Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms median real estate price is $475,194, which is more expensive than 73.5% of the neighborhoods in Georgia and 63.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms is currently $2,394, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 42.3% of Georgia neighborhoods.
Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in South Fulton, Georgia.
Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms real estate is primarily made up of large (four, five or more bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms, the current vacancy rate is 1.7%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.2% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 South Fulton, the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood. A whopping 98.4% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new. In fact, the concentration of newer homes here is so great that they completely dominate the landscape. In most neighborhoods, there is a mixture of ages of residential real estate, but here it is almost completely built during one time frame: 2000 through today.
In addition, one way that the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.
Furthermore, owner-occupied real estate dominates the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 95.3% of neighborhoods in America.
People
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood about it; they already know. 32.6% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
In addition, a majority of the adults in the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Georgia by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in Georgia.
Also, an extraordinary 11.4% of the residents of the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
Length of Commute
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 20.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
Car Ownership
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Diversity
Did you know that the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood has more Haitian and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 18.4% have Jamaican ancestry.
Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Migration / Stability
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood. In the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.9% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
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 Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood in South Fulton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 81.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% 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 61.5% 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 Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood, 65.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 16.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (12.2%), and 6.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Some people also speak French (3.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood in South Fulton, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (18.4%). In addition, 10.4% 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 Legacy At Palmetto Farms / Falls at Cascade Palms neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (20.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
