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    Los Angeles, CA (Harvard Heights Northwest)







    Real Estate Prices & Overview

    Harvard Heights Northwest median real estate price is $1,486,508, which is more expensive than 83.4% of the neighborhoods in California and 96.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

    The average rental price in Harvard Heights Northwest is currently $2,133, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 87.0% of California neighborhoods.

    Harvard Heights Northwest is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Los Angeles, California.

    Harvard Heights Northwest real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

    Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.0% in Harvard Heights Northwest. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 45.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

    Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

    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 Los Angeles, the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

    Modes of Transportation

    Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (31.5% ride the bus) than 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.

    Occupations

    There are more people living in the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (52.5%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

    Real Estate

    If you like crowded places, then you will probably enjoy the the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive data analysis, this neighborhood is more densely populated than 96.3% of neighborhoods in the U.S., with 26,390 people per square mile living here. Even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.

    In addition, 87.7% of the real estate in the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.

    Furthermore, do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 55.7% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

    People

    The Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (58.7%) than found in 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

    In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 87.8% of the neighborhoods in CA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

    Car Ownership

    We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 24.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

    Diversity

    Significantly, 81.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

    Migration / Stability

    The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (53.3%) than are found in 98.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

    The Neighbors

    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 Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood in Los Angeles are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.7% 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 Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood, 47.5% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.5%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

    Languages

    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 Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 81.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Korean.

    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 Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood in Los Angeles, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.5%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (1.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 53.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

    Getting to Work

    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 Harvard Heights Northwest neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (61.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

    Here most residents (49.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (31.5%) and 10.0% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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