W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave median real estate price is $1,117,193, which is more expensive than 67.9% of the neighborhoods in California and 92.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave is currently $2,604, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 71.3% of California neighborhoods.
W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Alhambra, California.
W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Real estate vacancies in W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave are 4.1%, which is lower than one will find in 72.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
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 Alhambra, the W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood has more Asian and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 62.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 3.3% have Iranian ancestry.
W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 44.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (57.8%) than are found in 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood in Alhambra are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.8% 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 W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood, 34.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood is Chinese, spoken by 44.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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 W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood in Alhambra, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (62.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (25.9%), and residents who report Irania roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.1%), among others. In addition, 57.8% 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 W Ramona Rd / S Curtis Ave neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.