Foster Park median real estate price is $269,986, which is more expensive than 43.4% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 32.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Foster Park is currently $1,454, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 70.9% of Illinois neighborhoods.
Foster Park is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Chicago, Illinois.
Foster Park real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to large (four, five or more 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 Foster Park neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
In Foster Park, the current vacancy rate is 2.8%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 80.3% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Foster Park 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 Chicago, the Foster Park neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Foster Park neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.6% 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 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Foster Park neighborhood has more Haitian and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 6.5% have Jamaican ancestry.
Foster Park is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Foster Park neighborhood in Chicago are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% 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 Foster Park neighborhood, 33.9% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.4%), and 16.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Foster Park neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Some people also speak French (4.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Foster Park neighborhood in Chicago, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (3.0%).
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 Foster Park neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (53.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (9.3%) and 6.4% 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.