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Real Estate Prices & Overview

W 6th St / S Catalina St median real estate price is $754,453, which is more expensive than 44.3% of the neighborhoods in California and 84.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in W 6th St / S Catalina St is currently $3,208, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 45.6% of California neighborhoods.

W 6th St / S Catalina St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Los Angeles, California.

W 6th St / S Catalina St 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 mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the W 6th St / S Catalina St 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.

W 6th St / S Catalina St has a 10.3% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 63.0% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Los Angeles, the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 97.0% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.

In addition, the real estate in the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 96.1% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 99.2% of American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 43,860 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.1% of the nation's neighborhoods.

Also of note, 87.4% of the real estate in the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.

Modes of Transportation

If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 3.9% of residents in the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 97.2% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.

Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

One of the most interesting things about the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 51.0% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood buck this trend. 20.3% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood has more Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 51.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry.

W 6th St / S Catalina St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 23.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (53.3%) than are found in 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood in Los Angeles are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood, 57.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 19.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.5%), and 10.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

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 W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood is English, spoken by 37.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Chinese, Spanish and African languages.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood in Los Angeles, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (51.3%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), among others. In addition, 53.3% 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 W 6th St / S Catalina St neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (50.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (10.9%) and 10.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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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