Royal Way / Pioneer Dr median real estate price is $306,336, which is less expensive than 95.4% of California neighborhoods and 59.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Royal Way / Pioneer Dr is currently $2,536, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 73.4% of California neighborhoods.
Royal Way / Pioneer Dr is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bakersfield, California.
Royal Way / Pioneer Dr real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more 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 Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.4% in Royal Way / Pioneer Dr. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 45.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Royal Way / Pioneer Dr 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 100.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 63.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 100.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Royal Way / Pioneer Dr (37.0%) than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood is unique for having just 6.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, of note, 55.3% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Did you know that the Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood has more Swedish and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 1.2% have Canadian ancestry.
Royal Way / Pioneer Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 60.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood in Bakersfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.0% 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 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood, 48.0% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (13.7%), and 10.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 60.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Langs. of India.
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 Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood in Bakersfield, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (62.6%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 31.1% 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 Royal Way / Pioneer Dr neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (60.7%) 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 (37.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.