E 231st St / Barnes Ave median real estate price is $906,973, which is more expensive than 67.7% of the neighborhoods in New York and 87.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in E 231st St / Barnes Ave is currently $3,283, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 47.2% of New York neighborhoods.
E 231st St / Barnes Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bronx, New York.
E 231st St / Barnes Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
In E 231st St / Barnes Ave, the current vacancy rate is 1.4%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 89.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in E 231st St / Barnes Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the E 231st St / Barnes Ave community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 13.4% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
Also, the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood stands out within New York for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 5.6% of college-friendly places to live in NY.
If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 35.6% of the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 98.8% of America's neighborhoods.
Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 47,606 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.3% of the nation's neighborhoods. Even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
In addition, three-deckers, duplexes, old Victorian homes cut up into apartments. Independent stores on the corner selling pizza. These are some of the hallmarks of neighborhoods with lots of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. The E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood really stands out in this regard, however, as it is dominated by such small apartment buildings more than nearly any other neighborhood in America. This is a stunning visual and lifestyle example of this type of neighborhood. In fact, 33.4% of the real estate here are small 2, 3, or 4 unit apartment buildings, which is a higher proportion than found in 95.8% of America's neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The E 231st St / Barnes Ave 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 E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.1% 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 98.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood buck this trend. 25.4% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood has more Jamaican and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 22.5% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
E 231st St / Barnes Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (52.8%) than are found in 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood in Bronx are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood, 28.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 21.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
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 E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood is English, spoken by 62.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, French and African languages.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood in Bronx, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Dominican roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (11.2%), along with some Haitian ancestry residents (1.2%), among others. In addition, 52.8% 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 E 231st St / Barnes Ave neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (36.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (35.6%) and 15.6% 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.
