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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields median real estate price is $334,911, which is less expensive than 70.9% of Maryland neighborhoods and 52.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields is currently $2,237, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.2% of Maryland neighborhoods.

Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Germantown, Maryland.

Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields 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 townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields 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.

In Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields, the current vacancy rate is 1.1%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 91.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 90.5% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 35.9% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 13.8% have South American ancestry.

Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.0% 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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood in Germantown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.1% 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 74.8% 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 Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood, 50.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 20.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.2%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood is English, spoken by 44.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, French and Langs. of India.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood in Germantown, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as South American (13.8%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.2%), among others. In addition, 40.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Farmingdale Estates / Pleasant Fields neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (68.4%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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