Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr median real estate prices are $132,602, which is more expensive than 66.0% of the neighborhoods in South Carolina and 40.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr are currently $673, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 75.2% of the neighborhoods in South Carolina.

Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr 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 single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 25.0%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by seasonal homes (such as vacation areas), and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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 Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Hebrew at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods.

In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood. A whopping 45.8% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.

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 Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood in Myrtle Beach are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% 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 75.6% 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 Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood, 42.7% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.3%), and 12.6% 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 Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood in Myrtle Beach, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (8.1%) , and residents who report German roots (7.9%) , and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.1%) , along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

The most common language spoken in the Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.4%).

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 Dick Pond Rd / Rodney Dr neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.