E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd median real estate prices are $166,973, which is more expensive than 80.4% of the neighborhoods in Michigan and 54.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd are currently $871, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 86.9% of the neighborhoods in Michigan.

E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Grand Ledge, Michigan.

E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Real estate vacancies in E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd are 5.7%, which is lower than one will find in 68.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd 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 Grand Ledge, the E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Did you know that the E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood has more Finnish and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 2.8% have French ancestry.

If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 10.7% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Michigan.

There are two complimentary 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 E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood in Grand Ledge are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 89.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.4% 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 80.8% 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 E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood, 48.6% 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 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.9%), and 14.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

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 E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood in Grand Ledge, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%) , and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%) , and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.3%) , along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

The most common language spoken in the E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households.

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 E Saginaw Hwy / Nixon Rd neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.5%) 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.