Immokalee, Florida Immokalee, Florida Location in Collier County and the state of Florida Location in Collier County and the state of Florida Immokalee is an unincorporated region and a census-designated place (CDP) in Collier County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 24,154 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Naples Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Immokalee region is heavily agricultural.
Immokalee is positioned in northern Collier County along Florida State Road 29.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 23.3 square miles (60.3 km2), of which 22.7 square miles (58.8 km2) is territory and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 2.42%, is water. In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 34.9% under the age of 18, 15.7% from 18 to 24, 31.2% from 25 to 44, 14.1% from 45 to 64, and 4.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $24,315, and the median income for a family was $22,628.
About 34.6% of families and 39.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 46.1% of those under age 18 and 26.9% of those age 65 or over.
Immokalee Airport is a public-use airport positioned 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of the central company district.
Collier Area Transit provides the small-town bus service and paratransit. The #5 joins to Naples, the #7 joins to Marco Island (limited trips), and the 8 - A circulates inside the area.
Immokalee used to be served by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (formerly Atlantic Coast Line) which ran a branchline from Palmdale through Immokalee to Everglades City.
The rail line was cut back to Sunniland south of Immokalee in the 1950s and then abandoned to the mainline at Palmdale in the 1980s.
The chief road through Immokalee is State Road 29.
Being unincorporated, the region has no municipal government of its own and is governed by Collier County, Florida.
Immokalee is the center of the region's agriculture trade and home to many immigrant and migrant families who work the vast fields which produce a large amount of the United States' fresh produce.
Immokalee's enhance schools are directed by the District School Board of Collier County.
Elementary schools in Immokalee and serving Immokalee include Eden Park, Highlands, Lake Trafford, and Village Oaks.
Pinecrest Elementary School, positioned outside of and adjoining to the CDP, serves a portion of the CDP.
All inhabitants are zoned to Immokalee Middle School and Immokalee High School, both positioned in the CDP. The federally recognized Seminole Tribe of Florida has one of its six reservations here, Immokalee, on which it operates one of its gaming casinos.
Immokalee is home to WCIW-LP, a low power improve airways broadcast owned and directed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
Albert Bentley, played football at Immokalee High School and went on to play for the Miami Hurricanes and the Indianapolis Colts Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a grassroots improve and workers' organization in the area.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Immokalee CDP, Florida".
District School Board of Collier County.
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