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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase median real estate price is $535,061, which is more expensive than 60.3% of the neighborhoods in Maryland and 67.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase is currently $1,780, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 88.2% of Maryland neighborhoods.

Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in La Plata, Maryland.

Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase 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.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.1% in Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 45.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, of particular note, 3.8% of the people in the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 17.0% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.2% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood could be your paradise. With 25.5% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 4.4% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

Car Ownership

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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood has more Brazilian and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 2.1% have Haitian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood in La Plata are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 82.8% 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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood, 43.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.0%), and 17.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.2%).

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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood in La Plata, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 Mt Carmel Estates / The Villages of Steeplechase neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (70.1%) 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 (18.7%) . 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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