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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods median real estate price is $1,007,243, which is more expensive than 61.5% of the neighborhoods in California and 90.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods is currently $1,481, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 96.9% of California neighborhoods.

Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in San Jose, California.

Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods 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 small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods 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 Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods, the current vacancy rate is 2.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 80.9% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 San Jose, the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods (30.7%) than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood has more Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry.

Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 37.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 100.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (57.4%) than are found in 98.9% 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 Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood in San Jose are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood, 29.6% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.9%), and 22.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood is Vietnamese, spoken by 37.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, English, German/Yiddish and Mon-Khmer (the dominant language of Cambodia).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood in San Jose, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (60.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (28.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others. In addition, 57.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Rockspring / Roberts - Walnut Woods neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (56.7%) 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 (30.7%) . 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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