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Real Estate Prices & Overview

N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave median real estate price is $661,138, which is less expensive than 60.4% of California neighborhoods and 18.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave is currently $2,589, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 73.4% of California neighborhoods.

N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Compton, California.

N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave, the current vacancy rate is 3.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 81.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When 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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.2% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 67.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 80.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

The Neighbors

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 N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood in Compton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% 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 N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood, 41.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 15.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 80.3% of households. Some people also speak English (19.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood in Compton, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (67.5%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.8%), and residents who report African roots (3.8%). In addition, 32.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 N Matthisen Ave / W Rosecrans Ave neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (16.8%) . 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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