Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift median real estate price is $78,735, which is less expensive than 97.1% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift is currently $1,157, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 87.9% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.
Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.
Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift has a 15.1% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 78.2% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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.
The Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (59.4%) than found in 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood has more Lebanese and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 16.1% have Polish ancestry.
Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.2% 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 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood in Vandergrift are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 59.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.7% of U.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 Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.2%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (6.2%).
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 Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood in Vandergrift, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (16.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 Vandergrift Heights / West Vandergrift neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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.