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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Townsend Woods / River Edge median real estate price is $351,515, which is more expensive than 61.3% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 46.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Townsend Woods / River Edge is currently $1,960, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 49.1% of Illinois neighborhoods.

Townsend Woods / River Edge is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Sycamore, Illinois.

Townsend Woods / River Edge real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In Townsend Woods / River Edge, the current vacancy rate is 1.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 86.8% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Townsend Woods / River Edge is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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 Sycamore, the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 8.3% of residents in the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 99.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.

Real Estate

If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood. A whopping 74.9% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.

In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 27.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 5.6% have Greek ancestry.

Townsend Woods / River Edge is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood in Sycamore are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.3% 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 77.8% 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 Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood, 41.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 33.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.7%), and 7.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood in Sycamore, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Yugoslav roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Townsend Woods / River Edge neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also bicycle to get to work (8.3%) and 5.7% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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