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Pahokee, Florida

Pahokee is a city located on the shore of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 5,524 in the 2020 census.[7]

Pahokee, Florida
City of Pahokee
Nickname(s): 
Muck City (shared with nearby Belle Glade, Florida)
Location in Palm Beach County and the state of Florida
Coordinates: 26°49′29″N 80°39′35″W / 26.82472°N 80.65972°W / 26.82472; -80.65972
Country United States
State Florida
County Palm Beach
Incorporated1922[1]
Government
 • TypeCommission-Manager
 • MayorKeith W. Babb, Jr. (D)[2][3]
 • Vice MayorClara "Tasha" Murvin
 • CommissionersDerrick Boldin,
Juan Gonzalez, and
Sara Perez
 • City ManagerRodney D. Lucas
 • City ClerkTijauna L. Warner
Area
 • Total5.32 sq mi (13.77 km2)
 • Land5.32 sq mi (13.77 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation13 ft (4 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total5,524
 • Density1,039.32/sq mi (401.28/km2)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
33476
Area code(s)561, 728
FIPS code12-53800[6]
GNIS feature ID0288376[5]
Websitecityofpahokee.com/Pages/index
Royal Palms line the main thoroughfare through downtown Pahokee.

According to the 2020 U.S. Census, 57% of the residents of Pahokee were African American and 33% were Hispanic or Latino.[8] In 2018, the Mayor, Kenneth W. Babb, as well as the four members of the City Commission were all African American.[9]

History edit

Pahokee was incorporated in 1922.[1] The name "Pahokee" means "grassy waters" in the Creek language.[10] Local residents refer to Pahokee as "The Muck", which signifies the mineral-rich dark soil in which sugar cane, citrus fruits, and corn are grown by agribusinesses. In the 1930s, it was known as the "Winter Vegetable Capital of the World".[11]

The city was severely affected, as were the other communities to the south of the lake, by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane.[12] Hurricane Wilma, in 2005, destroyed a newly built marina.

Economy edit

Pahokee was founded on the produce grown in the muck, the fertile bottom of the Everglades after part of it was drained in the early 20th century. In 1939, the Federal Writers' Project guide said of Pahokee: "From Christmas until April, Pahokee is a 24-hour town; long trains of refrigerated cars roll out for northern markets day and night." "The streets are noisy and crowded; bars, restaurants and gambling places are never closed."[13]

In 1963, with access to Cuban sugar restricted, a sugar plant was built, and agriculture shifted to the mechanized crop of sugar cane. The plant closed in 2009.[11]

As a result, it is one of two Palm Beach County cities—the other is South Bay—on a list of 13 Florida municipalities in "a state of financial emergency."[when?] Records[which?] suggest it has been on the list continually since 1994. Unemployment exceeds 25%. Taxable property values dropped from about $99 million in 2007 to $66 million in 2014. A fifth of the population has migrated in the past 15 years. Dissolution of the city has been proposed.[14]

On November 15, 1996, the old Pahokee High School building, built in 1928, was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[15]

Everglades Regional Medical Center edit

Everglades Regional Medical Center, at 200 S. Barfield Highway was founded in 1936 as Everglades General Hospital; the current building opened in 1950. The 63-bed general hospital, financially nonviable, closed in 1998 after years of contention, a change from public to private ownership, and three lawsuits.[16]

Glades Health Care Center edit

Adjacent to the former hospital, at 230 S. Barfield Highway, is Glades Health Care Center, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, with about 70 full-time employees.[17]

Schools edit

Public edit

Pahokee belongs to the School District of Palm Beach County.

  • Pahokee Elementary School, 560 East Main Place (grades pre-K–5). Enrollment: 375 (2015). Pahokee Elementary School is an IB (International Baccalaureate) school. Enrollment is 63% black, 35% Hispanic, 1% white, 1% other. 96% are from low-income families.[18]
  • K. E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School, 37000 Main Street, Canal Point (grades K–5). Enrollment: 329. The racial makeup of the student body is 69% black, 29% Hispanic, 2% white. 99% of the students are from low-income families.[19]
  • Pahokee Middle–High School, 900 Larrimore Rd. (grades 6–12). Enrollment: 857 (2015). Enrollment is 68% black, 39% Hispanic, 2% white, 1% other. 93% are from low-income families.[20]
Pahokee High School is best known for its football program that consistently ranks among the state's best. Pahokee, together with nearby rival Belle Glade, with whom it competes each year in the "Muck Bowl", has "sent at least 60 players to the National Football League". "In Muck City, football is salvation, an escape from the likelihood of prison or early death."[21] "Football is the chief subject taught at Pahokee High," a town historian wrote in 1963.[11] In 2014 five former Blue Devils were in the NFL, the second most from any high school in the country.[11]

Public charter edit

  • Glades Academy, 7368 State Road 15 (grades K–8). Enrollment: 195 (2015). Enrollment is 72% black, 18% Hispanic, 9% white, 1% other. 97% are from low-income families.[22]

Private edit

  • Everglades Preparatory Academy, 380 East Main St. (grades 9–12). Enrollment: 106 (2016). (There is another, unrelated Everglades Preparatory Academy in Homestead, Florida.) Enrollment is 92% black, 6% Hispanic, 2% white. 90% are from low-income families.[23]
  • The Shepherd's School, 1800 Bacom Point Road, a Christian school (grades K–12). Enrollment: 71 (2016).
  • G.A.P Christian Academy, 183 S Lake Ave. (K–12 Education)

Miracle Village edit

Miracle Village, founded by a minister, offers a small residential community for registered sex offenders, who sometimes have great difficulty in finding housing, or are homeless (see Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony), because of Florida's strict regulations limiting where sex offenders can live. It is located about three miles east of Pahokee, on Muck City Road, in a former migrant worker facility, surrounded by sugar cane fields. This helps the offenders better integrate into society and not be a burden or commit further crimes in order to survive after serving their time mandated by the state and being released with little or no assistance from the Department of Corrections.

Pahokee in the media edit

On December 18, 2009, Damien Cave, Miami Bureau Chief of the New York Times, wrote an article describing Pahokee's economic plight and the town's hopes that a new marina project might help rejuvenate business.[24] There has been a significant move towards regeneration with the re-opening of the Pahokee Marina Tiki Bar and Restaurant, now known as 'Pahokee Mo's',[citation needed] and a new Dollar General store. In 2014, Governor Rick Scott pledged $1.3 million towards the restoration of Pahokee's infrastructure,[25] in addition to $200,000 pledged by Senator Abruzzo.[26]

Creative arts about Pahokee edit

Movies edit

Chasing Rabbits (2008) edit

A short by Aaron Kyle. Rabbit hunting as running training for would-be football players.[27] Famous Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden makes a cameo appearance. Days after its release, it was shown on ESPN,[28] and an Adidas commercial was made using footage from it.[29]

Murder of a Small Town (2015) edit

  • James Patterson asks "What the hell happened here?" in the PBS documentary Murder of a Small Town, which examines unemployment, crime, drugs and high school football.[30] The documentary deals with Belle Glade as well as Pahokee.[31]

The Send-Off (2016) edit

  • The Send-Off, a 12-minute short by Patrick Bresnan and Yvette Lucas, called an "intimate portrait" of Pahokee, was shown at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[30] "Emboldened by a giant block party on the evening of their high school prom, a group of students enter the night with the hope of transcending their rural town and the industrial landscape that surrounds them."[32] Along with others it was nominated for, it won three awards in 2016: the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize – Special Mention, Live Action Short at the American Film Institute's AFI Fest, and the Grand Jury Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival.[32]

The Rabbit Hunt (2017) edit

  • The Rabbit Hunt, another short by Patrick Bresnan and Yvette Lucas. It differs from Chasing Rabbits in its approach to the topic, although the action scenes are similar. The rabbits are driven out of the sugar cane fields by the harvesting machinery, or by smoky, slow-moving fires (humidity is high) deliberately set after harvest to clean up leaves and other waste. The emerging rabbits are killed with clubs, gutted, skinned, cooked, and eaten, or sold to others as meat. Rabbits are a food source for a very poor community; the atmosphere has been called "primitive". "In the Florida Everglades rabbit hunting is a rite of passage for young men, practiced since the early 1900s. The Rabbit Hunt follows a family as they hunt in the fields of an industrial sugar farm."[33] Everyone who appears in the film is African-American. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, and won the award of Outstanding Non-fiction Short in the Cinema Eye awards of the Museum of the Moving Image.[34]

Pahokee (2019) edit

  • Pahokee is a full-length (110 min.) feature from Bresnan and Lucas. It was shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The description of its content is: "In the rural town of Pahokee, four teenagers experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school. This tightly knit community in the Florida everglades struggles with financial insecurity and pin their hopes for the future on their graduating seniors."
    • The film was shown on PBS on February 16, 2021, in the series America ReFramed.[35]

Outta The Muck (2023) edit

  • Outta The Muck is a full-length (125 min.) feature from Ira McKinley, Bhawin Suchak, and Tracy Rector. The description of its content is: "Wade into the rich soil of Pahokee, Florida, a town on the banks of Lake Okeechobee. Beyond its football legacy, including sending over a dozen players to the NFL (like Anquan Boldin, Fred Taylor, and Rickey Jackson), the fiercely self-determined community tells their stories of Black achievement and resilience in the face of tragic storms and personal trauma."
    • The film was shown on PBS on February 6, 2023, in the series Independent Lens.[36]

Local media edit

Pahokee's most recent local newspaper was A Better Pahokee, a free digital e-newspaper, founded in 2013 by Jessie Tsang and Minister Freddie Lee Peterkin.[37] It ceased issuing new material in 2016.

Geography edit

 
The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail in Pahokee

Pahokee is located at 26°49′29″N 80°39′35″W / 26.82472°N 80.65972°W / 26.82472; -80.65972 (26.824717, –80.659660).[38]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14 km2), all land.

Demographics edit

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
19302,256
19404,766111.3%
19504,472−6.2%
19604,7095.3%
19705,66320.3%
19806,34612.1%
19906,8227.5%
20005,985−12.3%
20105,649−5.6%
20205,524−2.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[39]

2020 census edit

Pahokee racial composition
(Hispanics excluded from racial categories)
(NH = Non-Hispanic)[8]
Race Number Percentage
White (NH) 457 8.27%
Black or African American (NH) 3,136 56.77%
Native American or Alaska Native (NH) 2 0.04%
Asian (NH) 22 0.40%
Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian (NH) 1 0.02%
Some other race (NH) 10 0.18%
Two or more races/Multiracial (NH) 60 1.09%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,836 33.24%
Total 5,524

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,524 people, 1,718 households, and 1,227 families residing in the city.[40]

2010 census edit

Pahokee Demographics
2010 Census Pahokee Palm Beach County Florida
Total population 5,649 1,320,134 18,801,310
Population, percent change, 2000 to 2010 −5.6% +16.7% +17.6%
Population density 1,019.7/sq mi 670.2/sq mi 350.6/sq mi
White or Caucasian (including White Hispanic) 28.9% 73.5% 75.0%
(Non-Hispanic White or Caucasian) 9.7% 60.1% 57.9%
Black or African-American 55.4% 17.3% 16.0%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 33.8% 19.0% 22.5%
Asian 0.3% 2.4% 2.4%
Native American or Native Alaskan 0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
Two or more races (Multiracial) 0.6% 2.3% 2.5%
Some Other Race 0.1% 3.9% 3.6%

As of the 2010 United States census, there were 5,649 people, 1,749 households, and 1,219 families residing in the city.[41]

2000 census edit

As of the US census of 2000, there were 5,985 people, 1,710 households, and 1,328 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,109.4 inhabitants per square mile (428.3/km2). There were 1,936 housing units at an average density of 358.9 per square mile (138.6/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 25.21% White (13.6% Non-Hispanic White),[42] 56.06% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 15.20% from other races, and 2.92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 29.46% of the population.

As of 2000, there were 1,710 households, out of which 44.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.3% were married couples living together, 22.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.3% were non-families. 18.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.35 and the average family size was 3.79.

In 2000, in the city, 38.4% of the population were under the age of 18, 10.3% were aged 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.2 males.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $26,731, and the median income for a family was $26,265. Males had a median income of $28,859 versus $20,066 for females. The per capita income for the city was $10,346. About 29.4% of families and 32.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39.9% of those under age 18 and 32.0% of those age 65 or over.

In 2000, 72.78% of the population spoke only English at home, while those who spoke Spanish made up 26.65%, and those who spoke French Creole made up 0.56%.[43]

Notable people edit

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External links edit

  • City of Pahokee
  • "Pahokee" 2019 documentary

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For the 2019 documentary film see Pahokee film Pahokee is a city located on the shore of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County Florida United States It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida The population was 5 524 in the 2020 census 7 Pahokee FloridaCityCity of PahokeeFlagSealNickname s Muck City shared with nearby Belle Glade Florida Location in Palm Beach County and the state of FloridaCoordinates 26 49 29 N 80 39 35 W 26 82472 N 80 65972 W 26 82472 80 65972Country United StatesState FloridaCountyPalm BeachIncorporated1922 1 Government TypeCommission Manager MayorKeith W Babb Jr D 2 3 Vice MayorClara Tasha Murvin CommissionersDerrick Boldin Juan Gonzalez and Sara Perez City ManagerRodney D Lucas City ClerkTijauna L WarnerArea 4 Total5 32 sq mi 13 77 km2 Land5 32 sq mi 13 77 km2 Water0 00 sq mi 0 00 km2 Elevation 5 13 ft 4 m Population 2020 Total5 524 Density1 039 32 sq mi 401 28 km2 Time zoneUTC 5 Eastern EST Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP code33476Area code s 561 728FIPS code12 53800 6 GNIS feature ID0288376 5 Websitecityofpahokee wbr com wbr Pages wbr indexRoyal Palms line the main thoroughfare through downtown Pahokee According to the 2020 U S Census 57 of the residents of Pahokee were African American and 33 were Hispanic or Latino 8 In 2018 the Mayor Kenneth W Babb as well as the four members of the City Commission were all African American 9 Contents 1 History 2 Economy 2 1 Everglades Regional Medical Center 2 2 Glades Health Care Center 3 Schools 3 1 Public 3 2 Public charter 3 3 Private 4 Miracle Village 5 Pahokee in the media 6 Creative arts about Pahokee 6 1 Movies 6 1 1 Chasing Rabbits 2008 6 1 2 Murder of a Small Town 2015 6 1 3 The Send Off 2016 6 1 4 The Rabbit Hunt 2017 6 1 5 Pahokee 2019 6 1 6 Outta The Muck 2023 7 Local media 8 Geography 9 Demographics 9 1 2020 census 9 2 2010 census 9 3 2000 census 10 Notable people 11 References 12 External linksHistory editPahokee was incorporated in 1922 1 The name Pahokee means grassy waters in the Creek language 10 Local residents refer to Pahokee as The Muck which signifies the mineral rich dark soil in which sugar cane citrus fruits and corn are grown by agribusinesses In the 1930s it was known as the Winter Vegetable Capital of the World 11 The city was severely affected as were the other communities to the south of the lake by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane 12 Hurricane Wilma in 2005 destroyed a newly built marina Economy editPahokee was founded on the produce grown in the muck the fertile bottom of the Everglades after part of it was drained in the early 20th century In 1939 the Federal Writers Project guide said of Pahokee From Christmas until April Pahokee is a 24 hour town long trains of refrigerated cars roll out for northern markets day and night The streets are noisy and crowded bars restaurants and gambling places are never closed 13 In 1963 with access to Cuban sugar restricted a sugar plant was built and agriculture shifted to the mechanized crop of sugar cane The plant closed in 2009 11 As a result it is one of two Palm Beach County cities the other is South Bay on a list of 13 Florida municipalities in a state of financial emergency when Records which suggest it has been on the list continually since 1994 Unemployment exceeds 25 Taxable property values dropped from about 99 million in 2007 to 66 million in 2014 A fifth of the population has migrated in the past 15 years Dissolution of the city has been proposed 14 On November 15 1996 the old Pahokee High School building built in 1928 was added to the U S National Register of Historic Places 15 Everglades Regional Medical Center edit Everglades Regional Medical Center at 200 S Barfield Highway was founded in 1936 as Everglades General Hospital the current building opened in 1950 The 63 bed general hospital financially nonviable closed in 1998 after years of contention a change from public to private ownership and three lawsuits 16 Glades Health Care Center edit Adjacent to the former hospital at 230 S Barfield Highway is Glades Health Care Center a 120 bed skilled nursing facility with about 70 full time employees 17 Schools editPublic edit Pahokee belongs to the School District of Palm Beach County Pahokee Elementary School 560 East Main Place grades pre K 5 Enrollment 375 2015 Pahokee Elementary School is an IB International Baccalaureate school Enrollment is 63 black 35 Hispanic 1 white 1 other 96 are from low income families 18 K E Cunningham Canal Point Elementary School 37000 Main Street Canal Point grades K 5 Enrollment 329 The racial makeup of the student body is 69 black 29 Hispanic 2 white 99 of the students are from low income families 19 Pahokee Middle High School 900 Larrimore Rd grades 6 12 Enrollment 857 2015 Enrollment is 68 black 39 Hispanic 2 white 1 other 93 are from low income families 20 Pahokee High School is best known for its football program that consistently ranks among the state s best Pahokee together with nearby rival Belle Glade with whom it competes each year in the Muck Bowl has sent at least 60 players to the National Football League In Muck City football is salvation an escape from the likelihood of prison or early death 21 Football is the chief subject taught at Pahokee High a town historian wrote in 1963 11 In 2014 five former Blue Devils were in the NFL the second most from any high school in the country 11 Public charter edit Glades Academy 7368 State Road 15 grades K 8 Enrollment 195 2015 Enrollment is 72 black 18 Hispanic 9 white 1 other 97 are from low income families 22 Private edit Everglades Preparatory Academy 380 East Main St grades 9 12 Enrollment 106 2016 There is another unrelated Everglades Preparatory Academy in Homestead Florida Enrollment is 92 black 6 Hispanic 2 white 90 are from low income families 23 The Shepherd s School 1800 Bacom Point Road a Christian school grades K 12 Enrollment 71 2016 G A P Christian Academy 183 S Lake Ave K 12 Education Miracle Village editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed November 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Miracle Village founded by a minister offers a small residential community for registered sex offenders who sometimes have great difficulty in finding housing or are homeless see Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony because of Florida s strict regulations limiting where sex offenders can live It is located about three miles east of Pahokee on Muck City Road in a former migrant worker facility surrounded by sugar cane fields This helps the offenders better integrate into society and not be a burden or commit further crimes in order to survive after serving their time mandated by the state and being released with little or no assistance from the Department of Corrections Pahokee in the media editOn December 18 2009 Damien Cave Miami Bureau Chief of the New York Times wrote an article describing Pahokee s economic plight and the town s hopes that a new marina project might help rejuvenate business 24 There has been a significant move towards regeneration with the re opening of the Pahokee Marina Tiki Bar and Restaurant now known as Pahokee Mo s citation needed and a new Dollar General store In 2014 Governor Rick Scott pledged 1 3 million towards the restoration of Pahokee s infrastructure 25 in addition to 200 000 pledged by Senator Abruzzo 26 Creative arts about Pahokee editMovies edit Chasing Rabbits 2008 edit A short by Aaron Kyle Rabbit hunting as running training for would be football players 27 Famous Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden makes a cameo appearance Days after its release it was shown on ESPN 28 and an Adidas commercial was made using footage from it 29 Murder of a Small Town 2015 edit James Patterson asks What the hell happened here in the PBS documentary Murder of a Small Town which examines unemployment crime drugs and high school football 30 The documentary deals with Belle Glade as well as Pahokee 31 The Send Off 2016 edit The Send Off a 12 minute short by Patrick Bresnan and Yvette Lucas called an intimate portrait of Pahokee was shown at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival 30 Emboldened by a giant block party on the evening of their high school prom a group of students enter the night with the hope of transcending their rural town and the industrial landscape that surrounds them 32 Along with others it was nominated for it won three awards in 2016 the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short at the San Francisco International Film Festival the Grand Jury Prize Special Mention Live Action Short at the American Film Institute s AFI Fest and the Grand Jury Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival 32 The Rabbit Hunt 2017 edit The Rabbit Hunt another short by Patrick Bresnan and Yvette Lucas It differs from Chasing Rabbits in its approach to the topic although the action scenes are similar The rabbits are driven out of the sugar cane fields by the harvesting machinery or by smoky slow moving fires humidity is high deliberately set after harvest to clean up leaves and other waste The emerging rabbits are killed with clubs gutted skinned cooked and eaten or sold to others as meat Rabbits are a food source for a very poor community the atmosphere has been called primitive In the Florida Everglades rabbit hunting is a rite of passage for young men practiced since the early 1900s The Rabbit Hunt follows a family as they hunt in the fields of an industrial sugar farm 33 Everyone who appears in the film is African American It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 and won the award of Outstanding Non fiction Short in the Cinema Eye awards of the Museum of the Moving Image 34 Pahokee 2019 edit Pahokee is a full length 110 min feature from Bresnan and Lucas It was shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival The description of its content is In the rural town of Pahokee four teenagers experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school This tightly knit community in the Florida everglades struggles with financial insecurity and pin their hopes for the future on their graduating seniors The film was shown on PBS on February 16 2021 in the series America ReFramed 35 Outta The Muck 2023 edit Outta The Muck is a full length 125 min feature from Ira McKinley Bhawin Suchak and Tracy Rector The description of its content is Wade into the rich soil of Pahokee Florida a town on the banks of Lake Okeechobee Beyond its football legacy including sending over a dozen players to the NFL like Anquan Boldin Fred Taylor and Rickey Jackson the fiercely self determined community tells their stories of Black achievement and resilience in the face of tragic storms and personal trauma The film was shown on PBS on February 6 2023 in the series Independent Lens 36 Local media editPahokee s most recent local newspaper was A Better Pahokee a free digital e newspaper founded in 2013 by Jessie Tsang and Minister Freddie Lee Peterkin 37 It ceased issuing new material in 2016 Geography edit nbsp The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail in PahokeePahokee is located at 26 49 29 N 80 39 35 W 26 82472 N 80 65972 W 26 82472 80 65972 26 824717 80 659660 38 According to the United States Census Bureau the city has a total area of 5 4 square miles 14 km2 all land Demographics editHistorical population CensusPop Note 19302 256 19404 766111 3 19504 472 6 2 19604 7095 3 19705 66320 3 19806 34612 1 19906 8227 5 20005 985 12 3 20105 649 5 6 20205 524 2 2 U S Decennial Census 39 2020 census edit Pahokee racial composition Hispanics excluded from racial categories NH Non Hispanic 8 Race Number PercentageWhite NH 457 8 27 Black or African American NH 3 136 56 77 Native American or Alaska Native NH 2 0 04 Asian NH 22 0 40 Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian NH 1 0 02 Some other race NH 10 0 18 Two or more races Multiracial NH 60 1 09 Hispanic or Latino any race 1 836 33 24 Total 5 524As of the 2020 United States census there were 5 524 people 1 718 households and 1 227 families residing in the city 40 2010 census edit Pahokee Demographics2010 Census Pahokee Palm Beach County FloridaTotal population 5 649 1 320 134 18 801 310Population percent change 2000 to 2010 5 6 16 7 17 6 Population density 1 019 7 sq mi 670 2 sq mi 350 6 sq miWhite or Caucasian including White Hispanic 28 9 73 5 75 0 Non Hispanic White or Caucasian 9 7 60 1 57 9 Black or African American 55 4 17 3 16 0 Hispanic or Latino of any race 33 8 19 0 22 5 Asian 0 3 2 4 2 4 Native American or Native Alaskan 0 1 0 5 0 4 Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian 0 0 0 1 0 1 Two or more races Multiracial 0 6 2 3 2 5 Some Other Race 0 1 3 9 3 6 As of the 2010 United States census there were 5 649 people 1 749 households and 1 219 families residing in the city 41 2000 census edit As of the US census of 2000 there were 5 985 people 1 710 households and 1 328 families residing in the city The population density was 1 109 4 inhabitants per square mile 428 3 km2 There were 1 936 housing units at an average density of 358 9 per square mile 138 6 km2 The racial makeup of the city was 25 21 White 13 6 Non Hispanic White 42 56 06 African American 0 10 Native American 0 50 Asian 15 20 from other races and 2 92 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 29 46 of the population As of 2000 there were 1 710 households out of which 44 0 had children under the age of 18 living with them 46 3 were married couples living together 22 8 had a female householder with no husband present and 22 3 were non families 18 8 of all households were made up of individuals and 6 4 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 3 35 and the average family size was 3 79 In 2000 in the city 38 4 of the population were under the age of 18 10 3 were aged 18 to 24 25 0 from 25 to 44 18 1 from 45 to 64 and 8 2 were 65 years of age or older The median age was 26 years For every 100 females there were 104 2 males For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 100 2 males In 2000 the median income for a household in the city was 26 731 and the median income for a family was 26 265 Males had a median income of 28 859 versus 20 066 for females The per capita income for the city was 10 346 About 29 4 of families and 32 0 of the population were below the poverty line including 39 9 of those under age 18 and 32 0 of those age 65 or over In 2000 72 78 of the population spoke only English at home while those who spoke Spanish made up 26 65 and those who spoke French Creole made up 0 56 43 Notable people editReidel Anthony NFL wide receiver 1996 Florida Gators football team Tampa Bay Buccaneers 44 Bill Bentley NFL cornerback Louisiana Lafayette Detroit Lions 45 Anquan Boldin NFL wide receiver Florida State University Baltimore Ravens 46 Kevin Bouie NFL running back Mississippi State University 47 Zabian Dowdell basketball player for Phoenix Suns 48 Rickey Jackson NFL linebacker New Orleans Saints and San Francisco 49ers NFL Hall Of Fame 49 Janoris Jenkins NFL cornerback St Louis Rams New York Giants New Orleans Saints 50 Jorge Labarga Florida Supreme Court Justice 51 Pernell McPhee linebacker Baltimore Ravens Eric Moore NFL Defensive end New England Patriots 52 Freddie Lee Peterkin minister soul and gospel singer and actor 53 Alphonso Smith NFL cornerback Detroit Lions 54 Antone Smith NFL running back Florida State and Atlanta Falcons 55 Vincent Smith running back University of Michigan Fred Taylor NFL running back Jacksonville Jaguars 56 Mel Tillis country musician born in Tampa raised in Pahokee 57 Andre Waters defensive back Philadelphia Eagles 58 Riquna Williams basketball player University of Miami and WNBA s Los Angeles Sparks 59 References edit a b Eliot Kleinberg September 16 1987 What s in a name Lots of history if it s a town The Palm Beach Post p 7D Archived from the original on December 9 2019 Retrieved March 9 2021 via Newspapers com 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