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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Prentiss / Spring Branch median real estate price is $112,330, which is less expensive than 92.7% of Georgia neighborhoods and 93.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Prentiss / Spring Branch is currently $1,169, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.3% of Georgia neighborhoods.

Prentiss / Spring Branch is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Baxley, Georgia.

Prentiss / Spring Branch real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Prentiss / Spring Branch has a 12.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 71.0% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Of particular note, 12.5% of the people in the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.8% of the adult residents in the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Also, the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Occupations

The Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.0% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry.

Prentiss / Spring Branch is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood in Baxley are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood, 30.3% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.0%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood in Baxley, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Jamaican (3.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.4%), and residents who report German roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Prentiss / Spring Branch neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (20.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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