Myricks Corner / North Shafter median real estate price is $435,194, which is less expensive than 88.0% of California neighborhoods and 41.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Myricks Corner / North Shafter is currently $1,543, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 97.1% of California neighborhoods.
Myricks Corner / North Shafter is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Shafter, California.
Myricks Corner / North Shafter real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Myricks Corner / North Shafter, the current vacancy rate is 0.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 100.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Myricks Corner / North Shafter is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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.
With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood. A whopping 71.6% 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 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.5% of the adult residents in the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood about it; they already know. 18.2% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Also, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Myricks Corner / North Shafter 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 87.0% 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.
Did you know that the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 83.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Myricks Corner / North Shafter is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 66.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood in Shafter are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.3% 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 Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood, 38.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.1%), and 12.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 66.1% of households. Some people also speak English (33.9%).
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 Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood in Shafter, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (83.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.9%). In addition, 25.9% 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 Myricks Corner / North Shafter neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.