Found within zip codes: 38104, 38126
Popular real estate near Memphis, TN (Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave)
Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave median real estate prices are $113,907, which is more expensive than 37.8% of the neighborhoods in Tennessee and 26.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
Average rental prices in Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave are currently $195, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price then 98.3% of Tennessee neighborhoods.
Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bellevue Blvd / Lamar 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 single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 29.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 94.3% 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.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood CharacteristicsWhen you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Notable & Unique: PeopleSingle parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood about it; they already know. 38.6% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
In addition, one of the unique characteristics of the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America. The Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.1%) than found in 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Notable & Unique: Modes of TransportationIn the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 31.1% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Notable & Unique: OccupationsThere are more people living in the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (56.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Notable & Unique: Car OwnershipAmerican households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood buck this trend. 52.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Notable & Unique: DiversityDid you know that the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.
The Neighbors The Neighbors: IncomeThere 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 Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood in Memphis are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors: OccupationsA 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 Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood, 43.9% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 15.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The Neighbors: Ethnicity / AncestryBoston'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 Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood in Memphis, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (3.1%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.5%) , and residents who report African roots (2.5%) , and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.6%) .
The Neighbors: LanguagesThe most common language spoken in the Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.
Getting to WorkEven 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 Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (46.3%) 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 (31.1%) and 8.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.
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| RENTAL PRICE | Very low cost relative to TN, very low cost relative to the nation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK, FEEL, & CHARACTER | DETAILS |
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| THE SETTING | Urban (based on population density) |
| TYPE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Complexes/high rise apartments, some Single-family homes and a few Small apartment buildings |
| SIZE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Small dwellings (1, 2, or no bedrooms), some Medium-sized dwellings (3 or 4 bedrooms) and a few Large dwellings (4 or 5 bedrooms) |
| AGE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Well established older homes (Built 1940 - 1969), some Historic homes (Built 1939 or earlier) and some Established but not old (Built 1970 – 1994) |
| HOMEOWNERSHIP | Mostly Renters |
| SPECIAL CHARACTER | Mostly Hip & Trendy and Walkable |
| THE NEIGHBORS | DETAILS |
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| AGE & LIFESTYLE | Mostly Mixed ages and some Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single) |
| EDUCATION LEVEL | Rating: 3 (5 is average for the U.S., 10 is most educated) |
| INCOME | Low income (among the 15% lowest income communities in America) |
| OCCUPATIONS | Mostly Sales & Service workers, some Manufacturing & Laborers, some Clerical, assistants & technical support and some Executive, managerial & professional |
| ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY | Mostly Black, some White (non-Hispanic) and some Irish ancestry |
| LANGUAGES | Mostly English speaking and some Spanish speaking |
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BRUCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
581 SOUTH BELLEVUE BLVD, MEMPHIS, TN 38104 (901) 416-4495 |
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BELLEVUE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
575 SOUTH BELLEVUE, MEMPHIS, TN 38104 (901) 416-4488 |
06-09 |
* Depending on where you live in this neighborhood, your children may attend these schools or other schools outside the neighborhood. Always check with your local school department to determine which schools your children may attend based on your specific address and your child's grade-level.
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| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 7.0 | 68.2 |
| BLACK (%) | 85.0 | 24.3 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 6.5 | 5.5 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 74.9 | 53.1 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $5,615 | $613,732,000 | 54.6 |
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| STUDENT | $567 | $61,934,000 | 5.5 |
| STAFF | $593 | $64,785,000 | 5.8 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $113 | $12,362,000 | 1.1 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $662 | $72,393,000 | 6.4 |
| OPERATION | $959 | $104,872,000 | 9.3 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $219 | $23,986,000 | 2.1 |
| OTHER | $241 | $26,393,000 | 2.3 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $3,355 | $366,725,000 | 32.6 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $1,315 | $143,772,000 | 12.8 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $10,286 | $1,124,229,000 | 100.0 |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 9.4 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 56.1 |
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| SINCE 1990 | 71.37% | 2.63% | 2 | 2 |
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Bellevue Blvd / Lamar Ave neighborhood appreciation rates are for subscribers only. Memphis, TN appreciation rates (city-wide averages) are open to all visitors.
National Median 4.0
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in Memphis 1 in 62
in Tennessee 1 in 163
National Median 29.4
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in Memphis 1 in 15
in Tennessee 1 in 27
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