Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W median real estate price is $309,589, which is more expensive than 75.6% of the neighborhoods in Alabama and 41.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W is currently $1,214, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 80.4% of Alabama neighborhoods.
Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Northport, Alabama.
Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W 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.
In Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W, the current vacancy rate is 0.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 100.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood stands out by having 91.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.1% of all American neighborhoods.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W 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 87.0% of the neighborhoods in AL. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% 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 Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood in Northport are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.5% 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 Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood, 43.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.6%).
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 Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood in Northport, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.6%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 Union Chapel Rd / Northwood Lake Dr W neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.9%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.