Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate median real estate price is $866,715, which is more expensive than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in Arizona and 76.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate is currently $2,784, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 68.3% of the neighborhoods in Arizona.
Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Tucson, Arizona.
Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate 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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 31.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (16.1%). 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.
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 Tucson, the Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In the Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 35.2% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.
Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate 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, 90.1% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.3%, which is higher than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The rate of college educated adults in the Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood is a unique characteristic of the neighborhood. 77.7% of adults here have received at least a 4-year bachelor's degree, compared to the average neighborhood in America, which has 34.3% of the adults with a bachelor's degree. The rate here is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, if you are planning to retire in Arizona, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Arizona, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 95.3% of neighborhoods in AZ. If a Arizona retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
The Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood has a higher proportion of its residents employed as executives, managers and professionals than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In fact, 70.9% of the employed people here make a living as an executive, a manager, or other professional. With such a high concentration, this truly shapes the character of this neighborhood, and to a large degree defines what this neighborhood is about.
Did you know that the Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood has more Haitian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 0.4% have Yugoslav ancestry.
Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.0% 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 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood in Tucson are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.7% of America'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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood, 70.9% 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 21.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (6.6%), and 5.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French, Spanish, Polish and Langs. of India.
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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood in Tucson, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report English roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.3%), along with some Haitian ancestry residents (8.6%), among others. In addition, 17.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Ventana / Ventana Canyon Mountain Estate neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (58.7%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.