Median real estate price in the City Center of Green Cove Springs is $213,349, which is less expensive than 86.5% of Florida neighborhoods and 76.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Green Cove Springs City Center is currently $1,628, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 89.4% of Florida neighborhoods.
Green Cove Springs City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Real estate in the City Center of Green Cove Springs, FL 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 occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the City Center neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 9.4% in Green Cove Springs City Center. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 40.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Green Cove Springs, the City Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 7.2% of the people in the City Center neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the Green Cove Springs City Center neighborhood has more Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban 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 the City Center neighborhood in Green Cove Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 53.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.0% 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 Green Cove Springs City Center neighborhood, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Green Cove Springs City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).
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 City Center neighborhood in Green Cove Springs, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.0%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 Green Cove Springs City Center neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (62.9%) 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 (17.9%) and 7.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.