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Real Estate Prices & Overview

McKinley median real estate price is $209,006, which is less expensive than 88.1% of Minnesota neighborhoods and 78.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in McKinley is currently $1,661, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 52.5% of Minnesota neighborhoods.

McKinley is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

McKinley 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 McKinley neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 7.0% in McKinley. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 52.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Also, in the McKinley neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 26.3% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the McKinley neighborhood buck this trend. 22.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The McKinley neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 60.6% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Diversity

Did you know that the McKinley neighborhood has more South American and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.4% of this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry and 3.1% have Jamaican ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 McKinley neighborhood in Minneapolis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.9% 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 McKinley neighborhood, 34.7% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.9%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the McKinley neighborhood is English, spoken by 68.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 McKinley neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (17.4%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report German roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.9%), among others. In addition, 20.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 McKinley neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (62.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (51.0%) 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 (26.3%) and 17.6% of residents also ride the bus 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.


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