Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke median real estate prices are $374,557, which is more expensive than 55.8% of the neighborhoods in New York and 86.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke are currently $1,315, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in New York.

Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Elmont, New York.

Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.

Real estate vacancies in Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke are 5.9%, which is lower than one will find in 67.1% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke 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 Elmont, the Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Did you know that the Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood has more Haitian and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 8.0% have South American ancestry.

Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Hindi, which is the official language of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% 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 Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (43.1%) than are found in 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood in Elmont are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% 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 57.7% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the shear diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations. In the Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood, 31.2% 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.8%), and 20.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

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 Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood in Elmont, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (13.2%) , and residents who report West Indian roots (9.2%) , and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (8.0%) , along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.8%), among others. In addition, 43.1% 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 Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood is English, spoken by 46.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, South Asian languages, Hindi (which is the official language of India) and Italian.

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 Meacham Ave / Hempstead Tpke neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (63.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (9.0%) and 8.8% 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.