Double Oaks / Genesis Park median real estate price is $585,339, which is more expensive than 79.7% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina and 68.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Double Oaks / Genesis Park is currently $1,773, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 51.1% of North Carolina neighborhoods.
Double Oaks / Genesis Park is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Double Oaks / Genesis Park 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 occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In Double Oaks / Genesis Park, the current vacancy rate is 1.8%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 87.9% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Double Oaks / Genesis Park is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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.
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood. A whopping 81.7% 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 97.7% 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.
Did you know that the Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 11.7% have African ancestry.
Double Oaks / Genesis Park is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.7% 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 96.4% 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 Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood in Charlotte are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood, 39.3% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.9%), and 16.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood in Charlotte, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (19.4%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (4.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
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 Double Oaks / Genesis Park neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.4%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.