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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens median real estate price is $365,945, which is more expensive than 36.9% of the neighborhoods in Arizona and 50.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens is currently $1,972, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 67.6% of Arizona neighborhoods.

Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Mesa, Arizona.

Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Real estate vacancies in Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens are 4.9%, which is lower than one will find in 67.3% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

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

The Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood is unique for having just 3.3% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of America's neighborhoods.

In addition, watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.9% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.

Also, of note, 64.0% 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.

Occupations

There are more people living in the Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (59.1%) 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens (23.1%) than in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 73.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 63.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood in Mesa are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 64.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.6% 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 Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood, 40.9% 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 38.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.3%), and 9.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.5% of households. Some people also speak English (34.7%).

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 Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood in Mesa, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (73.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 31.6% 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 Watertower Improvement / North Sunland Gardens neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (66.4%) 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 (23.1%) . 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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