Who lives in The Hammocks, Florida?
Florida · South · 60K residents · Suburban
Key signals
vs. national baselineHow The Hammocks compares
Where The Hammocks lands when every US city is ranked on the same behavioral measures, and the cities whose residents most closely mirror its habits, values, and personality.
National standings
17 measures · percentile vs. 865 US citiesClosest matches
similarity, 0–100Who they are
The Hammocks is a master-planned community of about 59,843 people in southwest Miami-Dade County, six miles west of Kendall, built across more than forty subdivisions wrapped around man-made lakes and palm-shaded streets. The loudest fact about who lives here is the Hispanic majority: roughly 62% of residents are Hispanic, more than three times the national rate, the South Florida texture you would expect from a Miami-Dade suburb where Cuban, Colombian, and other South American roots run deep.
That heritage shows up in two places the racial figure alone would miss. Catholicism is the plurality faith at about 45%, well above the roughly 27% national share, and married households run to around 58% against a national figure closer to 47%. The age curve sits almost exactly on the country, with a mean near 48, so this reads as a settled, family-anchored suburb rather than a young or aging one. People put down roots here and stay.
Gender split
vs. national baselineAge distribution
audience % · vs. national baselineHow they think
Personality in The Hammocks sits close to the national baseline across the board. Openness, extraversion, and agreeableness all land within a point of average, and conscientiousness barely edges it. The one axis that actually moves is the calm end: residents run a couple of points lower on emotional reactivity than the country, the steadiness of an established household base with a paid-down mortgage and grown routines rather than a population in flux.
Decision-making and risk appetite are both essentially average, with no tilt toward impulse or over-deliberation and a risk profile that mirrors the national spread. The takeaway is that nothing in this audience's temperament does the persuading for you. Where The Hammocks separates from the national picture is in heritage, faith, and household structure, not in how its residents are wired.
Decision psychology
audience % · vs. national baselineDecision speed
Risk tolerance
Personality fingerprint
Big Five (OCEAN) · 0–50–100 scaleAudience score on each Big Five axis. Dashed outline = national average.
Percentile position vs. 865 US cities. ● = this audience; center line = national median.
What they care about
Values here track the country closely, which is itself worth knowing. Environmental concern, ethical consumption, and trust in large corporations all sit within a few points of national, so this is not an audience that filters purchases through activism or treats big companies with unusual suspicion.
The one lean is toward local. A plurality, around 46%, holds at least a moderate preference for neighborhood and independent businesses, a few points above national, which fits a community organized around its own clubhouses, parks, and the largest homeowners' association in Miami-Dade. Loyalty here is geographic before it is ideological. A brand that shows up where these households already gather will travel further than one that leads with a cause.
Environmental priority
how much they prioritize sustainability when buying
Corporate skepticism
distrust of big-company motives and messaging
Local business preference
bias toward small/local over national chains
Ethical consumption
whether they actually act on ethical buying preferences
How to reach them
The social platform mix here mirrors the national spread, with Facebook the largest single channel at around 29% and Instagram next, the footprint of a family suburb where the over-35 share carries weight. No platform over-indexes hard enough to be a silver bullet, so reach comes from breadth rather than from betting on one feed.
Content format is similarly balanced across short video, mixed media, and long video, so the message matters more than the wrapper. The lever that does fit this audience is language and heritage: in a community this heavily Hispanic and this Catholic, Spanish-language and bicultural messaging is not a nice-to-have, it is how a brand signals it actually knows the neighborhood.
Where attention lives
social platformFormat mix
content formatHow they spend
Spending behavior in The Hammocks looks much like the country's. Purchase frequency, what motivates a purchase, and savings habits all sit within a few points of national, with price and quality driving most decisions the way they do nearly everywhere. There is no unusual splurge instinct or extreme thrift to design around.
Credit is the modest bright spot. Around 52% sit in the good-credit tier, a few points above national, the steady footing of a married, settled-suburb base carrying a mortgage and managing it on schedule. These are reliable rather than aggressive financial households, more comfortable with proven value than with leverage or speculation.
Purchase motivation
Purchase frequency
Savings behavior
How they live
Health in The Hammocks leans toward awareness more than action. About 44% describe themselves as aware of their health, several points above national, while the genuinely proactive end tells the sharper story: only around 7% take a proactive approach to care, roughly half the national share. These are households that know what they should be doing and engage the medical system when something is wrong rather than running ahead of it with screenings and preventive visits.
The same reserve shows in how they handle mental wellness. A quarter keep it strictly private, notably above the national rate, and the share who openly advocate for it runs well below average. For a family-centered, faith-anchored community, struggles tend to stay inside the household. Any wellness message that asks people to broadcast a private matter will meet resistance here.
Health consciousness
audience % · vs. national baselineMental wellness openness
audience % · vs. national baselineHow this profile was built
This profile draws on a population of 10M+ statistically modeled U.S. adults, calibrated against Census ACS data, BLS employment statistics, CDC BRFSS (N>400K), and peer-reviewed personality and consumer research. The traits most distinctive to The Hammocks, Florida (race ethnicity, healthcare style, and religion) are primarily derived from the peer-reviewed and federal sources listed below.
References
- 1.U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey — Demographic Tables (B01001, B15003, B19001, B23025, C24050)
- 2.Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics / Current Employment Statistics
- 3.Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024). Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- 4.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) (N=400,000)
- 5.Pew Research Center (2016). Technology Adoption by Baby Boomers (and Everybody Else) (N=1,520)
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