Tri Palm Estates and Country Club / Shangri la Palms median real estate price is $344,692, which is less expensive than 91.6% of California neighborhoods and 54.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Tri Palm Estates and Country Club / Shangri la Palms is currently $2,233, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 82.0% of California neighborhoods.
Tri Palm Estates and Country Club / Shangri la Palms is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Thousand Palms, California.
Tri Palm Estates and Country Club / Shangri la Palms 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 owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Tri Palm Estates and Country Club / Shangri la Palms neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Tri Palm Estates and Country Club / Shangri la Palms. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 23.2%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 90.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (15.6%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 46.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
There are more people living in this neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (55.4%) 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.
According to NeighborhoodScout's research, this neighborhood is better suited for first-time home buyers than 85.7% of neighborhoods in the state. Most homes here are priced below the state's median house value, yet maintain comparably good appreciation rates over the last decade relative to other neighborhoods in California. Along with an exclusive multi-metric measure of neighborhood quality developed by NeighborhoodScout that scores high here in this neighborhood, this means that buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but considered a decent first time home buyer choice for building equity in your first home, while being in a quality neighborhood
Did you know that this neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 61.5% 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 this neighborhood in Thousand Palms are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.2% 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 this neighborhood, 44.6% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.4%), and 15.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in this neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (43.1%).
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 this neighborhood in Thousand Palms, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (61.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 this neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (65.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.