Post Road North / Forest Heights median real estate price is $473,072, which is more expensive than 57.0% of the neighborhoods in Connecticut and 63.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Post Road North / Forest Heights is currently $3,396, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 83.5% of the neighborhoods in Connecticut.
Post Road North / Forest Heights is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Milford, Connecticut.
Post Road North / Forest Heights real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Post Road North / Forest Heights 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 Post Road North / Forest Heights are 3.7%, which is lower than one will find in 75.8% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Post Road North / Forest 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 Milford, the Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood has more Hungarian and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 25.0% have Italian ancestry.
Post Road North / Forest Heights is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Langs. of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood in Milford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.1% 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 74.8% 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 Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood, 51.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (12.5%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Langs. of India.
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 Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood in Milford, CT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (25.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.4%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (8.3%), among others. In addition, 13.5% 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 Post Road North / Forest Heights neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.8%) 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 (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.