St Marys Park median real estate price is $584,116, which is more expensive than 44.6% of the neighborhoods in New York and 73.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in St Marys Park is currently $3,148, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 47.4% of New York neighborhoods.
St Marys Park is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bronx, New York.
St Marys Park real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the St Marys Park neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In St Marys Park, the current vacancy rate is 0.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 100.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in St Marys Park is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 Bronx, the St Marys Park neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
100.0% of the real estate in the St Marys Park neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America. With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the St Marys Park neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the St Marys Park neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 100.0% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 99.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
Furthermore, the St Marys Park neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 84.0% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
People
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the St Marys Park neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Modes of Transportation
In the St Marys Park neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 57.6% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 100.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (15.2% ride the bus) than 97.4% 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.
Finally, if you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 18.9% of the St Marys Park neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 97.1% of America's neighborhoods.
Car Ownership
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the St Marys Park neighborhood buck this trend. 81.1% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the St Marys Park neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 18.9% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Migration / Stability
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. More residents of the St Marys Park neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Diversity
Did you know that the St Marys Park neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 16.6% have South American ancestry.
St Marys Park is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 65.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.7% 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 St Marys Park neighborhood in Bronx are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. 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.
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 St Marys Park neighborhood, 45.3% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 39.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 6.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the St Marys Park neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 65.2% of households. Some people also speak English (34.8%).
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 St Marys Park neighborhood in Bronx, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (40.8%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 27.5% 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 St Marys Park neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (57.6%) carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (18.9%) and 15.2% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. Despite relying on the automobile to get to work, residents of this neighborhood share the ride more than most neighborhoods, reducing traffic, pollution, and saving money.
