Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway median real estate price is $257,398, which is less expensive than 84.5% of Maryland neighborhoods and 69.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway is currently $1,560, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 93.6% of Maryland neighborhoods.
Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) townhomes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway has a 11.1% 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.
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 Baltimore, the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Also, if your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 5.7% of residents in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
Finally, in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood, 12.4% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are more people living in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (45.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
The Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in the United States. The Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (83.8%) than found in 99.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
In addition, whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood has more single mother households than 97.8% 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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood buck this trend. 66.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood could be your paradise. With 54.1% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 1.0% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.
In addition, 97.5% of the real estate in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.
Furthermore, the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 88.0% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.
Did you know that the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 6.0% have Jamaican ancestry.
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 Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood in Baltimore are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 83.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.5% 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 Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood, 54.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.5%), and 7.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households.
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 Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood in Baltimore, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (16.5%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (6.0%).
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 Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (34.9%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (22.4%) and 12.4% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the Pleasant View Gardens / Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood of Baltimore by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.
