Braeburn / Edgecliff median real estate price is $301,292, which is more expensive than 53.4% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and 39.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Braeburn / Edgecliff is currently $1,181, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 86.0% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.
Braeburn / Edgecliff is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania.
Braeburn / Edgecliff 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 owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Braeburn / Edgecliff, the current vacancy rate is 1.7%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.5% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Braeburn / Edgecliff is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Lower Burrell, the Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Braeburn / Edgecliff 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 Braeburn / Edgecliff community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood has more Slovak and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 22.2% have Italian ancestry.
Braeburn / Edgecliff is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.7% 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 98.4% 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 Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood in Lower Burrell are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.4% 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood, 40.8% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.7%).
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 Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood in Lower Burrell, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (22.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (21.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (14.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
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 Braeburn / Edgecliff neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.5%) 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.