American Blvd / Commack Rd median real estate price is $643,934, which is more expensive than 49.3% of the neighborhoods in New York and 77.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in American Blvd / Commack Rd is currently $2,412, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 62.9% of New York neighborhoods.
American Blvd / Commack Rd is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brentwood, New York.
American Blvd / Commack Rd real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the American Blvd / Commack Rd 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 8.0% in American Blvd / Commack Rd. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the American Blvd / Commack Rd community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 41.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
In the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood has more South American and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.0% of this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry and 12.6% have Dominican ancestry.
American Blvd / Commack Rd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 65.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (46.3%) than are found in 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood in Brentwood are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.0% 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 American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood, 30.7% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.4%), and 20.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 65.9% of households. Some people also speak English (19.2%).
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 American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood in Brentwood, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as South American (16.0%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report Asian roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (12.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.9%), among others. In addition, 46.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 American Blvd / Commack Rd neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.2%) 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 (24.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.