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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North median real estate price is $318,174, which is more expensive than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina and 39.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North is currently $1,878, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 41.5% of North Carolina neighborhoods.

Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.3% in Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 45.3% 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

Astoundingly, the Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% 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 Charlotte neighborhood.

In addition, the Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in the United States. The Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (63.0%) than found in 97.6% 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 93.8% of the adult residents in the Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood in Charlotte are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 63.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.6% 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 Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood, 36.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.3%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood in Charlotte, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (5.8%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (1.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 Druid Hills South / Druid Hills North neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (58.2%) 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 (15.2%) and 7.3% 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.


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