Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive median real estate price is $579,922, which is less expensive than 75.6% of California neighborhoods and 27.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive is currently $3,914, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 71.9% of the neighborhoods in California.
Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fairfield, California.
Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) townhomes and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 19.6%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 88.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, 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 Fairfield, the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood may actually hold the key. 91.7% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 100.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, one of the really interesting characteristics about the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 4.1% of college-friendly places to live in the state of California.
With 36.8% of employed workers living in the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 99.9% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Furthermore, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive 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 96.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive 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, 73.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
In addition, 99.1% of the real estate in the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 67.4% 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 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Did you know that the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood. In the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.0% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
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 Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood in Fairfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.2% 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 77.5% of America'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 Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood, 39.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is the military, with 36.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.7%), and 20.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood in Fairfield, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (12.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (6.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 Travis Air Force Base / East St Vandenberg Drive neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (67.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
