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Real Estate Prices & Overview

El Centro South median real estate price is $464,476, which is less expensive than 85.3% of California neighborhoods and 37.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in El Centro South is currently $3,456, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 41.5% of California neighborhoods.

El Centro South is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in El Centro, California.

El Centro South real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the El Centro South neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

El Centro South has a 14.6% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 77.0% of American neighborhoods). A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (9.0%), which can occur in some markets dominated by colleges or vacation homes. If you live here year round, you will find many of the homes or apartments are empty for all or a portion of the year.

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.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the El Centro South neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 20.9% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the El Centro South neighborhood. A whopping 68.7% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.

Diversity

Did you know that the El Centro South neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 80.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

El Centro South is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 59.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 El Centro South neighborhood in El Centro are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 28.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.2% 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 El Centro South neighborhood, 40.9% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (20.9%), and 19.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the El Centro South neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 59.7% of households. Some people also speak English (38.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 El Centro South neighborhood in El Centro, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (80.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.5%), and residents who report Spanish roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 21.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 El Centro South neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.8%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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