Willow Park median real estate price is $273,155, which is more expensive than 49.4% of the neighborhoods in North Dakota and 33.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Willow Park is currently $1,060, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 67.1% of North Dakota neighborhoods.
Willow Park is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fargo, North Dakota.
Willow Park real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Willow Park neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Willow Park, the current vacancy rate is 1.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 86.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Willow 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 Fargo, the Willow Park neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the most interesting things about the Willow Park neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 58.7% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Willow Park neighborhood buck this trend. 22.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
86.1% of the real estate in the Willow Park neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
Did you know that the Willow Park neighborhood has more Norwegian and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 29.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 23.8% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Willow Park is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. In the Willow Park neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.0% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
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 Willow Park neighborhood in Fargo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.3% 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 73.6% 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 Willow Park neighborhood, 34.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.7%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Willow Park neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.4% of households. Some people also speak African languages (2.4%).
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 Willow Park neighborhood in Fargo, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (29.5%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (23.8%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.3%), among others. In addition, 23.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Willow Park neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (61.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.