Dumont Ave / Osborn St median real estate price is $676,912, which is more expensive than 51.7% of the neighborhoods in New York and 79.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Dumont Ave / Osborn St is currently $2,455, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.0% of New York neighborhoods.
Dumont Ave / Osborn St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brooklyn, New York.
Dumont Ave / Osborn St real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Real estate vacancies in Dumont Ave / Osborn St are 4.6%, which is lower than one will find in 69.6% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Dumont Ave / Osborn St 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.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Length of Commute
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 27.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
Modes of Transportation
In the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood, 60.0% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (18.1% ride the bus) than 98.2% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.
Real Estate
What you'll find when you visit or move to this neighborhood is one of the most crowded neighborhoods in all of America. With an incredible 101,780 people per square mile, it is more densely populated than 99.7% of America'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 Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 97.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 99.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
Furthermore, 99.0% of the real estate in the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
People
One of the unique characteristics of the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Car Ownership
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 52.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood has more Jamaican and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 7.4% have Dominican ancestry.
Dumont Ave / Osborn St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Migration / Stability
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood. More residents of the Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.2% 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 Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood in Brooklyn are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 51.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.6% 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 Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood, 31.6% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.5%), and 18.4% in manufacturing and laborer 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 Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Jamaican (10.8%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (7.4%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 28.2% 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 Dumont Ave / Osborn St neighborhood spend longer than one hour commuting one-way to work (27.7% of working residents), one of the longer commutes in America, which is a potential downside for residents of this neighborhood.
Here most residents (60.0%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (18.1%) and 12.2% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile 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.
