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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes median real estate price is $159,120, which is less expensive than 90.9% of Florida neighborhoods and 83.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes is currently $1,754, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 85.5% of Florida neighborhoods.

Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Melbourne, Florida.

Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes 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 Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes 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.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 21.8%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 89.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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 Melbourne, the Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.0% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.

People

An extraordinary 15.3% of the residents of the Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood stands out by having 89.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood has more Haitian and Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 6.1% have Arab ancestry.

Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood in Melbourne are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.0% 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 Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood, 40.4% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.9%), and 17.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.3% of households. Some people also speak Arabic (6.3%).

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 Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood in Melbourne, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (12.6%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Arab roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (6.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 13.8% 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 Briarwood Park / Sunset Homes neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (6.2%) . 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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