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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Anvil Points / Rulison median real estate price is $679,292, which is more expensive than 63.0% of the neighborhoods in Colorado and 79.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Anvil Points / Rulison is currently $3,216, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 80.2% of the neighborhoods in Colorado.

Anvil Points / Rulison is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Rifle, Colorado.

Anvil Points / Rulison real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Anvil Points / Rulison 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.

Anvil Points / Rulison has a 11.8% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 68.8% 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

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 Rifle, the Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Anvil Points / Rulison 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 Anvil Points / Rulison community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

In addition, of particular note, 9.4% of the people in the Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 56.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 6 residents per square mile, Anvil Points / Rulison is less crowded than 98.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 16.5% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.

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 Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood in Rifle are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 94.2% 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 Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood, 26.9% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.6%), and 18.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.0%).

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 Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood in Rifle, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Anvil Points / Rulison neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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