Canarsie Southwest median real estate price is $943,893, which is more expensive than 71.1% of the neighborhoods in New York and 89.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Canarsie Southwest is currently $3,429, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 60.7% of the neighborhoods in New York.
Canarsie Southwest is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brooklyn, New York.
Canarsie Southwest real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) small apartment buildings and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 7.0% in Canarsie Southwest. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 54.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Brooklyn, the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood could be your paradise. With 30.1% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 3.3% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.
In addition, the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 33,865 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 97.4% of the nation's neighborhoods. Even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The Canarsie Southwest neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, in the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood, 38.9% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood buck this trend. 23.9% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood has more Haitian and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 10.0% have Jamaican ancestry.
Canarsie Southwest is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 34.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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. What is interesting to note, is that the Canarsie Southwest neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (57.5%) than are found in 98.9% 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 Canarsie Southwest neighborhood in Brooklyn are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.8% 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 76.0% 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 Canarsie Southwest neighborhood, 32.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.0%), and 16.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 Canarsie Southwest neighborhood is English, spoken by 51.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
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 Canarsie Southwest neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (25.7%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report South American roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (5.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (5.5%), among others. In addition, 57.5% 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 Canarsie Southwest neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (52.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (38.9%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (32.5%) and 20.8% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.