Wingate Village / East Industrial median real estate price is $562,337, which is more expensive than 82.6% of the neighborhoods in Georgia and 71.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Wingate Village / East Industrial is currently $2,562, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 64.3% of the neighborhoods in Georgia.
Wingate Village / East Industrial is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Chamblee, Georgia.
Wingate Village / East Industrial 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 Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Wingate Village / East Industrial has a 14.1% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 75.7% 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.
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.
In the Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 43.6% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.9% of American neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood buck this trend. 38.2% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Of note, 65.7% 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.
93.3% of the real estate in the Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
Significantly, 92.2% 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.
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 Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (45.5%) than are found in 96.3% 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 Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood in Chamblee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 65.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.9% 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 Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood, 50.0% 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 35.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (9.6%), and 5.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 92.2% of households. Some people also speak English (7.1%).
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 Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood in Chamblee, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.5%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (3.1%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of Cuban ancestry (1.7%). In addition, 45.5% 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 Wingate Village / East Industrial neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (43.6%) carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (27.7%) and 25.9% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. Despite relying on the automobile to get to work, residents of this neighborhood share the ride more than most neighborhoods, reducing traffic, pollution, and saving money.