Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta median real estate price is $525,044, which is more expensive than 76.6% of the neighborhoods in Georgia and 67.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta is currently $2,090, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 53.0% of Georgia neighborhoods.
Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Marietta, Georgia.
Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four 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 Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta has a 11.4% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 67.3% 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.
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.
Did you know that the Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood has more Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry.
Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% 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 Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood in Marietta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.2% 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 Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood, 53.9% 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.1%), and 5.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood is English, spoken by 68.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.9%).
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 Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood in Marietta, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report German roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.5%), along with some South American ancestry residents (3.7%), among others. In addition, 15.7% 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 Forest Hills / Downtown Marietta neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.3%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.