24th Ave / Benson Ave median real estate price is $1,460,386, which is more expensive than 87.7% of the neighborhoods in New York and 96.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in 24th Ave / Benson Ave is currently $2,923, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 52.7% of New York neighborhoods.
24th Ave / Benson Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brooklyn, New York.
24th Ave / Benson Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) small apartment buildings and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.6% in 24th Ave / Benson Ave. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 45.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Three-deckers, duplexes, old Victorian homes cut up into apartments. Independent stores on the corner selling pizza. These are some of the hallmarks of neighborhoods with lots of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. The 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood really stands out in this regard, however, as it is dominated by such small apartment buildings more than nearly any other neighborhood in America. This is a stunning visual and lifestyle example of this type of neighborhood. In fact, 59.3% of the real estate here are small 2, 3, or 4 unit apartment buildings, which is a higher proportion than found in 99.2% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, the 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 53,848 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.6% of the nation's neighborhoods. Even if you drive or take transit to your place of employment, many people enjoy being able to walk in their neighborhood. What many people don't realize is that most of America's premier vacation locations are also very walkable. The 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood is among the top 5% of American neighborhoods in terms of walkability.
In the 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood, 32.1% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (14.7% ride the bus) than 97.2% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.
Did you know that the 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 59.6% have Asian ancestry.
24th Ave / Benson Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 49.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% 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 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (57.8%) than are found in 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood in Brooklyn are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.4% of America'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 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood, 43.2% 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 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 17.3% 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 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood is Chinese, spoken by 49.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish, Russian and Italian.
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 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (59.6%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Ukrainian roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (2.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 57.8% 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 24th Ave / Benson Ave neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (32.1%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (26.4%) and 14.7% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. This neighborhood is distinguished by the high number of residents who take the train to work each day, which can be a very good way to get to work at a lower cost and with less pollution.