Median real estate price in the Town Center of Lamont is $275,671, which is less expensive than 96.1% of California neighborhoods and 64.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Lamont Town Center is currently $1,350, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 98.5% of California neighborhoods.
Lamont Town Center is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lamont, California.
Real estate in the Town Center of Lamont, CA is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Town Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Lamont Town Center has a 9.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 61.2% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Lamont, the Town Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Lamont Town Center neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 100.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 97.5% of the adult residents in the Lamont Town Center neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the Lamont Town Center neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 65.2% 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.
Our research reveals that 90.2% of commuters who live in the Lamont Town Center neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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. More residents of the Lamont Town Center neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while. What is interesting to note, is that the Lamont Town Center neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (52.1%) than are found in 98.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Lamont Town Center neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 91.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Lamont Town Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 92.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Town Center neighborhood in Lamont are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 65.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.8% of U.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 Lamont Town Center neighborhood, 57.2% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 17.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (10.7%), and 10.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Lamont Town Center neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 92.0% of households. Some people also speak English (8.0%).
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 Town Center neighborhood in Lamont, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (91.9%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (3.2%). In addition, 52.1% 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 Lamont Town Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (80.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.2%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.