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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta median real estate price is $1,072,565, which is more expensive than 68.5% of the neighborhoods in California and 90.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta is currently $1,765, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 93.4% of California neighborhoods.

Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in La Quinta, California.

Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 28.2%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 93.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (25.3%). This can occur in 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. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.5% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood has more Slovak and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.5% have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary 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 Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood in La Quinta are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% 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 Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood, 40.7% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.3%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.0%).

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 Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood in La Quinta, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report German roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 11.7% 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 Rancho la Quinta / Lake La Quinta neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.1%) . 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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