Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd median real estate price is $383,750, which is more expensive than 61.2% of the neighborhoods in Georgia and 53.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd is currently $2,469, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 60.5% of the neighborhoods in Georgia.
Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Norcross, Georgia.
Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Real estate vacancies in Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd are 3.6%, which is lower than one will find in 76.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd 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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood has more single mother households than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
In addition, the Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (68.6%) than found in 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd (25.6%) than in 97.4% 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 Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood in Norcross are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 68.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.3% 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 Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood, 32.9% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.5%), and 16.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 51.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (38.0%).
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 Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood in Norcross, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (38.0%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 25.0% 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 Hillcrest Rd / Hillcrest Spur Rd neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (62.3%) 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 (25.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.