Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs median real estate price is $334,399, which is more expensive than 67.9% of the neighborhoods in Kansas and 42.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs is currently $2,271, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 86.7% of the neighborhoods in Kansas.
Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Overland Park, Kansas.
Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs 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.
In Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs, the current vacancy rate is 0.5%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 93.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, astoundingly, the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Overland Park neighborhood.
Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 91.8% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 27.9% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Did you know that the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood has more Croatian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 24.6% have English 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 Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood in Overland Park are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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 Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood, 50.9% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.4%), and 12.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.4%).
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 Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood in Overland Park, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (4.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 Oak Tree Meadows / Kimberly Downs neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.