Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods median real estate price is $520,861, which is more expensive than 39.6% of the neighborhoods in Colorado and 68.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods is currently $2,371, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 57.0% of Colorado neighborhoods.
Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods, the current vacancy rate is 1.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Colorado Springs, the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With 1.9% of employed workers living in the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 96.2% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Did you know that the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood has more English and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.7% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 1.0% have Canadian ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood in Colorado Springs are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood, 53.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.5%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood in Colorado Springs, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report German roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Pleasant Valley / Garden Of The Gods neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (66.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.