Meade is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Meade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Meade residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Meade also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.98% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Meade include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Fort Meade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
