Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue median real estate price is $124,877, which is less expensive than 92.6% of Arizona neighborhoods and 86.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue is currently $1,188, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 96.8% of Arizona neighborhoods.
Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Tucson, Arizona.
Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue 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 single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue 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 Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue, the current vacancy rate is 2.3%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 83.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue 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 Tucson, the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There are more people living in the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (58.5%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Astoundingly, the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Tucson neighborhood.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.2% of the adult residents in the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 83.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 73.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.0% 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 Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood in Tucson are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.7% 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 Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood, 41.5% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.1%), and 18.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 73.9% of households. Some people also speak English (24.8%).
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 Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood in Tucson, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (83.9%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 33.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Drexel Park / Cherry Avenue neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (69.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (22.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.