Elberta / Sickles Corner median real estate price is $233,311, which is less expensive than 62.6% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 72.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Elberta / Sickles Corner is currently $1,636, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 55.8% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.
Elberta / Sickles Corner is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Elberta / Sickles Corner real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Elberta / Sickles Corner has a 14.1% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 75.8% 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 Altoona, the Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Elberta / Sickles Corner 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 Elberta / Sickles Corner community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.1% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
Elberta / Sickles Corner is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% 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 Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood in Altoona are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.6% 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.
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 Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood, 28.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 22.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (12.5%).
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 Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood in Altoona, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 Elberta / Sickles Corner neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.