Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights median real estate price is $345,469, which is more expensive than 37.6% of the neighborhoods in Virginia and 46.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights is currently $1,850, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 68.7% of Virginia neighborhoods.
Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Roanoke, Virginia.
Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights, the current vacancy rate is 2.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 82.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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.
Did you know that the Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 1.0% have Lebanese ancestry.
Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood in Roanoke are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.6% 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 66.1% of America'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 Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood, 41.1% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 15.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
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 Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood in Roanoke, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 Tinker Knoll / North Burlington Heights neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.