North Avenue Historic District median real estate price is $531,649, which is more expensive than 37.9% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 67.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in North Avenue Historic District is currently $2,925, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 67.6% of New Jersey neighborhoods.
North Avenue Historic District is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Plainfield, New Jersey.
North Avenue Historic District real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
In North Avenue Historic District, the current vacancy rate is 2.8%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 80.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in North Avenue Historic District is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the North Avenue Historic District (65.9%) than in 100.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, if your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 3.4% of residents in the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 96.5% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 59.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.8% of American neighborhoods.
Furthermore, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
100.0% of the real estate in the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 70.3% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood buck this trend. 56.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood about it; they already know. 23.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.6% of the adult residents in the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 North Avenue Historic District neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (56.5%) than are found in 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry.
North Avenue Historic District is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 77.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 North Avenue Historic District neighborhood in Plainfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 49.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.9% 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 North Avenue Historic District neighborhood, 59.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 18.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (10.7%), and 8.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the North Avenue Historic District neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 77.1% of households. Some people also speak English (12.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 North Avenue Historic District neighborhood in Plainfield, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.1%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report South American roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (1.6%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.3%), among others. In addition, 56.5% 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 North Avenue Historic District neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.9%) carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (20.3%) and 6.8% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. Despite relying on the automobile to get to work, residents of this neighborhood share the ride more than most neighborhoods, reducing traffic, pollution, and saving money.
