Weston Park / Downtown Hemet median real estate price is $370,657, which is less expensive than 91.8% of California neighborhoods and 49.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Weston Park / Downtown Hemet is currently $2,197, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 82.8% of California neighborhoods.
Weston Park / Downtown Hemet is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Hemet, California.
Weston Park / Downtown Hemet real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.1% in Weston Park / Downtown Hemet. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 47.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Hemet, the Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.1% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.6% of all neighborhoods in America.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.3% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 53.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood in Hemet are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.0% 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 Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood, 38.2% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 11.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood is English, spoken by 61.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (37.2%).
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 Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood in Hemet, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (53.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 21.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Weston Park / Downtown Hemet neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (15.1%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (61.2%) 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 (17.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.