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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa median real estate price is $380,244, which is more expensive than 46.1% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 52.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa is currently $2,422, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 56.8% of Florida neighborhoods.

Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Apopka, Florida.

Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa 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 occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa 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.

In Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa, the current vacancy rate is 0.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 92.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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.

People

Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.

Diversity

Did you know that the Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 5.0% have Jamaican ancestry.

Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood in Apopka are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.8% 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 Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood, 34.9% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.6%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood is English, spoken by 68.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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 Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood in Apopka, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.7%), among others. In addition, 17.4% 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 Piedmont Lakes / The Oaks Of Wekiwa neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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