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Real Estate Prices & Overview

White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge median real estate price is $520,048, which is more expensive than 63.6% of the neighborhoods in Maryland and 71.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge is currently $3,102, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 77.8% of the neighborhoods in Maryland.

White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Hyattsville, Maryland.

White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge has a 9.8% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 60.9% 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.

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge (24.2%) than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (10.6% ride the bus) than 95.2% 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.

People

Of note, 53.8% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

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 White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (63.6%) than are found in 99.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood has more Dominican and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 12.1% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% 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 White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood in Hyattsville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 84.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 53.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.3% 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 Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood, 29.2% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (27.6%), and 14.9% 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 White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 42.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, French, African languages and Vietnamese.

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 White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood in Hyattsville, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (13.6%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report African roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents (3.9%), among others. In addition, 63.6% 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 White Oak Manor / Buck Lodge neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (53.5%) 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 (24.2%) and 10.6% of residents also ride the bus 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.


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