Sequoia Ave / Virgil St median real estate price is $334,675, which is less expensive than 77.8% of Nevada neighborhoods and 54.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Sequoia Ave / Virgil St is currently $1,972, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 65.0% of Nevada neighborhoods.
Sequoia Ave / Virgil St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sequoia Ave / Virgil St real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes 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 Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 9.5% in Sequoia Ave / Virgil St. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 40.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Sequoia Ave / Virgil St (37.6%) than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are more people living in the Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (56.1%) 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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood.
In addition, the Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood is unique for having just 6.6% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood has more Mexican and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 68.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 3.1% have Cuban ancestry.
Sequoia Ave / Virgil St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 69.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Sequoia Ave / Virgil St 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 86.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.6% 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 Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood, 43.9% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (13.4%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 69.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood in Las Vegas, NV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (68.1%). There are also a number of people of Cuban ancestry (3.1%), and residents who report Asian roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 33.7% 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 Sequoia Ave / Virgil St neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (60.5%) 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 (37.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.