Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk median real estate price is $433,395, which is more expensive than 66.6% of the neighborhoods in Georgia and 58.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk is currently $2,403, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 41.9% of Georgia neighborhoods.
Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fairburn, Georgia.
Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk, 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 Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk 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 Fairburn, the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has the distinction of having one of the lowest real estate vacancy rates of any neighborhood in America. With just 0.0% of the real estate vacant, this indicates an exceptionally strong demand for real estate in the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood, and/or an issue with creating enough supply for the demand. This could have the effect of increasing real estate prices, increasing supply to meet demand, or both.
In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood. A whopping 73.7% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 96.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
A unique way of commuting is simply not to. And in the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood, analysis shows that 36.2% of the residents work from home, avoiding a commute altogether. This may not seem like a large number, but it is a higher proportion of people working from home than is found in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States. One thing NeighborhoodScout's research reveals is that the wealthier and/or more isolated the neighborhood, the greater the proportion of residents who choose to work from home.
Astoundingly, the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Fairburn neighborhood.
Did you know that the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood has more African and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.3% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry and 15.3% have Sub-Saharan African 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 Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood in Fairburn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.0% 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 Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood, 45.8% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.4%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).
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 Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood in Fairburn, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (15.3%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 Durham Lakes Brookhaven Park / Castlewalk neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (52.8%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.