Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave median real estate price is $864,785, which is more expensive than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in California and 86.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave is currently $2,474, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 75.2% of California neighborhoods.
Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in South Gate, California.
Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave, the current vacancy rate is 1.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 South Gate, the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave (24.9%) than in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
An extraordinary 11.6% of the residents of the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
Did you know that the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 84.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 88.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood in South Gate are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.7% 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 Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood, 37.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 14.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 88.6% of households. Some people also speak English (11.0%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood in South Gate, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (84.6%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (2.3%). In addition, 40.5% 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 Firestone Blvd / San Juan Ave neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (64.9%) 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 (24.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.