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Real Estate Prices & Overview

57th Ave / 84th St median real estate price is $921,644, which is more expensive than 69.2% of the neighborhoods in New York and 88.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in 57th Ave / 84th St is currently $3,796, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 70.7% of the neighborhoods in New York.

57th Ave / 84th St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Queens, New York.

57th Ave / 84th St 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 57th Ave / 84th St 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 8.5% in 57th Ave / 84th St. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 45.6% 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.

Modes of Transportation

If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 49.8% of the 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 99.4% of America's neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood could be your paradise. With 24.4% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 4.7% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

In addition, the 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 30,678 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 97.0% of the nation's neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood buck this trend. 29.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood has more Asian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 10.9% have South American ancestry.

57th Ave / 84th St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 39.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (56.8%) than are found in 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood in Queens are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.8% 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 79.3% 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 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.8%), and 19.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood is Chinese, spoken by 39.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).

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 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood in Queens, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (63.3%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Native American roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.0%), among others. In addition, 56.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 57th Ave / 84th St neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (59.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (49.8%) take the train to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (26.6%) and 5.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.


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