Orion Ave / Nordhoff St median real estate price is $487,244, which is less expensive than 83.4% of California neighborhoods and 34.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Orion Ave / Nordhoff St is currently $2,676, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 69.0% of California neighborhoods.
Orion Ave / Nordhoff St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Los Angeles, California.
Orion Ave / Nordhoff St real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Orion Ave / Nordhoff 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.
Real estate vacancies in Orion Ave / Nordhoff St are 5.9%, which is lower than one will find in 60.3% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Orion Ave / Nordhoff St 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.
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.
Occupations
There are more people living in the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (50.0%) 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.
Real Estate
The real estate in the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 92.8% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 98.6% of American neighborhoods.
In addition, the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 43,168 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.1% of the nation's neighborhoods.
Furthermore, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 92.1%, which is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
Also of note, the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 87.7% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
Modes of Transportation
Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (13.0% ride the bus) than 96.5% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.
People
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.0% of the adult residents in the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, with more than 1.6% of residents living with a same sex partner, Orion Ave / Nordhoff St is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Migration / Stability
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. What is interesting to note, is that the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (54.9%) than are found in 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood has more Armenian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry.
Orion Ave / Nordhoff St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 84.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.1% 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 Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood in Los Angeles are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.8% 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 Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood, 50.0% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.9%), and 5.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 84.5% of households. Some people also speak English (10.6%).
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 Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood in Los Angeles, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (45.5%). In addition, 54.9% 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 Orion Ave / Nordhoff St neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (61.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (13.0%) and 10.1% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
