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Real Estate Prices & Overview

El Centro East median real estate price is $35,264, which is less expensive than 99.9% of California neighborhoods and 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in El Centro East is currently $1,739, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.3% of California neighborhoods.

El Centro East is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in El Centro, California.

El Centro East real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) mobile homes and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the El Centro East neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

El Centro East has a 9.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 62.6% of American neighborhoods). A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (7.6%), which can occur in some markets dominated by colleges or vacation homes. If you live here year round, you will find many of the homes or apartments are empty for all or a portion of the year.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 El Centro, the El Centro East neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The El Centro East neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 58.3% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the El Centro East neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the El Centro East neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 86.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

El Centro East is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 83.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 El Centro East neighborhood in El Centro are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.9% of U.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 El Centro East neighborhood, 31.7% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.9%), and 14.6% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the El Centro East neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 83.0% of households. Some people also speak English (17.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the El Centro East neighborhood in El Centro, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (86.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 38.2% 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 El Centro East neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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