Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase median real estate price is $524,559, which is more expensive than 59.9% of the neighborhoods in Maryland and 66.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase is currently $1,905, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 84.5% of Maryland neighborhoods.
Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in La Plata, Maryland.
Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase 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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase 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 7.3% in Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 52.0% 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 La Plata, the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, of particular note, 3.8% of the people in the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
The Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.8% 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.
Furthermore, the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase 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, 26.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Did you know that the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood has more Haitian and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 0.7% have Brazilian 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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood in La Plata are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 84.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood, 48.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 12.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.0%).
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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood in La Plata, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.6%), along with some Haitian ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.8%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.