Heritage Pointe Park median real estate price is $238,542, which is less expensive than 70.0% of Georgia neighborhoods and 71.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Heritage Pointe Park is currently $1,139, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 95.1% of Georgia neighborhoods.
Heritage Pointe Park is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Dalton, Georgia.
Heritage Pointe Park real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two 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 Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Heritage Pointe Park are 3.7%, which is lower than one will find in 75.4% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Heritage Pointe Park 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.
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 Dalton, the Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood has more single mother households than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
In addition, of note, 54.4% 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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Heritage Pointe Park 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 48.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.6% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 68.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Heritage Pointe Park is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 64.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.5% 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 Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood in Dalton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 54.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.5% 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 Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood, 48.9% 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.2%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 64.0% of households. Some people also speak English (35.5%).
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 Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood in Dalton, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (68.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 33.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Heritage Pointe Park neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (18.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.