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Real Estate Prices & Overview

S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S median real estate price is $210,044, which is more expensive than 44.5% of the neighborhoods in Iowa and 21.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood are currently unreported, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.

S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Newton, Iowa.

S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S real estate is primarily made up of . Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S 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 1970 and 1999.

In S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S, 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 S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S 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.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S 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 S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

In addition, an interesting characteristic about the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.9% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

Also, the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood is unique for having just 0.8% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of America's neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

In the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 50.0% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.

Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (25.0% ride the bus) than 99.4% 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.

Occupations

There are more people living in the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (50.0%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

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. In the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 99.3% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

Diversity

Did you know that the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood has more Dutch and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.9% have Danish 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 S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood in Newton 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.

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 S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood, 50.0% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.0%).

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood in Newton, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

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 S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (100.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (25.0%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (25.0%) . The bus provides a valuable service in the S 60th Ave W / W 4th St S neighborhood of Newton by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.


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