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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres median real estate price is $292,322, which is more expensive than 56.1% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 41.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres is currently $1,700, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 57.4% of Illinois neighborhoods.

Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Northlake, Illinois.

Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres 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 owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Real estate vacancies in Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres are 5.2%, which is lower than one will find in 65.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

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 Northlake, the Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of note, 60.8% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Diversity

Did you know that the Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood has more Brazilian and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 63.2% have Mexican ancestry.

Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 60.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.8% 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 Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood in Northlake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 60.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.0% 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 Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood, 39.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.4%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 60.7% of households. Some people also speak English (35.4%).

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 Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood in Northlake, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Polish roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.3%), among others. In addition, 33.1% 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 Franklin Manor / Longfield Acres neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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