80th St / 45th Ave median real estate price is $857,001, which is more expensive than 61.1% of the neighborhoods in New York and 84.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in 80th St / 45th Ave is currently $3,828, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 67.3% of the neighborhoods in New York.
80th St / 45th Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Queens, New York.
80th St / 45th 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 renter occupied. Many of the residences in the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
80th St / 45th Ave has a 9.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 61.6% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are 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 Queens, the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 63.6% of the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What you'll find when you visit or move to this neighborhood is one of the most crowded neighborhoods in all of America. With an incredible 117,735 people per square mile, it is more densely populated than 99.8% of America's neighborhoods. Being a walkable neighborhood can help increase property values for the simple reason that people enjoy it and value it. To put it plainly, despite our love affair with the automobile, American's enjoy taking to the streets, sidewalks, paths, and courtyards of a place to get a coffee, relax, and take in the sights and sounds. And, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive and first quantitative walkable score index, the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood is one of the most walkable neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 90.7% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
Furthermore, the real estate in the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 75.8% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 96.0% of American neighborhoods.
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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 72.0% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There are more people living in the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (53.5%) 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.
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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (73.7%) than are found in 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood has more Asian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 11.5% have South American ancestry.
80th St / 45th Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% 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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood in Queens are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 30.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.4% 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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood, 46.5% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.1%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 38.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, English, Langs. of India and Korean.
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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood in Queens, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (49.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report South American roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (5.9%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.3%), among others. In addition, 73.7% 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 80th St / 45th Ave neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (50.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (63.6%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (12.8%) and 7.3% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.
