W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave median real estate price is $294,413, which is more expensive than 51.9% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 38.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave is currently $1,706, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 60.2% of Illinois neighborhoods.
W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Chicago, Illinois.
W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave 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 owner occupied. Many of the residences in the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
In W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave, the current vacancy rate is 1.4%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 90.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave 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 Chicago, the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 33.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in IL. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 85.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 80.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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. More residents of the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood in Chicago are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.8% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood, 33.7% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 20.4% 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 W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 80.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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 W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood in Chicago, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (85.8%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report Polish roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.5%), among others. In addition, 33.2% 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 W 64th St / S Hamlin Ave neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (60.6%) 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 (33.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.