Median real estate price in the City Center of Arvin is $249,980, which is less expensive than 97.4% of California neighborhoods and 69.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Arvin City Center is currently $1,575, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 95.8% of California neighborhoods.
Arvin City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Arvin, California.
Real estate in the City Center of Arvin, CA is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the City Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Arvin City Center are 5.0%, which is lower than one will find in 66.6% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Arvin City Center 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.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the Arvin City Center neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 45.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
In the Arvin City Center neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 26.7% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.7% of the adult residents in the Arvin City Center neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Arvin City Center neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 90.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Arvin City Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 83.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.9% 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 City Center neighborhood in Arvin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.2% 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 Arvin City Center neighborhood, 45.5% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.0%), and 14.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Arvin City Center neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 83.0% of households. Some people also speak English (16.7%).
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 City Center neighborhood in Arvin, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (90.5%). In addition, 36.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Arvin City Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.4%) 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 (26.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.