Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley median real estate price is $515,024, which is more expensive than 69.2% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 71.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley is currently $1,858, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 76.7% of Florida neighborhoods.
Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lakeland, Florida.
Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 25.8%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood stands out by having 92.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of all American neighborhoods.
The Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood is considered a solid choice for executive lifestyles. NeighborhoodScout's analysis ranks it as better than 91.6% of Florida neighborhoods for executive living, based on the wealthy, educated professionals, executives, and managers who choose to reside here, the spacious homes that are prominent features of the real estate in the neighborhood, and the high real estate appreciation rates found here relative to other neighborhoods in the state. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates.
Did you know that the Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood has more Scottish and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 2.6% have Greek ancestry.
Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood in Lakeland are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.1% 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 72.4% 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 Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood, 51.8% 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 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.6%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
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 Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood in Lakeland, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (6.6%), among others. In addition, 10.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Lake Hollingsworth / Lake Bentley neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (92.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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Raw data sources: National Agriculture Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Federal Housing Finance Agency, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Geological Service, American Community Survey.
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Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: American Community Survey, U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Education, 50 state departments of education, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies, Federal Housing Finance Agency, U.S. Geological Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: 2020 (latest available). Updated annually. Please note: Unemployment data updated November 2022.
Methodology: Unlike standardly available Census demographics, NeighborhoodScout uses dozens of custom models to transform 8.5 million raw demographic data elements from government sources into proprietary indices and insights…. Read more about Scout's Demographic Data
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Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2021 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2022 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2022 data?
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| School Details | Grades | Quality Rating Compared to FL* | Quality Rating Compared to Nation* |
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Lakeland Senior High School
726 Hollingsworth Rd Lakeland, FL 33801 |
09-12 | ||
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Southwest Middle School
2815 Eden Pkwy Lakeland, FL 33803 |
06-08 | ||
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Cleveland Court Elementary School
328 Edgewood Dr E Lakeland, FL 33803 |
KG-05 | ||
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Crystal Lake Elementary School
700 Galvin Dr Lakeland, FL 33801 |
PK-05 | ||
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Dixieland Elementary School
416 Ariana St Lakeland, FL 33803 |
KG-05 | ||
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Philip O'brien Elementary School
1225 Lime St E Lakeland, FL 33801 |
PK-05 | ||
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Crystal Lake Middle School
2410 Crystal Lake Dr N Lakeland, FL 33801 |
06-08 | ||
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Oscar J. Pope Elementary School
2730 Maine Ave Lakeland, FL 33801 |
PK-05 | ||
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George W. Jenkins Senior High School
6000 Lakeland Highlands Rd Lakeland, FL 33813 |
09-12 | ||
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Sleepy Hill Middle School
2215 Sleepy Hill Rd Lakeland, FL 33810 |
06-08 | ||
| * 10 is highest | |||
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Raw data sources: U.S. Department of Education, 50 state departments of education, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dow Jones S&P, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies, Federal Housing Finance Agency, U.S. Bureau of the Census, American Community Survey, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Geological Service, U.S. Department of Transportation, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics, Federal Highway Administration, National Agricultural Statistics.
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