Allens Crossroads / Van Meter median real estate price is $296,971, which is more expensive than 54.9% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and 39.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Allens Crossroads / Van Meter is currently $1,224, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 83.1% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.
Allens Crossroads / Van Meter is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania.
Allens Crossroads / Van Meter 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 owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 7.9% in Allens Crossroads / Van Meter. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 48.5% 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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood stands out by having 91.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all American neighborhoods.
Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood may actually hold the key. 69.3% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood has more Croatian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 3.9% have Slovak ancestry.
Allens Crossroads / Van Meter is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood in Belle Vernon are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.5% 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 Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood, 53.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.9%), and 7.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (15.0%).
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 Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood in Belle Vernon, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.6%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (11.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.8%), among others.
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 Allens Crossroads / Van Meter neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.