Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave median real estate prices are $331,064, which is more expensive than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey and 80.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave are currently $1,805, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 88.7% of the neighborhoods in New Jersey.

Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Edison, New Jersey.

Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1994. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

In Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave, the current vacancy rate is 1.3%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 98.3% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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.

Did you know that the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood has more Asian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 2.3% have South American ancestry.

Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Gujarati, which is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood. In the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.3% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas. What is also interesting to note, is that the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (53.0%) than are found in 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

If knowledge is power, then imagine the cumulative power of one neighborhood where many of the adults have earned an advanced degree, such as a Masters, law degree, medical degree, or even a Ph.D. This is certainly the case in the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood, where 31.7% have earned an advanced degree. Compare that to the average neighborhood in America, where just 8.4% of adults have completed a post-graduate degree, and you can see why this neighborhood is a stand out. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher rate of adults with an advanced degree than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave 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 Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 27.5% 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 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America.

If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 19.9% of the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 96.1% of America's neighborhoods.

Executives, managers and professionals make up 59.1% of the workforce in the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood which, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is a higher proportion of such high-level people than is found in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America. For this reason, this neighborhood really stands out as unique.

In addition, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1994, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 89.8% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

Furthermore, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 74.9%, which is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so. With a real estate vacancy rate of only 1.3%, the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.

Also of note, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in shear abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 25.2% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

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 Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood in Edison 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 93.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% of U.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 Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood, 59.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 18.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.2%), and 9.8% 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 Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood in Edison, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (49.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.2%) , and residents who report Italian roots (3.9%) , and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.5%) , along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 53.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood is English, spoken by 37.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include South Asian languages, Hindi (which is the official language of India), Spanish and Gujarati (native to the Indian state of Gujarat).

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 Kilmer Rd / Brunswick Ave neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% 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 (27.5%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (63.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (19.9%) and 11.2% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.