Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes median real estate price is $701,307, which is less expensive than 67.3% of California neighborhoods and 20.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes is currently $3,622, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 61.1% of the neighborhoods in California.
Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Concord, California.
Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes 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 occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes, the current vacancy rate is 0.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 92.5% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes 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 Concord, the Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 16.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
In the Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood, 9.4% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood has more Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry.
Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% 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 Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood in Concord are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.2% 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 66.6% of America'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 Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood, 34.6% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.1%), and 7.7% 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 Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood is English, spoken by 48.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood in Concord, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Arab roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.3%), among others. In addition, 31.7% 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 Sunshine Estates / Meadow Homes neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (25.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (16.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (60.1%) 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 (13.3%) and 9.4% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.