Median real estate price in the City Center of Mattawa is $550,241, which is more expensive than 41.8% of the neighborhoods in Washington and 70.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Mattawa City Center is currently $1,594, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 86.5% of Washington neighborhoods.
Mattawa City Center is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Mattawa, Washington.
Real estate in the City Center of Mattawa, WA is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) mobile 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 City Center neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.7% in Mattawa City Center. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 55.5% 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 Mattawa, the City Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the Mattawa City Center neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 62.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The Mattawa City Center neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 59.8% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Mattawa City Center neighborhood about it; they already know. 23.5% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% 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.
In addition, the Mattawa City Center neighborhood is unique for having just 2.7% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of America's neighborhoods.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the Mattawa City Center neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 36.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the Mattawa City Center neighborhood has more Mexican and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 90.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 2.0% have Danish ancestry.
Mattawa City Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 93.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Mattawa City Center neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (53.8%) than are found in 98.4% 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 City Center neighborhood in Mattawa are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.5% of U.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 Mattawa City Center neighborhood, 62.3% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 13.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (12.2%), and 11.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Mattawa City Center neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak English (6.1%).
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 City Center neighborhood in Mattawa, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (90.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (2.2%), and residents who report Danish roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.3%). In addition, 53.8% 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 Mattawa City Center neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.0%) 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 (18.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.