Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin median real estate price is $472,278, which is less expensive than 84.4% of California neighborhoods and 36.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin is currently $1,999, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 88.0% of California neighborhoods.
Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Stockton, California.
Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Real estate vacancies in Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin are 4.6%, which is lower than one will find in 69.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin (27.3%) than in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin 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 86.5% 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 Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 29.9% have Asian ancestry.
Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood in Stockton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.1% 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 Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood, 29.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.5%), and 21.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Mon-Khmer (the dominant language of Cambodia), Langs. of India and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood in Stockton, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (29.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.3%), along with some Czechoslovakian ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 17.2% 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 Western Valley Estates / Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.9%) 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 (27.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.