Lehigh Acres, Florida

Lee County

12-39925

Lehigh Acres is a census -designated place (CDP ) in Lee County in the U.S. state of Florida with 86 784 inhabitants ( 2010).

Geography

Fort Myers is immediately adjacent to the west of Lehigh Acres. The CDP is crossed by the Florida State Road 82. Tampa and Miami are both approximately 200 km away.

History

Lehigh Acres was founded in 1954 on the basis of the Lucky Lee Ranch. First, there were mostly retirees, who settled here later, many families were middle-income, due to the employment opportunities in Fort Myers and surrounding it. Many German have acquired a second home in the last twenty years here. The settlement area was until recently one of the fastest growing communities in Florida. Due to the financial crisis and the weak dollar, housing prices fell by up to 50 % of its original value. There is a trend since 2008 for forced homework and thus considerable vacancy, which has led some of them already to vandalism and neglect. The inhabitants are now beginning to organize themselves into groups of citizens to oppose the further deterioration of their residence.

To get out of the low house price misery again, the local Chamber of Commerce will apply for Lehigh Acres city rights in order to obtain greater autonomy in planning anticipated new upswing.

Demographics

According to the 2010 census, the then 86 784 inhabitants distributed to 38,995 households. The population density was 353.1 inh. / Km ². 67.5 % of the population were white, 19.3% African American, 0.4% Native American and 1.2% Asian Americans. 8.4% were members of other ethnic groups and 3.3% in different ethnic groups. 34.3 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino.

In 2010, children under the age of 18 and 22.7 % of all households lived in 45.0 % of all households with persons at least 65 years. 75.4 % of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or a parent with offspring ). The average size of a household was 2.97 and the average family size is 3.33 people.

32.9 % of the population were younger than 20 years, 28.3 % were 20-39 years old, 24.1% were 40-59 years old and 14.7 % were at least 60 years old. The median age was 32 years. 49.2 % of the population were male and 50.8 % female.

The average annual income was $ 44,042, while 18.2 % of the population lived below the poverty line.

In 2000, English was the mother tongue of 84.52 % of the population spoke Spanish 11.81% and 3.67% had a different mother tongue.