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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Derby median real estate price is $324,761, which is less expensive than 79.6% of Colorado neighborhoods and 56.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Derby is currently $2,272, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 58.8% of Colorado neighborhoods.

Derby is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Commerce City, Colorado.

Derby real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Derby neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.9% in Derby. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 54.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

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.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the Derby neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 48.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Derby 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 46.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.7% of American neighborhoods.

People

Of particular note, 4.0% of the people in the Derby neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Diversity

Did you know that the Derby neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Derby neighborhood in Commerce City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 32.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A 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 sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Derby neighborhood, 46.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Derby neighborhood is English, spoken by 52.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (47.3%).

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 Derby neighborhood in Commerce City, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (51.6%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.7%), along with some British ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 14.8% 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 Derby neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (6.0%) . 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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