Lake Havasu City Northwest median real estate price is $359,315, which is less expensive than 66.6% of Arizona neighborhoods and 51.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Lake Havasu City Northwest is currently $1,590, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 83.0% of Arizona neighborhoods.
Lake Havasu City Northwest is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Lake Havasu City Northwest real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Lake Havasu City Northwest 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.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Lake Havasu City Northwest. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 15.9%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 81.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (9.5%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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.
There are more people living in the Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (42.2%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 76.0% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
The Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (55.3%) than found in 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood has more French and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.7% have Portuguese 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 Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood in Lake Havasu City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.9% 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 Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood, 57.8% 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 15.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.9%), and 11.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (18.9%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood in Lake Havasu City, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (31.7%), and residents who report French roots (27.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.0%), among others.
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 Lake Havasu City Northwest neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (76.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (52.9%) 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 (18.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.