White Street Gallery District / Midtown median real estate price is $1,178,119, which is more expensive than 93.7% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 91.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in White Street Gallery District / Midtown is currently $3,136, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 68.1% of the neighborhoods in Florida.
White Street Gallery District / Midtown is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Key West, Florida.
White Street Gallery District / Midtown real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
White Street Gallery District / Midtown has a 12.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 70.9% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Key West, the White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer. But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that the White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood is a fantastic option for bicycle commuters, as 14.3% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are more people living in the White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Furthermore, the White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.7% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
With more than 1.9% of residents living with a same sex partner, White Street Gallery District / Midtown is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood has more Cuban and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry and 1.6% have Eastern European 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 White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood in Key West are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 30.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.3% 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 White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood, 42.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.5%), and 5.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (18.1%).
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 White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood in Key West, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Cuban (19.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.4%), among others. In addition, 25.2% 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 White Street Gallery District / Midtown neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (62.6%) 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 (15.4%) and 14.3% of residents also bicycle 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.