Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd median real estate price is $326,009, which is less expensive than 80.6% of Nevada neighborhoods and 55.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd is currently $1,996, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 64.0% of Nevada neighborhoods.
Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd 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 Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd 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.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 17.6%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 83.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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 Las Vegas, the Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There are more people living in the Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.5% 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.
Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 80.5% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
Did you know that the Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood has more Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry.
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 Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood in Las Vegas are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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 Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood, 42.1% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.1%), and 13.1% in executive, management, and professional 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 Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood is English, spoken by 50.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood in Las Vegas, NV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (46.8%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (4.7%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban ancestry (2.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 21.8% 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 Spyglass Hill Dr / S Nellis Blvd neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (7.3%) and 5.4% of residents also ride the bus 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.