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    Harrisonburg, VA (Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills)





    Real Estate Prices & Overview

    Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills median real estate price is $493,098, which is more expensive than 56.0% of the neighborhoods in Virginia and 63.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

    The average rental price in Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills is currently $2,095, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 64.0% of Virginia neighborhoods.

    Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

    Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills 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 Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 15.5%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 80.1% 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.

    Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

    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.

    People

    NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 66.6% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

    In addition, one of the unique characteristics of the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Also of note, 70.0% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

    Also, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.7% of the neighborhoods in VA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

    Real Estate

    95.6% of the real estate in the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.

    In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 75.8% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America.

    Occupations

    From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.7% of all American neighborhoods.

    Car Ownership

    American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

    Length of Commute

    Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 57.7% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

    Migration / Stability

    Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. In the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 99.2% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

    Diversity

    Significantly, 0.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

    The Neighbors

    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 Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood in Harrisonburg are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 70.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.6% 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 Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood, 38.2% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 35.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.0%), and 12.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

    Languages

    The most common language spoken in the Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.4%).

    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 Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood in Harrisonburg, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.9%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (4.6%), among others. In addition, 11.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

    Getting to Work

    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 Pheasant Acres / Forest Hills neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

    Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (10.5%) and 7.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.

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