Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest median real estate price is $340,682, which is less expensive than 72.8% of Maryland neighborhoods and 53.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest is currently $2,594, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 47.1% of Maryland neighborhoods.
Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Middle River, Maryland.
Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) townhomes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest 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.
Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest has a 11.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 67.5% 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 Middle River, the Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 43.1% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
The Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (67.9%) than found in 98.2% 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.
In addition, with more than 1.8% of residents living with a same sex partner, Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood has more Arab and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry and 18.0% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood in Middle River are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 67.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.3%), and 14.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic, Polish and African languages.
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 Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood in Middle River, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (18.0%). There are also a number of people of Arab ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report Asian roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (6.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.4%), among others. In addition, 24.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Ballard Gardens / Maple Crest neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.0%) 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%) and 6.6% of residents also ride the bus 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.