Forest Hill Village North median real estate price is $224,056, which is more expensive than 22.6% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 30.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Forest Hill Village North is currently $2,614, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 50.6% of Florida neighborhoods.
Forest Hill Village North is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Forest Hill Village North real estate 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 Forest Hill Village North neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In Forest Hill Village North, the current vacancy rate is 1.7%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.3% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Forest Hill Village North is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 West Palm Beach, the Forest Hill Village North neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In the Forest Hill Village North neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the Forest Hill Village North neighborhood than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the Forest Hill Village North neighborhood has more Cuban and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry and 5.1% have Haitian ancestry.
Forest Hill Village North is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Forest Hill Village North neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Forest Hill Village North neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (49.9%) than are found in 97.6% 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 Forest Hill Village North neighborhood in West Palm Beach are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.3% 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 Forest Hill Village North neighborhood, 42.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.6%), and 8.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Forest Hill Village North neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 60.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, French and Italian.
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 Forest Hill Village North neighborhood in West Palm Beach, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Cuban ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Haitian roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.7%), along with some South American ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 49.9% 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 Forest Hill Village North neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (69.9%) 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 (23.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.