Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave median real estate price is $455,890, which is more expensive than 54.7% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 61.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave is currently $2,397, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 59.9% of Florida neighborhoods.
Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Homestead, Florida.
Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Real estate vacancies in Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave are 3.6%, which is lower than one will find in 76.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 89.1%, which is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
In addition, the real estate in the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 73.2% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 95.6% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave (23.8%) than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood has more Haitian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 1.9% have Yugoslav ancestry.
Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (45.5%) than are found in 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood in Homestead are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood, 36.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 15.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 59.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and French.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood in Homestead, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Cuban (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Haitian roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (8.5%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (8.3%), among others. In addition, 45.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Homestead Extension of Floridas Tpke / SW 162nd Ave neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (69.9%) 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 (23.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.