Granada Heights median real estate price is $643,619, which is less expensive than 70.1% of California neighborhoods and 22.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Granada Heights is currently $2,091, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 85.8% of California neighborhoods.
Granada Heights is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Vallejo, California.
Granada Heights real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Granada Heights neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Granada Heights are 4.5%, which is lower than one will find in 69.8% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Granada Heights 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.
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 Vallejo, the Granada Heights neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Granada Heights neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Granada Heights community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In the Granada Heights neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 27.4% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Granada Heights neighborhood has more Belgian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 6.7% have French Canadian ancestry.
Granada Heights is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% 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 Granada Heights neighborhood in Vallejo are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 81.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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 Granada Heights neighborhood, 26.3% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.3%), and 19.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
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 Granada Heights neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Granada Heights neighborhood in Vallejo, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.1%), among others.
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 Granada Heights neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (24.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (61.8%) 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 (27.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.