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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Yerba Buena median real estate price is $1,034,117, which is more expensive than 72.8% of the neighborhoods in California and 93.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Yerba Buena is currently $845, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 99.9% of California neighborhoods.

Yerba Buena is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in San Francisco, California.

Yerba Buena real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to large (four, five or more 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 Yerba Buena 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.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.6% in Yerba Buena. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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 San Francisco, the Yerba Buena neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The Yerba Buena neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the United States. In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Yerba Buena neighborhood also stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, one of the most interesting things about the Yerba Buena neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 57.5% 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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

In the Yerba Buena neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 37.5% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.

Also, more people in Yerba Buena choose to walk to work each day (42.7%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Real Estate

The Yerba Buena 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 96.4% 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, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Yerba Buena neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 93.5% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

Furthermore, the Yerba Buena neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 43,160 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 98.1% of the nation's neighborhoods.

Occupations

The Yerba Buena neighborhood has a higher proportion of its residents employed as executives, managers and professionals than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In fact, 79.2% of the employed people here make a living as an executive, a manager, or other professional. With such a high concentration, this truly shapes the character of this neighborhood, and to a large degree defines what this neighborhood is about.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Yerba Buena neighborhood buck this trend. 35.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Yerba Buena neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (73.3%) than are found in 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Yerba Buena neighborhood has more Asian and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 1.7% have Lebanese ancestry.

Yerba Buena is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 41.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% 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 Yerba Buena neighborhood in San Francisco are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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 Yerba Buena neighborhood, 79.2% 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 10.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (9.7%).

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 Yerba Buena neighborhood is Chinese, spoken by 41.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region), Spanish and Russian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Yerba Buena neighborhood in San Francisco, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (63.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.5%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 73.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Yerba Buena neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (42.7%) hop out the door and walk to work to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (6.6%) and 6.3% of residents also drive alone in a private automobile for their daily commute. This is a special neighborhood for the number of people who walk to work. Combining exercise, low cost, and reduced pollution, plus the chance to see your neighbors, walking to work is fairly uncommon in America but likely to increase as people try to reduce their dependence on automobiles, and this neighborhood offers that opportunity today.


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