Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood median real estate price is $143,014, which is less expensive than 90.4% of North Carolina neighborhoods and 88.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood is currently $1,920, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 43.7% of North Carolina neighborhoods.
Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood 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 Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.3% in Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood (31.4%) than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood about it; they already know. 24.4% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Did you know that the Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood in Greensboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.0% 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 Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood, 33.8% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 13.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (21.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood in Greensboro, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.9%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (4.0%), among others. In addition, 19.6% 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 Piedmont Hills / Rainbow Meadowood neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (53.8%) 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 (31.4%) and 9.3% of residents also ride the bus 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.