Callahan Park median real estate price is $93,502, which is less expensive than 93.7% of Indiana neighborhoods and 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Callahan Park is currently $829, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 98.7% of Indiana neighborhoods.
Callahan Park is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in East Chicago, Indiana.
Callahan 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 and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Callahan Park neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Callahan Park has a 9.9% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 61.3% 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.
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 East Chicago, the Callahan Park neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the most interesting things about the Callahan Park neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 61.3% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the Callahan Park neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States. The Callahan Park neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (57.2%) than found in 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Also, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 98.9% of the adult residents in the Callahan Park neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 12.8% of the Callahan Park neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 95.9% of America's neighborhoods.
Renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Callahan Park neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 86.4%, which is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Callahan Park neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 21.9% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Callahan Park neighborhood has more African and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.4% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry and 16.4% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Callahan Park neighborhood in East Chicago are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 57.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.2% of U.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 Callahan Park neighborhood, 28.4% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.2%), and 16.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Callahan Park neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.1%).
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 Callahan Park neighborhood in East Chicago, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.2%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report African roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (3.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 Callahan Park neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (64.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (12.8%) and 12.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.