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Real Estate Prices & Overview

E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd median real estate price is $157,557, which is less expensive than 78.6% of New Mexico neighborhoods and 85.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd is currently $908, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.1% of New Mexico neighborhoods.

E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 25.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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

One of the unique characteristics of the E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America. The E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (74.3%) than found in 98.9% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 55.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% 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 E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood in Alamogordo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 74.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.9% 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 E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood, 34.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 12.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

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 E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Italian.

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 E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood in Alamogordo, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (55.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Asian roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in E 9th St / N White Sands Blvd neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.8%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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